A new pension was launched this week which promises to be even cheaper than stakeholders. The Lifetime Account will charge a flat £35 a year, an amount that is significantly less than the standard level …
Parents who want to send their children to private schools need to start saving while they are in nappies. Around 7% of children – more than 600,000 pupils – now attend independent schools and that …
Britain’s pensions are in a right mess. Public sector workers may not be doing too badly, but the rest of us are going to suffer. So what is the Government doing about it? Why all …
Both gold and the euro have now lost around 10% of their value against the US dollar since it began rallying last December. But European investors looking to protect their capital during this week’s political …
Which metals prices fell last week? Almost all of them. Copper, the most active metal on the London Metal Exchange, was among the biggest fallers. From its lows in 2003, the price of copper had …
Anyone who’s just received a gas or electricity bill will not need convincing that the cost of living in the UK is going up noticeably. What is more surprising to those facing double-digit fare increases …
In terms of the overall market, small. The capitalisation of the global mining sector is about $240bn, less than the market value of General Electric.There are a handful of huge global players, a number of …
Twenty per cent of us don’t complain about unsatisfactory products or services according to Which? magazine. Yet we should: disappointing purchases cost us £8.3bn a year. A friend of ours recently complained about being given …
This year, the average UK taxpayer will work until the last day of May just to pay their share of the Government’s tax bill. ‘Tax Freedom Day’, as it has become known, used to fall …
Anyone who took any notice of MoneyWeek’s advice to buy silver a few years ago when it was loitering at around $4 dollars an ounce would have been pretty pleased with themselves in April, when …