Money

20 August 2009

Europe And The Credit Crunch

International research released today by Ciao, Europe’s leading comparison shopping community, offers new insight into the impact of the recession on people across Europe highlighting key differences in the responses ...

12 August 2009

Collectables - is there gold at the back of your shelves?

21st century iconic consumables with a distinctly British heritage have never been more desirable, whether it’s cigarette cards, sticker books, dolls, action figures, sea shells or rocks, it seems collecting ...
29 July 2009

The Return Of The 125% Mortgagae

Nationwide Building Society’s decision to allow customers to take out loans worth 125 percent of the value of the homes they are buying shows that lenders are innovating to help ...
8 July 2009

Top jobs are still for the City boys

British men think a woman’s financial place is in the homeWednesday 8th July:  British men do not blame testosterone fuelled bankers for the credit crunch and recession, research from money.co.uk ...
7 July 2009

A Girls Guide To Financial Freedom

What every girl should know about credit. Been splashing the cash or saving every penny? Ironically, both could have a negative effect on your credit rating, which in turn will affect ...
30 June 2009

Brits too embarrassed to ask for financial help.

Research from independent charity Turn2us has revealed that millions of people in the UK are too embarrassed to ask for help as they face financial crisis. This embarrassment is preventing ...
26 June 2009

House Prices Continue To Fall

House prices in England and Wales fell slightly again last month, according to figures from the Land Registry.The average house price in May fell by 0.2% from April to £152,497, ...

25 June 2009

Britons too embarrassed to ask for financial assistance

Turn2us is a charity that puts people who find themselves in financial difficulties in touch with one of the 3,300 charities around the country that can offer financial support.In fact, ...
4 June 2009

Interest rates remain static As house register a small rise.

The Bank of England have kept the cost of borrowing unchanged at 0.5% for the third month in a row, as well as not taking any fresh incentives to stimulate ...
16 April 2009

Finance Clinic

Are you looking to save money in an effort to ride out the recession?  If you are like four in ten people who admit they are putting their families at ...
7 April 2009

Dont Bank on Deposit Based Savings for Income or Income in Retirement

 As a financial adviser for the last 30 years, Frank Cochran of Celebrity Financial Planning Ltd and FSC Investments Ltd, is often asked to comment on how the general public ...
27 March 2009

The Credit Crunch Hits School Trips

Nine out of ten teachers say the current economic climate would make it harder to arrange school trips in the future according to results of a report issued today at ...

27 February 2009

Would You Keep £100 If You Found It On The Street?

Here's a test of your honesty. What would you do if you found £100 in the street? Would you hand it in to Police, give it to charity, spend it ...

2 February 2009

What To Make Extra Money? Become A Wedding Planner

We’re all sick of the words credit crunch and the instability the recession brings to our lives, but The Wedding Planner School report that large numbers of people are fighting ...

28 January 2009

London Is The Capital Of Fraud

Card fraud has dramatically increased in London over the last year with more than two million, over one in three, Londoners now having fallen victim.According to life assistance company CPP’s ...

9 January 2009

Tops tips to prevent ID fraud

Money is low and so are we. The last thing anyone in the UK needs right now is to be a target of fraud. However, HM Revenue & Customs have ...

7 January 2009

'A Girl’s Guide to Money' - Top Tips for 2009

Money matters are at the forefront of everyone’s minds at the moment, with the current financial climate placing a heavy burden on society. To help women tackle their money worries ...

6 January 2009

Tayo Hendrix's Credit Crunch Tip

Happy New Year and welcome to a new way of crunching those credits!Life is full of choices and each choice you make has an impact on where you are going. ...

10 December 2008

Deck the Halls with Boughs of Lolly

British women need to be more financially thrifty as they face a ‘Credit Crunch Christmas’ warn money experts Scottish Widows. Despite current economic woes, less than a third of women ...

5 December 2008

A Girl’s Guide to Pensions

Things every woman should know about pensionsThe world of pensions can seem distant, daunting and often irrelevant when many of us are concentrating on the now - paying our bills, ...

4 December 2008

House Prices Fall Further 2.6%

House prices fell another 2.6% in November, according to mortgage lender the Halifax. According to its latest survey, the annual rate of house price falls to 14.9%, compared to 13.7% ...

4 December 2008

Pound Drops To Record Low

The Pound Hits Record Euro LowThe British pound has dropped to a historic low against the euro as markets expect the Bank of England to further drop its interest rates. ...

19 November 2008

British Men are the Real Beale

It’s official: British men don’t like splashing the cash. According to research, a fifth of UK men surveyed compare themselves to Ian Beale from Eastenders when it comes to spending: ...

18 November 2008

Brits Determined To Have Jolly Christmas

Photobox and YouGov confidence survey reveals it’s not all ‘doom and gloom’ for Christmas shopping this yearLondon: Despite the financial downturn and credit crunch hype, it appears that Brits are ...