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 […]
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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, […]
Wage Gap Between Men & Women
Some quite surprising figures (at least to me) are being quoted in a story on the BBC website, saying that on average, women earn 27% less than men in the U.K. A survey by the salary site PayFinder suggests that the difference is biggest in London (surprise surprise), with the gap being a massive 35%. […]
Tax Man Eyeing eBay Traders
If you’re a regular eBay seller, you might want to start thinking about whether your trading will start to attract the attentions of the tax man. According to an article on the FT, the Revenue & Customs office is planning to look more closely at this type of trading, as the volumes of trades increase […]
More Tips For Saving Petrol
With the price of petrol going up, it seems that more and more people are looking to find ways to cut down on petrol use. I’m also noticing a fair few people coming to this site from Google searches to do with fuel efficiency, so as a follow to my previous petrol saving tips post, […]
Tips For Saving Petrol
Bruce Wayne (no, really?!) posted an article about the increasing price of petrol over at Finance Choices, suggesting that since the start of this year, the average U.K. family has seen the cost of motoring rise by £23.23 a month fuelled (geddit?) by these price increases. So, if we’re having to pay these high fuel […]