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Absolute savings newbie looking for help
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Take it slowly. You've got time. £500 a month means that you can save or invest £6000 a year.
This isn't enough to fill your ISA allowance, so even if ISA rates go up, you can move £9000 from your 'nest egg' in each year. You could even take advantage of the current accounts year round and move an amount in at the end to a Cash ISA to protect it for long term savings (although lump sum investments aren't likely to be a good fit for you, maybe regular smaller amounts).
We read a lot of books about investing before starting and got the fundamentals.0 -
It is just me clicking the spam button on these posts above?
Edit: they are gone now0
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