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Best rates for 1 year bonds
Can any body tell me which banks are running the best fixed rate bonds for 1 year thanks
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Fixed rate Bonds question.
I am going to open a couple of fixed rate bonds. In your experience what would be longest you would take out a fixed rate bond for: Two,three,four or five years. I am not sure how long to go for as interest rates can only go up. Thank you for your time and answers.
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Chorley Santa Saver/ Paid up Share
Just a reminder to everyone who has the above accounts to withdraw thier money from the Paid up Share (nominated a/c) on the 26th of November. The paid up share a/c is only paying 0.10% gross but remember to leave £25 (MOB) in the account.
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Barclays Bond has matured but still has no access to the money! HELP!
9 months ago I opened a 9 month savings bond with Barclays and placed 6k in the bond. The bond matured on the 8th November 2009. Now, In the terms and conditions it stated that I would receive a letter from Barclays a few weeks before the bond matured to be offered a new bond or to say where I want my money to go and if…
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Jupiter Financial Opportunities
I've just read a letter on Fidelity stating that holders of the Jupiter Financial Opportunities Fund will have the ability to either: stick totally with the fund or move a proportion (or all) of their holdings to one or both of the new Jupiter Funds being launched in December: the Jupiter Absolute Return Fund and Jupiter…
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Betting on a lower gold price
Hi, What are the available investment vehicles for my SIPP and/or ISA to "bet" on a lower gold price? Can you direct me to a page where I can check all the available investments like covered warrants etc.? Thank you! DUS
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Abbey: dormant account, ID request
We have a joint Direct Saver (now what they term I think a 'legacy account') which hasn't had any transactions for some years, so wrote to Abbey at Bradford last week asking them to close it and send a cheque (made out in our joint names). We had both signed the letter. Just had the reply advising they're 'unable to…
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Halifax Reward has just matured - wrong interest!?
Hi, My year-long Halifax Web Saver Reward account has just matured. I was expecting it to pay the advertised 5% rate, but Ive just checked the balance and theyve only paid the .20% rate. I havnt broken any of their terms, so I dont know why theyve paid only a fraction of what it should have done. Has this happened to…
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AA Internet Extra (Issue 1) - 3.15% gross p.a. / AER (3.30% if £50,000+)
Hi Everybody, The AA have introduced this instant access account which has no strings except that the interest rate includes a 12 month introductory bonus and you have to link it to an account with a direct debit facility. Link: AA Internet Extra (Issue 1) I have never had an account with the AA although I understand that…
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Citibank savings acct - absolute SHAMBLES
At the beginning of November I applied for a Citibank savings account - it was listed in the Top Savings Accounts on this site. After applying online they sent me a welcome pack with a credit-card-like savings card and no fewer than three different PINs. Then had to activate the account by phone. Needless to say, this took…
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Is there an account that pays you interest on monthly basis
We have £50k in NS&I bonds- used to do well, but nought lately !!! Is there an account that we can put this money in and have a weekly/monthly return from the interest it will earn ?
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Anyone else had problems opening a Post Office Growth Bond?
I visited my local Post Office to open a Growth bond last month, handed over my cheque for £10000, they checked the form and all seemed good. I noticed that the cheque had been cashed but hadn't received a letter from them so it was on my 'to do' list for next week to give them a call and chase up my account number etc.…
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What to do with savings??
Hello I'm looking for some advice about some savings that I've got. We've been paying £500 into a fixed rate 5% Halifax account for the last year, so we should have about £6000 when it ends in Jan. I'm going to put £3600 into my cash ISA (is that the maximum that you can pay in??) but I'm not sure what to do with the other…
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loss of interest question
Hi, I'm thinking about a fixed bond and it has a 180 day loss of interest on early closure. How do you work this out please, just so that I understand. Say a 5 year bond, an investment of £10,000 and closed after 3 years. An interest rate of 5.3% This is a fictional bond but it is close to a couple I am interested in. I am…
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Cf Octopus absolute fund.
I bought this fund about a month ago and im down 6.5 percent and is graded as medium risk but seems to be more volitile than many high risk funds. I thought that this fund would have outperformed positively in volatile periods like this one . It started out well and made 60 percent in a very short period of a few months.It…
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Differences in historical share price data
Why does historical share price data vary between websites? For example, I bought some Shanks plc shares in June 2005. MSN Money lists the high/low/open/close values all between 108p-118p for that entire month. Yet via Yahoo Finance all the share price values are 140p+. The Yahoo site consistently has greater Shanks share…
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Portfolio Advice
Could you please offer your views (good and bad) on my portfolio. My ISA badly needs rebalanced. Bit of background. Married - no kids. Aged 38. Mortgage is 14k on a 180k house. Should pay off within 12 months. We had a few buy to let properties in various stages of years left to pay off - currently using the profit to pay…
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Shares or OEIC fund??
I'm debating whether to carry on dabbling in UK FTSE 100 shares or whether to buy into an OEIC fund which maybe deals globally or far east/asia?? Any thoughts/recommendations? My past experience with an OEIC wasnt good in that i could just as easily lost money myself without paying someone to do it for me !!
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10K to invest - please advise best options.
Hi I have 10K to invest, which i do not need access to and im just wondering if anyone could pleae advise me on best place to put it. I have 2 children so am wanting to put it away for them until they are older. Thanks for reading.
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Logging in via egg money manager
Hi, Just a quick post hopefully. For the last two days I have been unable to log in to my ABBEY account via EGG MONEY MANAGER. Just wondered if anyone else had same issue. Thanks., In addition - I am still unable to log into Coventry Building Society via EGG, This is beginning to do my head in!!!
