Welcome to Insights. Enjoying reading the latest blogs, financial news and team updates from the people at Serenity.
Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date.
Category: Uncategorized
âNo news is good newsâ as the old saying goes â or as world stock markets interpreted it in September, âNo catastrophic news is good enough, thank you.â
Clearly all is still not well with the worldâs economy, but there were no full blown crises in September and most stock markets took this as their cue to inch forward.
Category: Uncategorized
Anyone remember August 2007? Kanye West was number one with Stronger, Sven-Goran Eriksson was Premier League manager of the month â and the world was having a financial crisis. August 2007 was âwhen the world changedâ according to Adam Applegarth, the ex-CEO of Northern Rock.
Category: Uncategorized
For most of us, itâs simple. Go to work every month, get paid, have a look at the pension deduction on your wage slip. Once a year you receive a pension update that you donât really understand. Oh well, pop it in the drawer with all the other updatesâŚ
Category: Uncategorized
There is a war of words between âWhich?â and the banks, following the recent publication of the findings of Which? research into bank charges, including a survey of customer understanding and opinion about charging policy and practice, particularly in relation to current accounts.
Category: Uncategorized
Private school fees have increased by an average of 68% in the past decade, a rate of growth almost twice the rate of increase in the Retail Price Index (37%) over the same period, according to recent research by Lloyds TSB Private Banking.
Since 2002, the average annual private school fee has increased from ÂŁ6,820 to ÂŁ11,457.
Category: Uncategorized
The A-level results came out on August 16th and thousands of teenagers up and down the country are now looking forward to starting university in September. Their parents, however, might be gloomily looking at their bank accounts and taking a rather different view.
