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ISA Stocks and Shares Managed Funds
I wonder what people recommend re getting up to date info on the performance of managed funds suitable for ISAs. (ie not asking for people's views of individual funds - but from where can I get up to...
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Missing: hard drive containing Bitcoins worth 4m pounds in Newport landfill site
et al. This guy works in IT, but he doesn't seem to have heard that it's extremely unwise to dump or recycle hard drives unless they have first had any data they contain rendered completely unreadable...
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Lloyds TSB share
When Lloyd's offloads it stake in TSB what do Lloyds share holders get for their part of it? Derek. Lloyds will initially sell down a stake of between 30pc and 50pc when 631-branch bank TSB floats
 
Indie Scotland says they might keep Sterling. Westminster says they won't let 'em. Can they?
As the subject, really. Alex the Salmon says that, post-independence, Scotland may retain Sterling. Westminster, in return, says "No, you won't. We won't let you." But - can they? Surely any small...
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Emigrating with large precious metal savings
Suppose one were to sell their house and leave the UK. Due to loss in confidence in the pound and the banking system, and a feeling of an imminent run on one or both, he converts the money from the...
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Found cash - honesty?
What would you do? Think how much work you'd have to do to earn that much money. About £60,000 has been found floating in a Lincolnshire waterway About £60,000 in banknotes is found floating in a...
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Pensions contributions after drawdown
Let's say a 57 year old male decides to put his 200K SIPP into drawdown, taking 25% (50K) as a tax free lump sum immediately, then ad-hoc bits as needed (within the distrubution rules). Can...
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Effect of share prices on companies?
So a company's share price drops and the news headlines "millions knocked off xxx's value" - but what really is the effect of the share price change? OK the company might have had some bad news but...
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Director's Loan Account
When I was dealing with the management of a Director's Loan Account a few years ago I used to make sure that the account never went more than 5k in deficit, I think to avoid the creation of a...
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life insurance- taxable component of estate?
Perhaps I should have cross-posted to uk.legal, but I'm pretty sure that so meone here will know the answer. My question is: does a life insurance payo ut count as a declarable part of a deceased...
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Moving paper shares into an ISA?
My wife and I have inherited some shares, now (mostly) re-registered in our names. We pay tax on dividends, but we're not using our 'shares etc' ISA allowances. I spotted that Equiniti (who already...
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Finance Digital Marketing
The finance sector needs heavy marketing like many other business areas. Obviously digital is key as the power of print wanes further by the month. Start a new digital venture or market an existing...
 
ringfencing gift to married daughter
Hi, Is there a way to ringfence a cash gift to a married daughter so that in the event of a divorce at some time in the future, that gift can be excluded from the joint marital assets, so that it will...
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Annuity rates
'Which' reports that "Annuity rates in this country have risen dramatically over the past 12 months, but with variations of up to 38%, it's important to find one that best suits your circumstances."...
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Non-VAT-registered trader, supplying VAT-registered customer
Oops - I meant to post this in which is a little busier than Hope this comment spares me the outrage applied to multi-posters!
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