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1. | Why a little bit of marketing does you good, especially at Christmas
My grandpa, who's a Quaker, used to disapprove of the fact that I ventured into marketing, but he's coming round to my way of thinking, even at the grand age of 92. He is suspicious of marketing (in his mind - a term synonymous with extracting money from ...
[Added: 17 Nov 2005 Hits: 567 Words: 548]
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2. | Store cards, credit cards and loans - how to borrow money effectively.
You don't have to have the lifestyle demands of Paris Hilton to need extra money these days. According to Credit Action, the total UK personal debt was 1,122 billion, a growth of about 10.5% over the previous year and in the UK and each adult in the UK has an ...
[Added: 20 Oct 2005 Hits: 401 Words: 574]
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3. | The myth of the Christmas loan
If you think Harry Potter was going to be the most imaginative marketing plot this Christmas, think again. Each Christmas as consumers look at their finances and investigate the different sources of funding to cover their Christmas shopping, loan companies and credit card providers polish up their marketing tactics ...
[Added: 13 Oct 2005 Hits: 270 Words: 596]
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4. | Home A Loan
The number of homeowners taking out secured loans is set to slow down over the next five years according to analysts at Datamonitor. Over the past five years the market for secured loans has increased by over ...
[Added: 29 Sep 2005 Hits: 421 Words: 505]
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5. | Don't let your personal loan become a personal moan
Most of us have been in a position at some point when we simply have had insufficient funds to pay for something. This could be car insurance/repairs, course fees, holiday, Christmas presents, electrical items or even the weekly ...
[Added: 28 Sep 2005 Hits: 277 Words: 541]
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6. | Inside insurance - protection priorities
Protecting your home
Although you have no legal obligation to insure your home, your mortgage company will want to protect their investment with buildings insurance. However, it is also worth protecting your own investments, so even after you've paid off your ...
[Added: 26 Sep 2005 Hits: 446 Words: 1095]
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7. | Are you suffering from payment protection overload?
There are so many types of payment protection insurance around that it can be difficult to know where to start. This article provides a brief summary of the different types of payment protection insurance and how they can help you.
Critical illness insurance: ...
[Added: 26 Sep 2005 Hits: 481 Words: 713]
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8. | Critical illness insurance and life insurance cover for better and for worse.
There are three main types of insurance cover you can buy to protect yourself and your family: life insurance, private medical insurance and critical illness insurance. If you want your financial health to be completely bionic then you could ...
[Added: 15 Sep 2005 Hits: 484 Words: 486]
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9. | Critical illness insurance - critical or ridicule?
Critical illness cover (CIC) is a type of insurance which provides a significant one-off payment if you are diagnosed with a specified life-threatening condition – specified being the important term, because if your illness isn't in the terms and conditions – you won't get the payment. ...
[Added: 14 Sep 2005 Hits: 274 Words: 647]
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10. | How to clean up your personal finances...
Are you one of those people who doesn't open their bank or credit card statements? Do you take out store cards on the spur of the moment? Have you been with the same bank simply because it is ...
[Added: 07 Sep 2005 Hits: 326 Words: 603]
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11. | Personal finance - why you should compare, not despair
Sorting out your personal finances can be a tricky and exasperating time. Whether you are looking to obtain money through a loan, protect your finances with life insurance, medical, travel or car insurance, save some money through an individual savings account (ISA), apply for a credit card ...
[Added: 06 Sep 2005 Hits: 370 Words: 449]
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12. | Personal finance - have consumers had a belly full of personal debt?
For months, we were trigger-swipe happy, putting our groceries, clothes, holidays and service charges on our credit cards. We wanted mortgages, we took out loans, we watched Property Ladder and What Not To Wear. Whether you were born middle class, had middle class aspirations, ...
[Added: 02 Sep 2005 Hits: 295 Words: 429]
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13. | Life insurance, the universe and everything
You may have noticed that life insurance is coming back into fashion. It's true that it may not be the financial term on everybody's lips, but sales of life insurance have been going up, according to the Association of British Insurers. Whilst we may not be saving the volume of ...
[Added: 31 Aug 2005 Hits: 965 Words: 680]
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14. | Life insurance: why there's no need to be a desperate housewife.
Contemplating what may happen to your wife (or husband) and children if you die is not likely to be a thought you wish to contemplate. However, avoiding the issue may make life more difficult for your family after your death.
Life insurance ...
[Added: 24 Aug 2005 Hits: 286 Words: 546]
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15. | Global warming: why consumers and insurers are getting hot under the collar over life insurance.
Global warming may have been lurking on our horizon for a number of years and historical records of terrorists have existed for thousands of years, but we are coming into a new age where we try and financially protect ourselves against ...
[Added: 18 Aug 2005 Hits: 292 Words: 537]
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16. | Life insurance - wise investment in personal finance or excessive caution?
Life insurance is typically taken out to offer valuable financial protection for your family in the event of your death, upon which a payment is made to your financial beneficiaries, heirs or family members. The extent of this payment will ...
[Added: 05 Aug 2005 Hits: 289 Words: 606]
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17. | The Debt Test: are you making out a mountain out of your mortgage?
According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, first-time buyers are the most susceptible group of homeowners to debt, as they are more likely to have higher loan-to-value ratios and commit a higher proportion of their income to mortgage repayments. Despite their susceptibility to debt, there ...
[Added: 13 Jul 2005 Hits: 265 Words: 518]
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18. | Inflexible friends and plastic assets, why money isn't buying love anymore
Consumers reject financial advice in favour of financial frivolity
It would appear that even though their “friends” aren’t as flexible as they used to be, consumers are still stretching their credit cards beyond the comfort zone.
The vicious circle of debt manipulation involving banks, ...
[Added: 30 Jun 2005 Hits: 1782 Words: 492]
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19. | Blair bribes parents and children into higher education
Government financial assistance for pre-university education
It would seem that the media mania over the cost of an education is finally paying off, with the UK government taking increasingly strong measures to maintain the current level of school leavers moving into ...
[Added: 22 Jun 2005 Hits: 425 Words: 716]
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20. | War of the Worlds: Student Finance versus Life
It’s a worrying time for current and prospective students. Figures from the Prudential, show that a third of UK university students have considered abandoning their studies due to the financial strain they have encountered. It is not ...
[Added: 15 Jun 2005 Hits: 1779 Words: 432]
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21. | Mr and Mrs Smith go online, as internet technology moves from fantasy to normality
Whilst not all Smiths lead the glamorous technological lifestyles of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the number of British consumers using online financial services continues to grow rapidly.
According to NOP World, 48% of all Internet users researched or purchased financial products such as ...
[Added: 14 Jun 2005 Hits: 344 Words: 310]
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22. | Kippers or red herrings?
Recent news has made much of parents stretching their finances to cover costs for their twenty and thirty something children. Debts and high property prices have forced many offspring to return home, tail between legs, under the ...
[Added: 10 Jun 2005 Hits: 440 Words: 426]
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23. | The changing shape of family finances
Families are becoming an increasingly complex unit when it comes to money management. Parents work longer hours, couples spend less time with each other & children are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their material wants & information needs. Whilst centralising funds is important in the family, ...
[Added: 02 Jun 2005 Hits: 324 Words: 717]
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