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Low Interest Rates On Bonds

The abnormally low interest rates on bonds and other fixed income investments may be here for a very long time. That’s the word from the Bond King Bill Gross, CEO of PIMCO and world-renowned bond rate prognosticator. The effect of such low rates would be disastrous for the millions of retirees and near-retirees who rely […]

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2014 Trends In Personal Finance

Bank transfers are history and contactless is the future, says founder Kent, as he predicts Personal Finance Trends for 2014. Using his insider knowledge of the rapidly evolving consumer finance sector, Azimo founder Michael Kent, has revealed the top five ways we’ll be spending money differently over the next twelve months. Azimo, the online international […]

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Industry In A Changing Europe

Financial services are the focal point of the debate about Britain’s future in the EU. The sovereign debt and banking crises have accelerated integration in the Eurozone, a trend often seen as alien to British interests. The position of the City as the main financial services centre in Europe has become uncertain. In this new […]

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Pension Cap Will Cost Savers

The DWP consultation on pension charging ended on Thursday 28 November 2013, the Government has proposed a pensions cap at 0.75%. Legal & General believes the proposed cap will be ineffective in driving down costs, and not tackle the big problem of legacy pension schemes where savers could be getting a poor deal. John Pollock, […]

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Plan for Low-Risk Investing

The simplest way to invest is a Browne Plan. It promises steady capital growth with minimal downside risk, requires no management beyond an annual portfolio review, and frees you from having to make any decisions about what’s happening in the markets. It’s ideally suited to those who don’t have the skills or the time to […]

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New appointments for Topstak

Topstak

Thanks to a rapidly growing interest in renewables, Topstak –  Vale of Glamorgan based specialists in renewable energy solutions, wood burning stoves and kitchens – has added three members to its renewables and stove installation team. [Read more…]

Lending Scheme Hits Three-Year High

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly able to secure bank loans supported by a Government-backed scheme, as lending under the scheme reached its highest level since 2010. Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) scheme lending figures, published today, show banks offered loans worth £111 million to SMEs in the third quarter of 2013, the most since […]

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Keys to Improving Your Investment Profits

Crowd Money: A Practical Guide to Macro Behavioural Technical Analysis* is, in my opinion, the best new book on investing to be written for many years. It’s by Eoin Treacy, who partners the famous London-based technical analyst David Fuller, editor/publisher of the long-established newsletter Fullermoney, and a longtime friend. He first taught me charting, the […]

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Britain Opts for a Bubble Play

The UK government has “lost patience” with austerity, and with a general election two years away, has abandoned it in favour of a new bout of debt creation, “tempting consumers to leverage their balance sheets into a new housing bubble,” suggests Trevor Greetham of Fidelity Worldwide Investment. In the UK and other countries that gave […]

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New Cardiff coffee house

Coffee Continental

Coffee Continental

Coffee  Continental, a delightful independent, family-run coffee house and bistro will open in the Castle Arcade in Cardiff’s city centre on October 17. [Read more…]