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How do we invest £300k from house sale?
We are about to complete our house sale for £300k but we haven't yet found a property to buy. Where's the best and safest place to put our money until we need it to buy our new house? Thanks!
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Charity savings advice please
Hi I run a charity in the north east helping people with cancer. We currently have around £55k in a bond with Santander and the interest level is going down to 1% Britannia have a 1year fixed bond for 2.02% Can anyone suggest ways of getting a better return on this? We can fix it for up to 3 years
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Santander 123 account
We currently have a joint 123 account where we hold £20K. I see you can now have 2 123 accounts per person. Am I right in thinking that we can each have a separate sole 123 account, making 3 in total and £60,000 in savings so long as we meet the credit and DD criteria:question:
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Selling Shares
There doesn't seem to be much information from Money Saving Expert regarding selling shares. I have a few shares in four popular companies that I inherited. However, I need to find information on how to sell some of them, without incurring high costs. I just want to sell and do not wish to buy any new ones.
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Penny stocks
Does anyone no of a online broker that enables you to buy pennystocks? Currently use Halifax share dealing account Thanks
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LLoyds TSB shares
Hello My grandfather purchased me shares in TSB 20 odd years ago. They then changed to Lloyds TSB. Now TSB is back. What happens to my shares? Do they revert back to TSB?
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Property - inheritance tax
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I investment
How much investment would bring £500 a month return, in the current market.
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JLIF Open Offer...
I have received notification from John Laing Infrastructure Fund (JLIF) for 2 new shares per 5 ordinary. Obviously other JLIF holder have had this offer but I would welcome opinions. Is anyone here purchasing through this offer?
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Feedback on my proposed fund allocation for starting a pension
My employer's set up a "group personal" scheme ahead of the government deadline, and matches contributions up to 1% of annual salary. I've decided to go for it, and put a few % in myself. Over the year, about £3.5k to go in to the scheme. There is a default fund, and various "single fund solution portfolio" from the…
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Can i offset a loss on AIM
can I offset a loss I made on an AIM listed company, IF (and its a big IF) I were to exceed my CGT allowance for the year? If so, how long do I have to register the loss? Thanks
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£20k sitting fallow
I have £20k in my shares ISA uninvested (out of around £200k in total in the ISA). It's been sitting there a while and I want to invest it. Trouble is I don't really fancy any particular assets. I just topped on my Latin America and Indonesia ETFs, I have around £50k in general UK Equities, a the rest spread, US, Europe,…
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Regular Savings
I am in a fortunate position at the moment, but for family reasons, need to build up savings. For other reasons I don't want to do peer-to-peer or invest in property etc. i just want ordinary savings. My current savings are in a mix of banks & building societies. I have maximum ISAs and I have a "regular saver" with both…
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Investing Inheritence money
Hi .......My wife recently inherited some money following her mothers death. We are now in the fortunate position of being mortgage / debt free. We are seeing an IFA in the next couple of weeks and also a advisor from Legal and General about how to invest the remainder of the money. This amounts to about £150k and is…
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Any trading blogs worth following?
As above, are there any traders who blog/tweet their trades that are worth following?
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Brokers for selling certificated Swiss shares under PoA?
Hi. Apologies if this has already been asked. I had a quick look and didn't find anything relevant. I have Power of Attorney over my wife's affairs. She has a share certificate for some shares traded on the Swiss (Zurich) stock exchange. I want to sell the shares in order to tidy up her affairs but haven't been able to…
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Fund Classes
Is there any information available on what the various fund classes mean? For example, from SIPPdeal I can get Invesco Perpetual Global Smaller Companies as the standard retail version with a 1.72% charge, the No Trail version with a 1.22% charge and a Z version with a 0.97% charge. The standard versus the No Trail is…
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Junior trust account
Hi ! I am totally new to this and I've never posted on a forum before in my life so please excuse me if I do it completely wrong :mad: I really need some help...my daughter is due to receive some inheritance (11k) from her late father through the court (we were never married) and as she is only 14 it will go into a trust…
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Germany + Bus companies. £40 million to be raised on the Aim market
All about Germany and their 100 bus companies. May be an interesting investment for some. A British firm is to raise more than £40million on the Aim market next month to help make Germany's old-fashioned bus companies more efficient. Directors at Metropolitan European Transport are planning a stock market flotation to buy…
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Reasonable IFA commission
We have had an IFA for a number of years, who we have generally been happy with. I would just like some feedback on charges. We have a SL SIPP wrapper, the investment advice (through IFA) comes from Margetts. What are reasonable charges (initial and annual)? We pay by way of commission.
