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ISA Interest
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Premium Bonds shock
This thread is to discuss the following news story: Premium Bonds: 1 in 100 chance of beating inflation
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Saving Account - Monthly Interest
I am looking for a bank account that can fulfill this three bullet points: - Monthly Interest rate payment - No penalty for withdrawals - Highest possible interest rate Any suggestions? Many Thanks,
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your egg ISA is now out of date - with inferior interest
those who opened an Egg ISA more than a few weeks ago are stuck with an old Egg ISA account. now Egg have opened a new Egg ISA 2 with a "sizzling" higher interest account. http://new.egg.com/visitor/0,,3_54050--View_451,00.html old Egg ISA's cannot be converted to Egg ISA 2 - and in fact Egg ISA 2 does not accept…
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no idea what im doing....
ok im 23 years old live at home and is single...i have about 7k in a savings account..and 1200 in a 403b at work...i make about 1100 every 2 weeks and really only have a car payment,and cell phone bill,,,no credit cards...what the hell should i do lol?? put x amount away? but to where..I could use all the help i can…
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Maturing 10 year investment worth less than paid in
About 10 years ago I signed up for product provided by Lincoln Financial Group called a Maximum Savings Plan. This involved me investing £100 a month into buying unit trusts. It is due to mature at the end of April 2009 and I have been provided with the valuation as of March 2009. For an investment to date of £11,900 my…
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Help.i need advice on my investment bond
in 2007 i opened a distribution bond with legal & general ..i invested 20K was told this was low risk and in previous year the money increased. However because of the credit crunch the money i invested is now down to nearly 16K and if i take my money out its another 1K penalty charge. So now i'm in a dilema ..i'm out of…
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Student Loan into shares?
Hi! I'm a first year student, and have all of my loan (as fortunately I have some saving and my parents are paying for uni eductation). I'm looking at getting into shares, and was wondering whether it was a good idea to invest my student loan in them, or if it's a risky business? My logic is that at the moment with the…
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Bradford and Bingley vs Citibank
Hi all, long time reader first time poster here. So im deciding which bank to put my savings in (after an ISA of course). I have about 5k and was deciding between B&B and Citibank. I'm aware the citibank rate is slightly higher (2.76% to 2.5%, both with 1 year bonuses of abuot 1.4%) but is there any safety benefit to B&B,…
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Arrogant Chelsea!
:mad: Just spoke with one of the Chelsea BS "mortgage advisors" who informed me that the Society's SVR is still at 5.79% - just about the highest of any High Street SVRs. This is also the Society who has cut the least throughout the last hectic cutting of UK SVRs. He informed me that this was a decision taken at the…
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FTSE All-Share Tracker - Decent short term investment?
I'm looking for some advice regarding a short term investment. Having saved up my house deposit i'm looking to earn more interest than I would otherwise do in an ISA (I currently have the majority of my deposit split across various ISAs). However, I do have a lump sum upto £10k which is currently sitting in a high interest…
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Which market do you think will see the biggest recovery over the next 5 years?
So, what do you think? Which market will recover fastest? Where is the money going to be over the next 5 years?
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Egg Money's 4% gross pa - anyone tried this?
Just saw that if you have a positive balance on your Egg Money credit card then they'll pay 4% gross pa. Was wondering if anyone else had taken up this offer and are there any catches since it appears to be the best interest rate going at the moment. Thanks
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ING drop special rate on tsfrs from KE
In February, I accepted the special transfer rate from KE of 3.51% - of which 2.02% was the special guarantee. Now I have just received email from ING saying they are dropping this rate:- [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]For your savings account, recently transferred from Kaupthing Edge, the rate will be 2.02%…
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Saving for our daughters education...
Hello everyone! My wife and I have decided to start putting away some money to pay for our daughters future education needs. She's 11 months old and we thought of starting her savings on her 1st birthday. So far, quite simple... However, I was trying to figure out how to maximise our saving power when I got stuck! These…
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£3,000 savings
I have £3,000 I want to put into some type of savings. How about an ISA? If so what type of ISA. I may want to get at the money if an emergency arises, but I also want it to earn for me.:confused:
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Hargreaves Lansdown - your views pls
I'm thinking about investing through HL as I hear you dont have to pay them commission and at the end of each year they actually give you some money! Is this true? I currently use Funds Network to invest through. What would the advantage - if any - to go with HL? I'ld be interested to hear your experiences/knowledge of HL.
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B & B e-saver 7 gone T**s up
Logged into my e-saver account yesterday, the amounts in my account are kaput, my balance is showing 4k extra that shouldn't be there. I rang them and they said there is a glitch with the I.T and that it had affected other members balances, If you have this account check it then contact them
