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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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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 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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eToro Cash ISA 'transfers in'
This ISA currently looks pretty good, but I'm having a nightmare opening it or transferring in. Has anyone succeded? The terms are below, but when I chat to their AI bot I'm either told the product doesn't exit or that it exists but doesn't allow transfers, or that I don't exist, or that nothing exists anymore… ● Open an…
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Gia investing
Good Morning. I have been investing a while now but only ever invested into my stocks isa. Soon im going to have a large lump sum to invest. Long story short after maxing my isa contributions some to my SIPP my next route is a GIA. I have never used one of these although I know they are the same but Its now the Tax rapper…
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NS&I: Premium Bonds - older than 1990s
Hello there I am the fortunate owner of £5 of Premium Bonds acquired within a year of my birthday circa 50 years ago! Woo hoo! I hear you cry: a whole £5. Well, yes, if adjusted for subsequent inflation (which painfully it is not) it would have been worth £33.89 in July 2025 according to the Bank of England's inflation…
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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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Oaknorth
Hi Im new here so forgive me if I'm going about this the wrong way. I've been trying to open a joint fixed term account with Oaknorth for 2 days but every time I get to "enter email" and press next I get an error message "unexpected error has occurred." Ive spoken to Oaknorth by phone and they say theres nothing wrong with…
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Transfering delisted shares from Halifax Sharebuilder
I have some shares with Woodside Energy Group held in an S&S ISA with Halifax. They have delisted on the LSE, and moved to ASX and I cannot sell them via the platform. How can I get around this and organise to sell them please?
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Ecology Building Society: Online access update
The Ecology Building Society have had a rather radical update to their online access and also have a new app. Once registered on the new system, all savings accounts now have their own sort code and account number (previously a 10 digit account number was quoted as a reference with any bank transfers into their main Co-op…
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Seeking Sanity Check: 74yo Mum Widowed, £18k Savings + First Credit Card
Hi everyone, My Dad passed away a few weeks ago and I’m helping my 74-year-old Mum sort out her finances. I’ve done some research based on the latest MSE guides, but I’d love a sanity check from the community to make sure I’m not missing a trick. Her Situation: Funds: £18k lump sum, currently sitting in Barclays current…
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Investing in current times
I opened an S&S ISA about 18 months ago and have invested in one thing since it started in the last month it’s gone down, as I’m sure many people are experiencing. im fairly new to this so not sure if i should take the advice of many social media posts and continue with monthly investments or wait for things to change - on…
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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 MSE 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…
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IWeb/Scottish Widows cash withdrawals to bank - how long?
Would anyone know how long these take please? I've sold some funds in a GIA (realising CGT allowances for this tax year) and I was planning on using the proceeds to fund an ISA on a different platform but looking at the settlement date and some of the stuff I've read online I'm not convinced the sale will have cleared…
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Investing advice
hi I need some advice on where to invest my capital. I'm 55. I've been retired for three years. I now get about £800 a month from a LGPS pension which more than covers my bills and day-to-day expenses. I currently have about 380K in capital that is split between investco BIPS, VLS80 and short-term money market. I also have…
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*partial* S&S ISA transfer from SWSD (iWeb) to Freetrade?
I don't usually bother with cashbacks (SFX: horrified gasps), but I'm tempted by Freetrade's offer of 1% (max £5,000) on ISA transfers/subscriptions. (Though not by their similar offer for SIPPs, for various reasons.) I note there are some issues with ambiguous/modified terms around lockin/clawback times/calculation, but…
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global funds
ive posted here before and have been reading a lot , gaining confidence in investing after a late start at 50. I have most of my money in HSBC global balanced fund and was happy with that but didnt realise how concentrated (seemingly as most global trackers are) in tech in the US. Fine if youve already seen the upside but…
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Tembo - are they any good
I have never used just an online only account before and am looking at setting up a Tembo ISA to transfer my ISA across to, I am slightly nervous about an online only account and was wondering how people get on with the Tembo one? TIA
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Crypto.com withdraw problems
Hi all, My wife invested £250 into crypto.com about 7 years ago and forgot about it until recently. She contacted them and got a call back yesterday. The guy who she spoke to named Oscar spent 3 hours trying to help her but there wasn't a way to create a link from the crypto account to her English bank account because the…
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Impax tender April
Despite making a good start to the year in recovering a bit of its downward trend, partly maybe because of the first tender offer , Impax has lost 10% in the last month, 1.5% in the last week. With the war appearing to overall be escalating despite Trumps assurances of near deals etc , how wise or not do folk think is it…
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New rate of tax on interest from April 2027
Hi Apologies if this has been asked before but I couldn't find an answer. As tax on savings interest is charged retrospectively (well it is for me anyway!) when the new tax rates come into effect in April 2027 will they be applied only to interest earned from April 2027 onwards or will the new higher apply to any interest…
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Trading 212 ; Trading!
Does anyone experience similar to me? It is baffling and infuriating in equal measure. It seems impossible sometimes to get trades matched. Sometimes I use a limit order. Which sets a maximum price. For example, buy 1000 at 1, when the security is trading at 1.01. It will trade at 0.99, yet my limit order is still pending.…
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Tax efficient way to save for child's education?
Hello everyone, I'm hoping to get a bit of advice. I'm currently an additional rate taxpayer as I work as a contractor which means a relatively high day rate but no pension/annual leave etc (I put a good % into a private pension to reduce tax). I have a 3 year old daughter who is currently at the pre-school (nursery…
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