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Month: August 2006
Family Finance: Student Loans – A Lonely Debt
Student life is usually gregarious, with plenty of like-minded company to relieve the possible tedium of study. However, when it comes to dealing with debt, each student has to sort out his own salvation.
Family Finance: Credit Cards – Many Happy Returns
In the forty years since Barclaycard introduced the first credit card to Britain, there have been many changes.
Family Finance: Life Insurance. Don’t Let It All Go Up In Smoke
Thinking of giving up smoking? Maybe the thought of England’s 2007 smoking ban in enclosed public places is niggling away.
Family Finance: Mortgages For Debt Ridden Customers – A Booming Industry
This year the Financial Services Authority revealed the extreme lengths some mortgage brokers will go to in an effort to secure a loan in the sub prime mortgage market.
Family Finance: Mortgages. An Interest Only Mortgage: It Could Cost You More
Over 200,000 homebuyers in London during 2005 took out an interest-only loan according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).
MoneyExpert: Ethics As Important As Returns Say Savers
A new generation of savers are increasingly looking for ethical value from their savings in addition to the best rates available to them, claims Friends Provident.
MoneyExpert: Interest Rate Increases: Not Out Of Woods Yet Says Bank
Bank of England figures have indicated that a further increase in the base rate of interest before the end of the year is a very real risk.
MoneyExpert: HSBC Describes End To Free Banking “inevitable” As Profits Soar
HSBC yesterday said that a general move toward annual charges for current accounts and credit cards is “inevitable” in response to a regulatory clampdown on penalty charges.
MoneyExpert: Adults In The UK Heed Friends’ Finance Advice Above Their Fashion Sense
People in the UK are more likely to ask their friends about the best rates of finance than whether their bums, do, indeed, look big in this, says a new Alliance & Leicester survey.