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Savings & investments
Archives for January 2008
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How safe are smaller building societys- over £35,000.00?
With the big banks e.g. Natwest, HSBC etc it is extremly low risk that the bank will fold. Therefore your money is pretty safe. Q. In real terms is this low risk similar with the smaller building societys such as 'Skipton Building Society' and other small ones? (I'm just assuming Skipton is small) Providing the bank /…
Fixed rates to stay up a while longer?
Although banks and building societies have mostly announced cuts in their day-to-day savings range of about 0.25% they don't seem to be cutting fixed rates immediately. Yorkshire Building Society, for instance, has rolled-over its ISA rate of 6.35% for another month. Halifax is still offering upto 6.55% on larger ISA…
HELP! alliance and leicester direct saver Interest
Hi I have a direct saver account with A&L and when i set up the account i opted for interest payments to be paid into my direct saver account. Now i want the interst paid to my back account how do i change this??:confused: I looked on ther website and noting about how to do this. Please Could someone help me. I presume if…
keep and rent flat or sell?
hi, please help me decide what to do with my flat. I moved to new house and kept my previous property. It is a flat in centre of town in private development. There is no mortgage on the property and it is currently just sitting there costing me GBP 1,200 a year in service charges. The flat is 1/2 furnished as I left…
Trading in US Shares
Sadly I know nothing about companies and stocks in the UK, however I'm fairly knowledgable about US tech companies (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Netgear, etc). I'd like to sink about £10,000 in various shares and see how I fair in about 12 months. That's where I got a bit stuck. It seems that it's not as simple as it sounds…
Halifax Web Saver
Halifax has reduced its interest rates by 0.25% effective of today. Happy New year 2008! :T
New Year's Resolution?
Happy New Year to everyone on the MSE boards. So what is your savings and/or investment New Year's resolution?
Bonds and Gilts in Unit Trusts - help?
Hi. Have been reading this forum for months now and thought it's time I should join. I have been looking at investing a largish lump sum in Unit Trusts through Hargreaves Lansdown. Have picked a rough allocation as below for hopefully some growth over several years (no income needed as of now). I'm 37 and a high rate tax…
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