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Category: Family & Lifestyle & Uncategorized
Moneysupermarket.com poses the question â 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: Market commentary & Uncategorized
The end of September, and the end of the third quarter of 2015 â a quarter which, as all the financial press reported, was the worst for global equities since 2011. As CNBC put it:
A sustained collapse in commodity prices, Chinaâs stunning market rout followed by its shocking currency devaluation as well as fears of a Greek default and a US interest rate hike were some of the factors that made the past three months a summer to forget for investors.
Category: Investments & markets & Uncategorized
A recent Standard Life article suggests that in simple terms, you probably shouldnât be worried about recent market falls. Most of us are investing over the long term, and significant market falls happen periodically. Generally, the wrong thing to do when markets fall by a reasonable margin is to panic and sell out of the market â this just locks in a loss. The right thing to do is remember why youâre invested in the first place and make sure that rationale hasnât changed.
Category: Business & Investments & Uncategorized
Strategic reports provide âvery little insightâ into future prospects. Many strategic reports contain a mass of annual data and text, which is largely backward looking, finds a PriceWaterhouse (PwC) study. Information disclosed in companiesâ annual reports is being buried in a mass of annual data and text, presenting investors with a tough challenge to unearth it, according to the research.
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 insurerâs own retirement research, ranks the top 20 counties in England and Wales according to several measures of the wellbeing of their pensioner populations.
Category: Uncategorized
Experianâs latest survey suggests that the rising cost of weddings is rocking the boat for many couples, and not just for the bride and groom. In fact, almost a quarter of Britons (22%) have argued with their partner about the cost of witnessing others tie the knot.
