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If you want to dip into your pension, be quick
The age at which you can get to your retirement pot rises from 50 to 55 from April next year.
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Are fund managers serving a dog's dinner?
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Is your actively managed fund on Bestinvest's shaming 'dog' list? And, if so, what can you do? Julian Knight and Chiara Cavaglieri investigate
City watchdog bares teeth to fine GMAC and Swinton
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Tens of thousands of mortgage and insurance customers will be entitled to compensation after the City regulator's investigations regarding unfair practices.
Julian Knight: Let's recognise the 'specialness' of the live-in partner
Sunday, 1 November 2009
It's a difficult one Should people who are cohabiting have the right to claim the estates of their loved ones when they die in the same way bereaved spouses or civil partners do? The UK Law Commission says yes. But others say that if the cohabitees had meant their partners to have a share of their wealth they would have either got married or written a will. Dig deeper and the argument becomes one about protecting the "specialness" of marriage.
Solicitors offer bargain wills in charity drive
Sunday, 1 November 2009
As part of Will Aid month, starting today, solicitors all over the country are offering to draw up basic wills in exchange for charitable donations.
Wealth check: Help me break from bank of mum and dad
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Ed Gibbs is starting a dream apprenticeship, but can he become self-sufficient when he's earning such a small salary?
Mark Dampier: Insynergy's at the top of its league
Saturday, 31 October 2009
One theme I return to time and time again in my column is the quality of fund managers. Whilst there are thousands of funds available to investors, I'm afraid many are average, and simply make up the numbers.
Are your savings suffering in a dog fund?
Saturday, 31 October 2009
A new report names and shames the fund managers who are underperforming. It should make you think again about your investments. Simon Read reports
Alice-Azania Jarvis: What to eat for lunch a Marmite sandwich or a salad from M&S;?
Saturday, 31 October 2009
In The Red
Money Insider: NS&I; lays down the gauntlet in best buy tables
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Since the credit crunch took hold it has been fixed-rate bonds that have been the most hotly contested part of the savings market, and this week proved no exception.
Rejuvenated Lego is back on the block
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Chances are that Lego will find its way back into children's stockings this Christmas, along with other old-fashioned toys that the internet age had threatened to confine to history.
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