Standard Life policyholders in line for free shares as company demutualises.
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Odds of Winning The Lottery
I have to admit that since I found out that you can take part in the National Lottery online a few months ago, I’ve been playing every week. It’s far more convenient than having to remember to get a ticket, and I was lucky enough to win twice in a row a couple of weeks […]
New SIPP Rules
The pension industry is currently gearing up for big changes to Self Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs) next year. When A-Day arrives on 6th April, it will mean that those with SIPPs will be able to put a wider range of assests and investments into their pensions to gain relief on them from the tax man. […]
Cut Costs Of Using Your Mobile In Europe
E.C. launches new website to help cut the cost of using your mobile phone on the continent.
Review Of Lending Service Zopa
Zopa is a “person-to-person” lending service (the “eBay of banking”) which launched to mixed reactions a few months ago. Being a new service, people were naturally sceptical (me included), as to how it would compare to the banks. On the one hand, it cuts out the middleman (the banks), allowing users to set their own […]
Child Trust Fund: What To Do?
Recent reports suggest that many people have still failed to invest their child trust fund vouchers (about 50%, in fact). In some cases this is down to ignorance, although in other cases people are biding their time, as they are unsure about what they should do with them. It’s worth noting that parents have until […]
Take Care With Travel Insurance Claims
If you’ve just returned from or are just about to go on a holiday, then you might find this article on travel insurance claims on The Telegraph website an interesting read. It is estimated that about 5% of policyholders will make a claim on their insurance, and although many people think that travel insurance will […]
ICICI HiSave Savings Account Update
The Indian-based bank ICICI made the headlines a couple of months ago when it launched its high-paying (5.4%) savings account, HiSave. I wrote at the time about how good a deal it was, but unfortunately it seems that it may have been too good to be true. Since its launch, it has been appearing at […]
Home Contents Insurance Inventory
A post on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity and my recent post about home & contents insurance for students got me thinking that I should do my own inventory of possessions in case anything happens to them (theft, fire etc.). Here’s a little idea I came up to help keep track of your valuable items – […]
8 Credit Card Commandments
Free Money Finance pointed me in the direction of Yahoo!’s Eight Commandments of Credit. Although this is primarily information for the U.S. market, most of this is applicable here in the U.K. too. Of the eight commandments they suggest we follow, here are the most important to remember, in my opinion: Credit is just that, […]