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Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List!
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Bridlington1 said:jameseonline said:t1redmonkey said:jameseonline said:
Like realistically who is going to ditch their 8% early (& get an additional payment in) to start a 6.5%, nah I'm letting the 8% finish then going 6.5% if still available.
regular savers are typically at their most profitable towards the end of their terms.
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thor said:Bridlington1 said:jameseonline said:t1redmonkey said:jameseonline said:
Like realistically who is going to ditch their 8% early (& get an additional payment in) to start a 6.5%, nah I'm letting the 8% finish then going 6.5% if still available.
regular savers are typically at their most profitable towards the end of their terms.
You are correct in stating that every pound saved whether in the first month or the last month will produce the same interest per unit time. However this wasn't what I meant by the ``profitability" of a regular saver.
What I meant by the ``profitability" of regular savers was how much extra interest am I getting on any given day by having the regular saver fully funded to date versus not having the regular saver at all (which I will also refer to as my ``net gain" below).
In this case if it is assumed that I have funds in an EA/notice/other regular saver account which I could drip-feed into a regular saver and that if I did not drip-feed the money into the regular saver they would remain in the EA account/other regular saver at a lower rate and the rates of each account remained constant throughout their terms, then if I maxed out the regular saver, my ``net gain" in interest per month would increase as the term of the regular saver progresses due to the fact that I would have more money in the regular saver paying a higher rate of interest than I'd be getting elsewhere.
Thus under these assumptions the regular saver would be at its most profitable towards the end of its term than it would nearer the start of it.
I used ``typically" because these assumptions are rarely fully met in practice and there are some instances when regular savers become less profitable as time goes on, e.g. when savings rates were rising I had a few fixed rate regular savers that got overtaken by EA accounts before the end of their terms, which meant that their profitability turned negative for me. But generally I've found regular savers to be at their ``most profitable" towards the end of their terms, the Nationwide 8% RS being one of them.7 -
happybagger said:SRBS Regular Saver
It doesn't appear there is a planned reduction in the rate on this account.
"The impacted accounts are the Instant Access Cash ISA, Pullman Instant Access and Pullman Monthly, whose rates have reduced by 0.10%. Additionally, the 120-day Notice Account and 120 Day Notice Monthly Saver have a 0.20% reduction and the 60-day notice Cash ISA will see its rate reduce by 0.25%"
https://srbs.co.uk/news/bank-of-england-base-rate-reduction/
Though a few other regular savers that are holding their rates for now:
Suffolk BS have announced a series of interest rate reductions from 2/9/24.
Of note is that the following accounts remail unchanged:
Currently available:
Variable Rate Regular Saver (31.05.2026) at 5% (no change)
Online 1 Year Variable Rate Regular Saver (30.09.2025) at 5.15% (no change)
NLA:
Variable Rate Regular Saver (31.12.2025) at 5% (no change)
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Poor rates these days but may be of interest to those who have held onto the accounts with the minimum balance:
Buckinghamshire BS Rate Decreases From 1/9/24:
Regular Saver from 4% to 3.75%
Regular Saver Locals (NLA) from 4.4% to 4.15%1 -
SRBS RS1 remaining at 5.15% offers easy access. However, do you still have to post a letter plus passbook to make a withdrawal to your nominated account? Not particularly easy!
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Bridlington1 said:.Upon reflection my post was probably badly worded
The amount of work you do on here is appreciated 👍
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where_are_we said:SRBS RS1 remaining at 5.15% offers easy access. However, do you still have to post a letter plus passbook to make a withdrawal to your nominated account? Not particularly easy!1
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Speculator said:where_are_we said:SRBS RS1 remaining at 5.15% offers easy access. However, do you still have to post a letter plus passbook to make a withdrawal to your nominated account? Not particularly easy!
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I don't know if this has been mentioned. Yorkshire BS's three different RS accounts (5.75% loyalty, 5.25% regular, 5.00% first home, all variable) now appear to be NLA in their respective online variants. But they all still seem to be available for branch/postal applications (one wonders for how long).
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The variable interest rate on the Coventry BS Loyalty Regular Saver, is reducing from 7.00% to 6.75% on 2nd September 2024.16
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