UK Finance Discussions

Buildings insurance for a block of flats ....

We are required by our lease to insure our individual flats with RSA. However RSA has told us that of the thousands of...

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posted by chrisjbrady

3 comments posted 11yrs posted by chrisjbrady

UK Gov debt and the gilt market (why do they need it?)

I've been reading: http://www.which.co.uk/money/savings-and-investments/guides/corporate-bonds-and-gilts/how-gilts-and-...

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posted by js64469

3 comments posted 11yrs posted by js64469

Transferring Stocks & Shares ISA - opinions?

One of my largest savings is now valued at about £30k, in a Standard Life Stocks & Shares ISA (Equity Income Trust). Th...

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posted by me

4 comments posted 11yrs posted by me

Children's bank accounts

Looked at children's savings accounts on http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/child-savings-tax-free and was very d...

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posted by usenet

3 comments posted 11yrs posted by usenet

RPI direction + NS&I

Where is inflation going? Thoughts on this please. I know if we knew the answers to this kind of question, we'd be very...

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posted by fred

3 comments posted 11yrs posted by fred

New interest only mortgage- initial payment

Hi. I've just taken out an interest only mortgage, with the loan drawn on t he 20th of this month. I just received a le...

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posted by terry.shitcrumbs

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Travel Insurance for the over 65s

What a nightmare. All the insurance companies we have tried wont insure us now that we're over 65. We actually want a m...

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posted by s_byers666

14 comments posted 11yrs posted by s_byers666

Reclaiming Tax on Investments

If tax has been deducted from interest on savings and you are a non-tax payer, how long do you have to reclaim this? Tha...

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posted by phil

23 comments posted 11yrs posted by phil

Most people on over £100k already pay 60% Tax

Alistair Darling introduced a progressive reduction in personal allowance for incomes over £100k which the Tories did n...

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posted by thomas

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Why are currency conversion quotes the wrong way round?

I notice that sites such as Google Finance quote the pound to dollar conversion rates in the form GBP/USD = 1.4784. I w...

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posted by thomas

25 comments posted 11yrs posted by thomas

Cooperative Bank Asking for National Insurance Number After 15 Years

I have received a letter from the Cooperative Bank saying that they have to suspend payments to my ISA unless I provide...

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posted by googlespam

9 comments posted 11yrs posted by googlespam

Splitting revenue 60/40 with soon to be retired supplier - What implications if any?

Apologies if this is the wrong group to be posting this to.. We are a small vehicle parts /repair company, and one of o...

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posted by n52wke

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Greek bond yields

I don't understand Greek 10 year bond yields. Last time I looked (about 2 weeks ago) they were ~ 10%. I see a big hairc...

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posted by Jim

2 comments posted 11yrs posted by Jim

Registering as a non tAxpayer

I take it if someone has registered their bank and building society accounts as a non taxpayer that they need not regis...

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posted by david.rumba

1 comments posted 11yrs posted by david.rumba

BA Exec Club Cancels All AVIOS

Just had my latest email statement from BA Exec Club. I never understood th e change from AirMiles to Avios - WTF are A...

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posted by chrisjbrady

13 comments posted 11yrs posted by chrisjbrady