- 'Darling buds of dismay' - Northern Rock fiasco (sept 2007) Crisis! What crisis? It's just remarkable that it was a week ago that Northern Rock was apparently in melt-down. All sorted now - Perfic! - At the time it was strange to see the savers amon...
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At 1% management charges, Virgin are very expensive. There are plenty of other UK Trackers which do the same job with charges from 0.1% - 0.5%. Why would you want to give them extra cash? I know that some others (especially the biggest banks) not only...
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For a while now I had been looking to put a small amount of money away each month. I found out that the Government lets you invest up to £25 a month with a friendly society and that this can be done without paying any tax, even when you get the final pay...
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I have had my Virgin ISA for around 10 months and can't really fault the product or their service. The fund has low charges (1% annual management fees, no other charges for entry/exit fees etc.) and fairly closely follows the FTSE All-Share index. You c...
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If you have read the weekend business sections of the papers you maybe forgiven for thinking every fund manager is after your hard earned cash. Your right, although ISA investment inflows have increased this year with the boyant markets, they are still we...
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A bond is simply an IOU. It is an mutal agreement under which a sum is repaid to the investor at some future date. By ownership of a bond you are in turn borrowing money to the person (banks or governments usually) issuing the bond. These bonds commonly p...
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