Category: Lifestyle & Uncategorized
Trying to save money? Then look beyond your utilities bills, commute costs or credit card rates. Whatâs good for your waistline can be good for your wallet too..? A recent Moneyplus blog from Standard Life shares some lifestyle changing ideas with fitness and financial benefits: how to get in shape and save money too!
Category: Lifestyle & retirement & Uncategorized
Good news for all of us who have accepted that we are getting older: Saga reports that new European research shows that 60 is the new 40! The research reveals that people are now reaching middle age at the tender age of 60, instead of the previously expected figure of 40 years old.
Category: Lifestyle & savings & Uncategorized
After age 30 it is probable that financial planning will be upped one or two gears and become a far more intense matter.
It is worth reflecting how things have changed over the past few generations; more and more people are going to universities, families are having children later, are buying property (and by definition therefore taking on mortgages) at later ages and everyone is facing up to a longer life and a (much) later retirement.
Category: Lifestyle & Uncategorized
The latest Aviva Family Finance Report shows that the percentage of stay-at-home mums has almost halved since the 1960s and â70s, while more families are creating their own bespoke parenting and childcare styles, using a mixture of grandparents, nurseries and part-time work.
Category: Lifestyle & savings & Uncategorized
Almost a third (30%) of students currently attending university will move back in with their parents after they have completed their studies, HSBC research shows. For those starting university this year, almost half (49%) expect to live with their parents. Of those who intend to live at home, 78% said it was in order to save money and minimise their debt.
Category: Education & Lifestyle & savings & Uncategorized
Parents want value for money from their childâs further education â they increasingly expect a good return on investment from sending their child to university according to a new report from HSBC, âThe Value of Education: Springboard for Successâ.
