BA customer data has flown off into the etherThe latest data breach is another reminder of the importance of keeping your financial information as safe as possible. After the data breach at British Airways last …
Leap free, but take precautionsSavers are using the pensions freedom rules to dip into their retirement funds at an alarming rate, says David Prosser. The average amount that savers with income-drawdown plans withdrew from their …
Mark Carney’s rate increase hasn’t reached NS&IThe state-backed bank is popular, but there are better rates on offer elsewhere for savers. Savers with National Savings & Investments (NS&I) have been left disappointed after the government-backed …
The members left behind may have to settle for something smallerFinal-salary pensions have been too generous to those leaving the schemes. Overly generous transfer payments to savers leaving defined-benefit (DB) pension schemes could jeopardise the …
Phoenix Life, the pensions company that specialises in taking on other insurers’ historic savings plans, has dropped exit fees for 150,000 customers who have benefits worth less than £5,000. The move will make it easier …
Divorce courts are failing to take account of couples’ pension savings. Fewer than one in five divorces where a financial award is made include provisions for pension sharing, says the Ministry of Justice. Divorce law …
It’s tough work bringing up a child. There’s the lack of sleep; the constant worry; the books unread; the career opportunities missed; the relentlessness of the school and after-school club pick-up and drop-off cycle; and …
Robbie Williams: not even so much as an OBEIt’s tough to produce enough legislation to make big companies and rich individuals pay all the tax the man in the street thinks they should. Doesn’t matter …
Lloyds “has dealt a blow to existing customers by hacking at the rewards for its popular Avios Rewards credit cards”, says Emma Gunn on ThisIsMoney. Lloyds closed its Avios Rewards scheme to new members back …
Pressure is mounting on ministers to relax rules that mean thousands of people have missed out on state pension benefits by failing to register for child benefit. Parents of newborns who decide to take time …