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Category: Lifestyle & retirement & Uncategorized
A new report from MGM Advantage, put together with research conducted in October 2013, asked the following question of respondents: âBeing as realistic as you can, approximately how old do you think youâll live until?â
Category: savings & Uncategorized
Do you know whether your bank or building society pays Compound Interest on its fixed rate savings accounts and ISAs? They are likely to quote you the Annual Equivalent Rate (AER) as a percentage interest rate, but will this Simple Interest be compounded?
Category: Economy & Uncategorized
When the media raises the subject of beating the market through astute stock picking, the name 'Warren Buffett' is usually cited. But what does this legendary investor actually say about the smart way to invest?
Category: savings & Uncategorized
The average UK household overall is 26 days from the breadline, but this reduces to just 11 days for those of working age (18-64 years old). People estimate their savings will last them 72 days â almost three times the actual deadline to exhausting reserve funds. Wales and the North East have the shortest deadlines in the UK of just 11 days and a third of Britons (33%) still have no savings.
Category: Uncategorized
Borrowers could be forced to wait weeks for an appointment with lendersâ mortgage advisers after the Mortgage Market Review as firms race to get qualified staff in place.
Last week, a business development manager at one of the UKâs biggest lenders warned brokers at a Sesame Live conference that customers could expect waiting times of up to a month to see a lenderâs in-branch mortgage adviser.
Category: pensions & Uncategorized
Following the Budget statement in March, the Government has unveiled plans to completely overhaul the UKâs current pension system.
From April 2015, from age 55, whatever the size of a personâs defined contribution pension pot, the Government proposes that theyâll be able to take it however they want, subject to their marginal rate of income tax in that year.
