What could you do with a windfall of £l32,000? That is the figure the influential Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) believes today’s children could be better off by when they reach middle age – if they attend classes now on personal finance and…
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First-time buyers find themselves in an unenviable position. Ever-increasing house prices coupled to interest rate rises make it difficult to place that first step on the housing ladder.
As Scotland’s home owners brace themselves for higher mortgage bills to begin dropping on door mats this week, house price experts have warned that property inflation has peaked and the market is heading for a slowdown.
A friendly society which targeted elderly consumers has been fined £55,000 by the chief city watchdog, the Financial Services Authority, for misleading advertising.
A financial index is a collection of shares designed to reflect the performance of some part of, or more likely the whole of, a particular stock market.
Home owners will today be bracing themselves as higher mortgage bills will begin dropping onto doormats later this week. But there is more gloomy news ahead.
Nearly one in ten women are saving money without telling their partners, according to Scottish Widows.
Britain’s largest co-operative society has announced a scheme to allow its members to share profits in return for loyalty, a partial reintroduction of the co-op’s famous dividend.
As winter draws near, around 10,000 of the UK’s motorcyclists begin to make plans for storing their bikes away for the cold season.
In the last year more than three quarters of a million County Court Judgments have been registered in England and Wales – the first rise in 15 years and a clear indication that lenders are clearly getting tougher on the rising number of people with debt problems.