Are you a financial genius?

Scored 120

Predictably, patronising advice was still proffered -

"Make sure you keep up to date with new jargon and products available."

Daytona

At 21:12:40 on 04/03/2005, Daytona delighted uk.finance by announcing:

110 for me. Misread the tax-band question and stuck 0% in for the first figure :-p

I can't agree with their answer to Q8. A negative return on your savings of 1%, is nowhere near the rate of decline that makes it sensible to spend them. Good financial planning *requires* having savings even if they are losing value in real terms.

tim

Apparently yes.

I'm not sure I completely agree with their answer to the question "how do banks make their money", though it is certainly partly true.

At 22:58:13 on 04/03/2005, tim delighted uk.finance by announcing:

Surely that depends largely upon what you spend them.

Wouldn't load in my browser (IE or Opera), suspect firewall blocking something.

Perhap it's because it's an advert which uses shockwave! I've disabled all that on my browser.

Absolutely. I said none of the above. If interest rates are so low, you'd look at other ways of investing, e.g. shares.

cd