Journalist seeks case studies to appear in magazine

DonnaLFerguson

Hi,
I'm a freelance journalist and I've been given permission to post on MSE asking for people to help with a story I'm working on. You can see my name on the Companies/organisations/journalists with permission to post list.

Today, I need case studies for national magazine (Moneywise) feature to talk about their best and worst financial decisions.

You need to be willing to appear in print with their photograph.

Looking for really interesting, topical cases, for example:

Best financial decision...

- investing in Royal Mail shares
- getting a cheap tracker mortgage
- using MSE to get out of debt

Worst financial decision
- investing in bank stocks before the credit crunch
- putting money in Icesave


Stuff like that.


Please email me today with details of who you are and what your decision was. my email is donna.freelancer+media@gmail.com

Alternatively, you can follow me on Twitter: @DonnaLFerguson

Thanks
Donna

Reaper

It is interesting you listed "Icesave" under "worst financial decisions" considering everybody got their money back, and for those of us with fixed term accounts we continued to be paid the full interest for the full term which was way above anything available else post-crash.

Admittedly I had a sleepless night before the government confirmed everybodys savings would be protected, but it turned out well.

Archi_Bald

Agree, Reaper.

JohnRo

Worst financial decisions,

Not switching on to value and investment 25 years ago.

Getting involved with a commission hungry financial adviser.

Best financial decisions,

Getting involved with a competent financial adviser who helped to fix the wreckage.

MSE and starting to learn a little more about money, finance and DIY investment.

talexuser

Best, best, best ever decision, starting with peps in the early 90s, and investing most years, most to the max, with only small sidetracks into cash isas (since transferred to funds), everything still accumulated.

Worst ever? not selling Northern Rock before they went bust. They were free so suppose no different to before I had them, but sure different to them at their peak! :mad: :rotfl:

bigadaj

Reaper wrote: »

It is interesting you listed "Icesave" under "worst financial decisions" considering everybody got their money back, and for those of us with fixed term accounts we continued to be paid the full interest for the full term which was way above anything available else post-crash.

Admittedly I had a sleepless night before the government confirmed everybodys savings would be protected, but it turned out well.

Yes, I had the same thing with kaupthing, top rates paid and money refunded/ guaranteed so arguably the best sort of 'investment'.

BillJones

Best investment was most definitely spending the £10 to apply to Oxford, against the advice of my teachers (who were adamant that they did not accept people from schools such as ours).

Worst was holding on to the seven figure holding of bank stock which I was paid in 2007, and losing 95% of everything I'd accumulated.

PeacefulWaters

BillJones wrote: »

Best investment was most definitely spending the £10 to apply to Oxford, against the advice of my teachers (who were adamant that they did not accept people from schools such as ours).

Worst was holding on to the seven figure holding of bank stock which I was paid in 2007, and losing 95% of everything I'd accumulated.

Puts my £40k loss in perspective!

melbury

talexuser wrote: »

Worst ever? not selling Northern Rock before they went bust. They were free so suppose no different to before I had them, but sure different to them at their peak! :mad: :rotfl:

Me too, will never forgive that !!!!!! CEO who offloaded all his shares beforehand:mad: