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Save £12k in 2026 challenge (or any other amount to challenge yourself!)
Here are the details below of the savings challenge @enthusiasticsaver and I have been running this year and will continue to run next year. This is the new Challenge thread for savers in 2026. The aim is to get more people saving throughout the year and this thread gives a space for people to record and track their…
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The New Top Easy Access Savings Discussion Area
This thread is for discussion of the Easy Access Savings Guide A previous version of this thread which ran from Nov 2007 to June 2024 can be found here: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/596724/the-top-easy-access-savings-discussion-area/p1
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The Savings & Investments Sticky
FCA Unauthorised Firms and Individuals List The Top Instant Access Savings Discussion Area How much can you save? Share Dealing Discussion Area Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List! Top Child Trust Funds Article Discussion Area >
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Cahoot simple saver
Hi all, not sure if this has been said before, apologies if so. I opened a simple saver a couple of months ago, variable rate. Just noticed there was a new issue with a higher interest rate. Why doesn't Cahoot increase my variable rate to the new rate automatically? Instead and only because I keep a close watch on interest…
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The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread
Welcome to this thread The main purposes of this thread are two-fold: To provide a list of the top regular savers currently on offer To provide a place for all forum users to discuss regular saver accounts and ask any questions about them that you may have This thread is intended to complement Martin Lewis' article which…
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Should I use Aegon or Hargreaves Lansdown
My first thread, so hope you can offer some advice. I've recently retired due to a medical condition at the age of 62. I've also sold my company and have a reasonable amount of funds to keep me going until my pensions kick in. Whilst I have a basic understanding of investments such as stocks and shares and have dabbled a…
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Santander Edge Saver ended
I am looking to open another Santander Edge Saver account, please can someone remind me how to do this so I can open another ? I think the last time I did it was via the phone and wait for the account to be closed and reapplied?? Is this the way to do it or quicker to do it via chat bot, please?
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Currency Broker
I can't think of a more appropriate forum to put this on. We're about to transfer a reasonable sum of money abroad to buy a house. We're going to use a currency broker (Key Currency). Any ideas what checks we need to do to make the broker is legitimate and that we have contacted the company correctly and not been…
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Top Easy Access acs Ranked: Top of The Pots - **No Chat**
I've had a few suggestions/requests to start a separate 'No Chat' thread, as the ToTP list gets drowned in 'chat' in the 'Top Easy Access discussion' thread. The aim is to maintain an easy-to-find ranked list of the c.Top 10, available to open & manage online, Easy Access accounts, with links. The purpose of this thread is…
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Mortgage free, maybe? Now what?
On 30th Nov, this year, my 5 year fixed rate deal of 1.14% runs out on my current mortgage deal. The balance will be £24,400. The payment has been £822 a month. We have also been putting aside around £1200 a month into premium bonds that we've used for the annual 10% overpayment. This has also been building nicely and we…
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Passbook Savings Accounts
I have been helping in-laws sort out paperwork and bank stuff recently (PoA are in place but not enacted upon yet, we're not quite there yet). They used to have passbook savings accounts but these got replaced with cash cards and statements, but they don't use cash cards, paperwork get bagged up and stashed (not really…
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Easy Access rates going up
Why is it when the BoE announce a rate cut all the savings providers more of less cut their rates straight away. But when the BoE holds the rate for a few months, these savings providers start putting their rates up again. Why is this? I've just dropped a lump into Cahoot at the weekend @ 4.52 and I've noticed quite a few…
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Health is important with investing, not just wealth.
I was having a think about investing recently and even compared to 10-15 years ago we have never had so much advice and information at out fingertips regarding investing. Loads of online videos, forums, online journals and you can order investing books online as well. i remember in the early days of Youtube things were a…
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Mastercard Debit Card Transfer Declined
Ourselves (and our daughter) took advantage of the NS&I's Income Growth Bond (as recommended here). NS&I wanted the transactions via debit card. When we tried to do this via Mastercard (different people with different banks) the transfers were all declined (bearing in mind that it was to a government owned organisation).…
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The Cashback for Bank or Investment Accounts Discussion Thread
What's included in this list? This is a list of cashback offers that might be of interest to forum users, focusing on: * Savings accounts including ISAs; other bank accounts may be included too * Investments including pensions, but note there’s already a related thread on the Pensions board * Offers you can get in addition…
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Can I still get records of transactions through X-O?
When I had my shares with X-O (part of Jarvis) I bought three tranches of 100 shares in Carnival Corporation. I've found a record of the date and price paid for the first tranche and one of the others (I think the third but not sure), but not for the remaining one. I was a bit remiss with downloading statements! The…
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Cahoot Interest Payment Date
Hello - I opened a Simple Saver on 14 April and deposited £1 and chose monthly interest. On 6 July I deposited a large amount. As of today, no interest has been received since account opening. I am waiting for Cahoot to reply to a query I raised about this. Is it correct to think that the 14th of the month is the interest…
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The Cashback for Bank or Investment Accounts *No Chat*
This is the "No Chat" thread, please only post announcements and use the discussion thread for anything else Open and fund any Prosper savings or investment account with a minimum of £10,000 and get £100 when you keep it on the platform for at least six months across savings and investments.…
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Saving - Path to follow
Hi, I am a 52 yo male - I am employed, with a basic salary of £46,500.00 - I also obtain a profit related bonus, which is paid in December each year - this year it will amount to c.£9,000.00 I have a 1/3 share in my late Mother's apartment - this is currently being leased - unfortunately it's within a complex managed by…
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Transferring savings from Premium Bonds to Growth Bonds today.
I decided to transfer the majority of my Premium Bonds to a NS&I one year growth bond this morning via my NS&I online account- after reading Martin’s news about their competitive rates of interest. Very surprised that two hours later there’s no confirmation of any sort from NS&I about this transfer, so I phoned to check it…
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£10 e voucher for getting Yorkshire Building Society App - newbies only
I was glad I hadn`t downloaded the YBS App yet after receiving an email which offers an £10 e voucher for customers who haven`t downloaded the app. "Download, register and log in to our app for the first time by midnight 3 August 2026 and we'll treat you to a £10 e-voucher. Choose from over 200 stores. Terms and conditions…
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The Archived History Of Regular Savers Thread *** NO CHAT***
Welcome to this thread The main purposes of this thread are three-fold: * To provide a list of current and historic regular saver Ts&Cs. * To serve as an archive of when key changes to The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread and the accounts listed on it were made. * To serve as a defacto no-chat regular savers thread to…
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yougov.finance bribe
It's one of these almost-too-good-to-be-true stories, but it is true. First mentioned by @Bridlington1 in the Natwest Regular Saver thread, but I reckon this deserves its own thread as it could be of interest to those who have at least 10 current, credit card and savings accounts and not everyone reads the Natwest RS…