Savings Accounts Articles: News, Guides & Advice
Many savers are not going to have enough money to live on when they retire, Hargreaves Lansdown has said.
5 Sep 08The automatic-enrolment system, to be introduced in 2012, might result in the closure of many workplace pensions schemes.
5 Sep 08The sell-off of a workplace scheme comes in order to cover the communications firm against future pension payments.
4 Sep 08Women seem especially vulnerable to the fears, which centre around a perceived lack of savings to fund a comfortable retirement.
3 Sep 08The PPF was very active last month, stepping in to rescue an unusually high number of insolvent retirement savings schemes.
3 Sep 08The funds have been outperformed by the FTSE All-Shares Index over the past ten years, according to an IFA.
2 Sep 08Pensioners could lose out on hundreds of pounds for each month before their income begins, analysis from the firm has shown.
1 Sep 08The system is still not "perfect", following the introduction of new voluntary guidelines on ISA transfers.
1 Sep 08The tax advantages of investing in a CTF were strongly affirmed today by an IFAs' group.
1 Sep 08Most people are using their savings to fund upgrades to their properties, the lender has found.
1 Sep 08Divorced partners who split pension benefits between them are to gain greater flexibility in how they can spend these retirement savings.
29 Aug 08The "savings war" has been good for customers, Defaqto has said - but they were also advised by the firm to shop around carefully for an account.
28 Aug 08A mainstream savings account would have outperformed the average unit trust over the past eight years, the BBC reports.
28 Aug 08The new guidelines have been jointly launched by banks, building societies and Tisa.
27 Aug 08Drama and sports lessons are stretching parents budgets - with just one in twenty saving any money for them.
27 Aug 08The generous schemes are continuing to close - and their scarcity is also providing employers with a way of retaining their best workers.
26 Aug 08Pensions minister Mike O'Brien is under fire for the upcoming benefits changes, which means that pensioners have a much shorter time in which to claim money back.
21 Aug 08Around one in ten people interested are the system are not Muslim, a provider has claimed.
20 Aug 08The £250 voucher which launches each fund should be boosted to £288 to keep up with inflation, the firm says.
20 Aug 08With savings accounts rates unusually high, people who dip in to their accounts to fund their trips are missing out on £3 billion a year in interest.
19 Aug 08Many child trust funds are allowed to expire by parents, new analysis from the financial firm has shown.
18 Aug 08The impact of a heart attack is well known - but new analysis calls for its impact on pension savings to be taken into consideration, too.
15 Aug 08Saving up to buy a big-ticket item - or even just to spend on a whim - is becoming preferable to using credit for many.
15 Aug 08Looking to see what their pension fund is investing in is being deliberately put off by many people - just like a check-up at the dentist.
14 Aug 08Get 7.2% AER on your savings guaranteed for 12 months with ICICI Banks's HiSave account.
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