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As the MMR approaches what next for mortgages?
But what about mortgages? Over the last few years, the mortgage market has seen a gradual decline in the remortgages. This has mainly been due to the low Bank of
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More over-50s open share dealing accounts
The data from Saga shows a “huge yearly increase” (80%) in the number of customers opening nominee share dealing accounts. Saga says there has also been a general 43% year-on-year
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Brits won’t pay for investment advice
The survey also revealed that 56% would only pay for investment advice if it guaranteed they wouldn’t lose any money. Just 7% of the 2,019 consumers who took part in
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New retirees see income drop by two thirds
The report reveals that while the average annual salary for the over 60s is £25,480, the average annual pension income, including state pension, is just a third of that at
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Pension charges to be capped at 0.75%
The cap will be significant for millions of people who are being automatically enrolled into workplace pension savings. The charge cap is the toughest of the three the government had
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Tax Efficient Investing
Embrace the bull in the China shop
The thrust of most negative reports focus on six key issues: that China has grown at an unprecedented rate; has a lot of debt; struggles with corruption; has unreliable statistics;
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Changes to pensions set to boost equity release
This is the view of Age Partnership which believes the equity release sector will benefit as providers develop innovative solutions for meeting consumers’ requirements for income and capital sums for
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Why you should check your credit score
It is important to understand that there are things that you can do in order to improve your credit score but it is also very easy to have a false
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Fund managers see hard currency as key to growth in 2014
The Aviva Investors Multi-Manager Fixed Income Survey asked fund managers with around £2 trillion of assets under management for their views on markets. Fund managers were asked about return expectations
