A visit to the dentist these days is unpleasantly expensive as well as plain unpleasant. The government’s attempt to make it easier for people to get state-funded care through reforms this April resulted in about …
This feature is part of our FREE daily Money Morning email. If you’d like to sign up, please click here: sign up for Money Morning. Britain has managed to trounce the rest of Europe once …
We’ve all seen the headlines. ‘Consumer debt crisis deepens as bankruptcies hit a 40-year record’; ‘Property repossessions up 51%’; ‘Doorstep lender issues profits warning’; and ‘HSBC hit by difficult credit markets’. But the current state …
Portman Building Society’s 1.8 million members can expect payouts of at least £200 each after the society’s merger with Nationwide. Merger activity is being driven by the potential for building societies, or mutuals, to cut …
The recent terror alerts that sparked chaos at airports across the country not only disrupted travel plans, but also affected insurance claims. Regardless of how badly delayed you were, the majority of insurance policies will …
If you pay tax through self-assessment, as more than nine million of us do, you may be thinking of doing nothing until January. However, if you meet the 30 September deadline, HM Revenue and Customs …
We all scrabble around looking for the hottest investments, the keenest funds and the best rates on our savings. But there is another, vastly overlooked way of accumulating more wealth: spending less. The good news …
Whenever we ask readers which parts of the magazine they like best, one of the top answers (after the property pages, of course) is the short ‘Tax Dodge of the Week’ column on the personal …
The Christmas season is also survey season. As our minds and our wallets turn to pleasure buying the financial service firms will survey anything and anyone in bid to get their names in the papers …
The illusionist David Copperfield is a truly remarkable man. Mugged at gunpoint in Florida last week, he apparently used ‘magic’ to make the robbers think that his pockets were empty. They gave up and ran …