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Password managers
I am considering using a password manager. Do they work for sites which at each log in require different characters from the password - e.g. 1st, 3rd, 10th or 4th, 5th, 9th rather than the whole...
 
App for realtime crypto/fiat value? (2023 Update)
Is there an app to show me my wallet's crypto coin value in fiat? I would like to see at a glance how much fiat money I have in a crypto wallet.
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Safe Investment Options
Hi all If you were going to hand over £50k as an inheritance payout to an adult, where would you suggest they put it? Not interested in high risk. Probably wouldn't want it locked away for long...
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Woodford and Hargreaves Lansdown
I'm badly affected by the Woodford disaster. I hope the man is permanently banned from the financial sector. As the main fund is suspended, we have to wait to see how much the damage is. Partly my...
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property valuation for inheritance tax
In 1998, when my father died, we valued our property at 300,000 pounds. This was incorrect, because its actual value was around 200,000. Currently our property is at around 1.1 million pounds. That's...
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Why can't we get rid of 1p, 2p, 5p coins?
Why can't we get rid of 1p, 2p, 5p coins? They're virtually worthless.
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paying a solicitor for inheritance tax
I have a question which you may find interesting. At some point in the next few years, I will have to pay UK inheritance tax on a UK residential property, probably in the neighbourhood of 50,000...
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other UK finance forums?
Where can I find other (web) forums for UK finance questions? reddit, perhaps? any others? thanks
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CAD -> GBP
I have a Canadian CAD account, and I want to transfer 80,000 CAD from it to UK GBP cash. I live in the UK. What's my best move? I can take 500 GBP per day / 3,000 CAD per week via Canadian credit...
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Does the FSCS cover dormant accounts?
Does the ?85000 protected in an account under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme remain protected if the account becomes dormant? Harry
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High Income Child Benefit Charge
I have just received a letter today about the High Income Child Benefit charge for the 2017-18 tax year. It does not make clear what we might owe. This is the first I have heard about this tax so I...
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Where to Put My £-Sterling Savings Before Dollar-Pa rity?
I think the pound will continue to drop from $1.33 to $1.29 on a 61.8% Fibonacci retracement over the past year and a half, before another possible dead-cat bounce. Where can I place my savings,...
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£1m inheritance WOOP WOOP - what to do?
As per the title, father-in-law has passed on leaving his estate to his dau ghter (my wife).....it looks like the final figure after taxes is going to be approximately £1m. Never having had ready...
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Pension entitlement and untraceable people?
Met up with a girl I used to work with years ago. She tells me she's had probably five or six jobs in her 32 years on this planet and has paid into a pension scheme in all of them. (Don't worry, our...
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Three Still Takes Payment For Cancelled Contract
Three Still Takes Payment For Cancelled Contract Up until October 2017 I used a Huawei dongle (black with green '3') to acce ss the Internet. This was on a monthly billing plan of £16 for 5GB. I was...