Analysis Topic: Personal Finance
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Top Fixed Rate Savings Bond Highest in 10 months / Personal_Finance / Saving Bonds
By: John_Mauldin
Challenger banks are causing a storm in the fixed rate bond market, with especially the highest rates in the market seeing an increase. The top one-year fixed rate bond has increased to 2.00%, up by 0.60% since January and the first time in 10 months a one-year fixed rate has stood at 2.00% or higher.
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Sunday, February 26, 2017
Ten KitKat Personalised Packs for FREE! / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
We have now received our 10 personalised kitkat packs, which apparently is the maximum number per address. This is supposed to be a competition but in reality kitkat are giving away 10 personalised packs per household given the large number of 1000 packs being made available per DAY! So do get your free personalised packs before the promotion ends on 29th of March 2017 and find out what you get in the post in our latest video in this series.
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Monday, February 20, 2017
The Smiggle Pencil Case Children's Craze - Addicted! / Personal_Finance / Reviews
By: Anika_Walayat
Most of us will remember pencil cases as being inconsequential small cloth bags to hold a few pens and pencils. Not anymore! Anika like an increasing number of children is fully immersed in a new craze, one of EXPENSIVE pencil cases! Not 1, not 2 but approaching half a dozen! And Smiggles is feeding this craze with its range of highly innovative pencil crazes that press all the right buttons that has kids in classrooms (especially girls) competing with one another of who has the best and new case. With the added dimension of swapping contents, the cases soon fill up with enough contents for a whole classroom to last a year!
Monday, February 20, 2017
UK Long-term Fixed Savings Bond Interest Rates Rise / Personal_Finance / Saving Bonds
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts UK Savings Trends Treasury Report data, yet to be published, highlights that the average long-term fixed bond rate has increased by 0.05% to 1.30%, the first time Moneyfacts has seen a significant rate rise of 0.05% or more since October 2015.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
A Snapshot of My Retirement Strategy and Why it’s Not Like Yours / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
By: Harry_Dent
I think most of you intuit that I’m not like the normal guy out there. I think outside the box, analyze everything, respect and revere cycles as much as I hate them for their downside and discipline.The truth is, I’m an entrepreneur, more than I am an economist. In fact, I think economics is mostly a load of B.S., and there are only three classical economists I pay any attention to: Dr. Lacy Hunt, Steve Keen, and Robert Shiller.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
How Trump Border Adjustment Will Affect Your Wallet / Personal_Finance / Money Saving
By: Rodney_Johnson
Economic theories don’t get much play at cocktail parties, and there’s a good reason.They’re boring.
Who wants to talk about the Phillips Curve, the Taylor Rule, or Triffin Dilemma? They might have cool names, but once you dive into the details, the emotion goes flatter than a day-old beer.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
How to Easily Win a PS4 Games Console in Walkers UEFA Snap and Share Promo / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Sami_Walayat
The Walkers Crisps UEFA Snap and Share promotion is proving to be an relatively easy to win competition as so far just 12 days into the promotion we have already won 1 of 7000 footballs and also just won 1 of 500 PS4 games console plus soccer games! The promotion is proving to be very easy to enter and win a prize, so find out in our latest video of how you too could win a PS4 in this promotion that still has well over 2 months to run! And also maybe even win one of the top prizes which is 1 of 40 UEFA match tickets.
Monday, February 13, 2017
KitKat 100% Easy to Win Personalised Prize Packs Promotion! / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
Here an update of KitKat's current promotion that allows buyers of the multi-packs to enter a code and win a personalised four fingered pack. I was skeptical at first but it looks like I have won 10 out of 10 entries! Find out what it's all about in my latest video to make sure you don't miss out on what looks like being a 100% winnable promotion! Yes the prize may not have much face value i.e. a four finger kitkat bar, but having your own factory printed photo wrapper makes all the difference in terms of sentimental value. So if you already buy kitkat's then what do you have to lose ? Nothing! and NO I don't work for kitkat! It's just that after Walkers Crisps Spell & Go con it is a refreshing change to have a promo that actually allows normal people, apparently everyone who enters to win!
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Sunday, February 12, 2017
Plenty Kitchen Towels 432 Prizes to Be Easily Won in New Promo With Tesco / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
Plenty kitchen towels are running a new promotion running in conjunction with Tesco. No it's not the Trolls, that ended in December. In this promo you can relatively easily win 1 of 432 prizes that include PS4's, I-pads, Fit-bits, £100 tesco vouchers and more. Find out what its all about and how to win some great prizes in my video. Also note that the weekly promo that ends on the 7th of March with a late entries draw to be held on 31st March, so don't waste time! You have 4 weeks to win!
Friday, February 10, 2017
Walkers Crisps Snap & Share 1st Win - UCL Finale Capitano Football! / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
This is an update in the Walkers Crisps Snap & Share promotion, an easy to enter comp in conjunction with UEFA Champions League where entrants can win one of - 40 pairs of match tickets, 500 play stations and 7000 footballs. After only 5 days of posting 3 pic's a day on Walkers pinned post facebook page we managed to win an adidas UCL Finale 16 Capitano Football, so unlike last years Spell and Go disaster, this years Walkers promotion is actually converting into prizes. Of course footballs numbering 7000 are by far the easiest to win, so find out what prizes we are next targeting to win.
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Sunday, February 05, 2017
Walkers Crisps Snap & Share Top Tips for Winning Prizes, PS4, Match Tickets / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
Walkers Crisps have just started a new promotion in conjunction with UEFA Champions League where you can win prizes including 40 pairs of match tickets, 500 play stations and 7000 footballs. Here are our top tips for how you can maximise prizes whilst minimising costs i.e. it is not necessary to buy loads of crisp packets for codes to win prizes! Find out in our top tips video.
Saturday, February 04, 2017
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge - How to USB Smart Switch Transfer App's, Data and Settings (E4) / Personal_Finance / Mobile Technology
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Here's a quick way to get your new samsung phone setup with data and software and settings easily transferred over form your old samsung phone using the smart switch USB transfer dongle that comes with many if not most new samsung phones such as the S7. It really does work as this video illustrates, and can even get most of the stuff off of dying old phone! Though there will be some app's it won't achieve transfer of settings over for instance Whatsapp will need a little more work.
Saturday, February 04, 2017
KitKat Easy to Win Personalised Packs Promotion, 1000 Prizes Every Day! / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
KitKat has just launched a very, very easy to win promotion where the prize is a personalised 4 finger KitKat bar with your own picture and message on it. KitKat are making 1000 prizes available EVERY DAY which is why this really is an easy to win promotion i.e. so far we have won EVERY entry we have made.
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Friday, February 03, 2017
Walkers UEFA Snap & Share To Win Match Tickets, PS4 and Footballs / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
Walkers have just started a new promotion in conjunction with UEFA Champions League where buyers of crisp packets could win prizes including 40 pairs of match tickets, 500 play stations and 7000 footballs. All you have to do is to share a selfie that contains the top of your face with the crisp packet. Confused? Watch the video and all will become clear.
Thursday, February 02, 2017
Tesco Supermarket Tomatoes vs Homegrown - Which is Better, Bigger? / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Sami_Walayat
Now is the right time of year to get started growing your own vegetables of which given the high shop prices tomatoes should be at the top of ones grow our own list. So exactly what difference can one expect between home grown tomatoes, say on a window sill and supermarket shop bought tomatoes such as from Tesco? Find out in this video.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Grow Your Own Tomatoes From Seed - Step by Step Easy Money Saving Guide / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Sami_Walayat
Now is the right time of year to get started growing your own vegetables of which given the high shop prices tomatoes should be at the top of ones list. In this comprehensive guide, 9 year old Sami shows literally how anyone, even a child can easily grow hundreds of tomatoes indoors in a small pot from seed germination, to planting, to hand pollination, to pruning and then enjoying the fruits for a whole years worth of money saving crops of healthy fresh organically home grown tomatoes, good for your financial and physical health as well as delivering a lot of self satisfaction.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge - First Use (E3) / Personal_Finance / Mobile Technology
By: Adnaan_Walayat
What to expect from a Samsung Galaxy S7 on first use, the first time you turn the device on after unboxing and inserting a nano sim into the device which we covered in our previous two videos in this series.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
HMRC Self Assessment Online Filing System Down as Tax Return Deadline 2017 Looms / Personal_Finance / UK Tax & Budget
By: N_Walayat
HMRC's online system has been down for many if not most users for several hours today as the deadline for filing self assessment tax returns looms large (31st of Jan 2017). Tax payers trying to log into the system are typically met with the following message -
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
UK Current Account Sweeteners That Can Turn Sour / Personal_Finance / Current Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Current accounts can offer some fantastic perks for switchers or savers, but if consumers failed to grab a top deal last year they would be disappointed to know that some banks have clawed back their perks.
Additionally, using the overdraft facility on some of these accounts over a long period can turn upfront cash sweeteners quite sour. The Current Account Switch Guarantee is well established, following its launch in 2013, but the latest research by Moneyfacts.co.uk can reveal that cash switching incentives, which could be a big enticement to switch, are in fact being cut down.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Rising UK Inflation Means it’s Still a Dreadful time to be a Saver / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Data from Moneyfacts.co.uk can reveal that rate reductions in the savings market have now outweighed rate rises for 15 consecutive months.
In December, Moneyfacts recorded 21 savings rate rises. Disappointingly, rate reductions over the same period outshone this figure, with the number of rate decreases standing at 84 – which translates to four cuts to every rate rise – and some deals falling by as much as 0.60%, much higher than the current Bank of England Base Rate of 0.25%.
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