Category: Budget & Lifestyle & retirement & Saving & Tax & Uncategorized
Last year we went over and above the call of duty in our Autumn Statement Preview: we combed the Chancellor’s Twitter feed to look for clues as to what might be in his speech.
Category: Education & Family & Lifestyle & Uncategorized
An April 2015 article reviews the cost of studying at university in the UK, giving food for thought for would-be undergraduates and their families. UK tuition fees are frequently under the media spotlight, following price hikes for home students in recent years.
Category: Lifestyle & Security & Uncategorized
Experian’s expertise and insight on data security, in a report published recently, has highlighted a gender imbalance. Men are now victims in two out of three ID thefts (63%) across all financial product applications. The report tells us that criminals making bogus current account applications have been targeting men aged between 50 and 59 (up 3.4%), most during the first six months of 2015. This age group now accounts for nearly one in five (17.6%) current account ID thefts attempted against men.
Category: Health & Lifestyle & savings & Uncategorized
Concerns over money dominate the thinking of pre-retirees, according to new research from Retirement Advantage. Conducted by YouGov, the study finds almost half (49%) of over 50s are worried about not having enough money in retirement to do the things they want to do, compared to just over a third (37%) who are concerned about health problems.
Category: Family & Lifestyle & Uncategorized
Moneysupermarket.com poses the question – if you are travelling abroad, do you need to take some cash in the local currency to fund day-to-day expenses such as taxi fares and snacks? If so, how do you make sure you get the best deal when you can buy foreign currency from a bank, building society, travel agent, bureau de change, even the supermarket or the Post Office?
Category: Lifestyle & retirement & Uncategorized
The South West of England appears to be the place to live if you want a long, healthy and safe retirement, according to a new league table of pensioner well-being developed by Prudential. The league table, which uses a combination of census data and results from the insurer’s own retirement research, ranks the top 20 counties in England and Wales according to several measures of the wellbeing of their pensioner populations.
