It’s not easy being rich. Times may be tough for the ordinary man in the street – what with fast-rising mortgage rates, record levels of personal debt, the pensions crisis, the ever-rising tax burden and …
Why it’s not easy being rich
Category: Personal Finance
Why save cash just to chuck it away?
This article is taken from Merryn Somerset Webb’s free weekly personal finance email, MoneySense. Click here to sign up now: MoneySense There is something odd about the way people finance their retirement. Take equity release. …
Why good A levels are bad news for parents
This article is taken from Merryn Somerset Webb’s free weekly personal finance email, MoneySense. Click here to sign up now: MoneySense This weekend’s newspapers made depressing reading for hard up parents. Every teenager in the …
What makes September 1st a special day?
This article is taken from Merryn Somerset Webb’s free weekly personal finance email, MoneySense. Click here to sign up now: MoneySense What makes September 1st a special day? The fact that it is the day …
The woman who makes £100,000 a day
This article is taken from Merryn Somerset Webb’s free weekly personal finance email, MoneySense. Click here to sign up now: MoneySense The personal finance sections of the Sunday newspapers aren’t always the bits that members …
The hard way to buy car insurance
Anyone over 30 will remember what an awful thing trying to get car insurance used to be. You had to set aside several hours, get out the yellow pages and call around for quotes. This …
The best payment protection: don’t borrow so much
This feature is part of our FREE weekly personal finance email, MoneySense, written by MoneyWeek editor, Merryn Somerset Webb. To sign up for MoneySense, click here: free personal finance email More properties were repossessed in 2006 than in …
The best way to save on foreign currency this summer
This article is taken from Merryn Somerset Webb’s free weekly personal finance email, MoneySense. Click here to sign up now: MoneySense As the weather at home gets worse and worse the eyes of the UK’s …
Post-nups: worth it for a £2m house?
This article is taken from Merryn Somerset Webb’s free weekly personal finance email, MoneySense. Click here to sign up now: MoneySense On my book website (www.loveisnotenough.co.uk) I have an ‘Ask Merryn’ section. Here anyone who …
Is the debt binge over?
This feature is part of our weekly personal finance email, MoneySense. If you’d like to sign up, click here: Free personal finance email In 2004 the national savings rate in the UK was about 3.4% …