Billionaire rag trader Sir Philip Green is the secret power broker in the bitter, multi-million-pound struggle for control of Everton Football Club
This Is Money: City Pay Soars By 21%
City workers hit the jackpot with record pay rises of up to 21% last year – while the rest of the country got next to nothing
This Is Money: Plug Pulled On Top Home Loans
Homeowner are facing the prospect of even higher bills as mortgage lenders pull the plug on popular deals ahead of a predicted base rate rise
Scotsman: Mortgage Lending Dips From Record
SEPTEMBER’s gross mortgage lending was £17.9 billion, 14 per cent lower than August’s record figure, but slightly more than the £17.8bn reached in September last year, according to the British Bankers’ Association.
Scotsman: Scotland Remains Relatively Affordable For First-time Buyers
SCOTLAND remains one of the most affordable part of the UK for first-time buyers, although they are increasingly struggling to get on the property ladder.
Scotsman: Aegon Targets Small Business Pension Schemes
AEGON UK, the Edinburgh-based financial services group, has moved into the potentially massive group annuity market, targeting the closed defined-benefit pension schemes of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs).
Money Links For 26th Oct 2006
Links to other interesting money articles on 26th Oct 2006.
Motley Fool: A Better Way To Assess The Housing Market
It seems unfair really. The Halifax and Nationwide have worked hard on producing their own indices based on house characteristics and on mortgages, and now along comes the Land Registry, with its huge database of house prices.
This Is Money: I Lost £150,000 To Share Pushers
A retired university lecturer has lost nearly £150,000 to aggressive share pushers based abroad selling him high risk shares
Motley Fool: Why I Might Sell GlaxoSmithKline
The merger between Glaxo Welcome and SmithKline Beecham to form GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK) at the end of 2000 was supposed to herald great things for the British pharmaceutical pairing. But it has been anything but. And investors who remained loyal since the merger may want to consider taking a couple of tranquillisers to calm their nerves