Analysis Topic: Personal Finance
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
FSA Plans to Review UK Retirement Annuity Pricing / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
By: MoneyFacts
Following the announcement that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to conduct a thematic review into annuity pricing, research by Investment Life & Pensions Moneyfacts highlights the financial detriment that consumers could suffer in retirement as a result of their failure to shop around for the best annuity.
The table below highlights the difference between the most competitive annuity and least competitive annuity deals currently available to retirees at a variety of different ages.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
How to Tell If You’re Rich / Personal_Finance / Money Saving
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: One of the biggest points of contention in the last election was whether the rich pay their fair share of taxes. Polls show the majority of voters don’t believe they do.
Of course, this begs the questions: Who is “rich” and what is “fair?”
Answers are largely a matter of opinion. But here is a fact: IRS figures show that the top 10% of income earners make 43% of all the income and pay 70% of all the taxes. Is that fair? If not, how much should they pay: 75%… 90%… all of it? And how about the now widely recognized fact – thanks to Mitt Romney’s secret videographer – that 47% of Americans don’t pay any income taxes. Is that fair? Opinions will vary.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Intense Inflation Misery for Weary Savers / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Inflation figures released today show the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) in December stuck at 2.7%.
To beat inflation, a basic rate taxpayer at 20% needs to find a savings account paying 3.37% per annum, while a higher rate taxpayer at 40% needs to find an account paying at least 4.50%.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013
UK Pension Annuity Income Suffers Biggest Fall Since 1998 / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
By: MoneyFacts
New research by Investment Life and Pensions Moneyfacts has revealed that the average annual income generated by a standard annuity for a 65-year old male fell by 11.5% during 2012. This is the biggest annual fall since 1998, when annuity income fell by an average of 13.7% (see Table 1 below).
The equivalent annuity income for a female dropped by 6.1% in 2012, a fall that was cushioned by the uplift that females received on the switch over to gender neutral pricing from 21 December 2012.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013
UK Saving Accounts Fast Disappearing Bonus Interest Rates / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Just when savers thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did. Moneyfacts research shows that not only are savings rates falling to devastating lows but introductory bonuses are all but disappearing too.
The table below shows the number of accounts over the last three years, including August 2012 when Funding for Lending was launched as an indication of what happened to accounts straight after launch.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
No UK CPI Inflation Christmas Gift for UK Savers / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Inflation figures released today show the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) remained at 2.7% during November.
To beat inflation, a basic rate taxpayer at 20% needs to find a savings account paying 3.37% per annum, while a higher rate taxpayer at 40% needs to find an account paying at least 4.50%.
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Home Winter Weather Proofing 22 Point Survey, Save Energy & Repair Bills / Personal_Finance / Home Maintenance
By: Sami_Walayat
Conducting a preventative home winter weather proofing survey can save on costly repair bills such as damage form blocked drains, gutters, leaking roofs, and burst pipes, as well as saving on excessive energy usage due to drafts, lack of insulation and boiler problems.
This comprehensive 22 point video DIY home survey will show you all of the main areas that should be covered that has the potential of saving £ thousands each year.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
The UK Saving Accounts Vanishing Act / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts research reveals 351 savings accounts have been withdrawn from the market since the start of the year, 191 of which were withdrawn in November 2012 alone. The research also revealed the number of savings accounts paying above BoE base rate fell by 304 accounts from January 2012, and 162 of these have been withdrawn since the start of November.
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Wednesday, December 05, 2012
UK Fixed Rate Savings Bond Interest Rates At All Time Low / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts research reveals the average rate of fixed term bonds across every term from one year bonds all the way through to five year bonds has dramatically fallen to an all time low.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Truth Behind Governments Funding For Lending Scheme (FLS) / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans
By: MoneyFacts
The Government’s Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) opened for business on 1 August with the number one aim of kick-starting the economy by making mortgages and SME lending much more accessible. To date, 30 lenders have taken up the offer of access to cheap loans.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
UK Government’s Funding for Lending Devastates Savings Market / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts research reveals that the UK savings market is being decimated by the Government’s Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS), which allows lenders to borrow from the Government at vastly reduced rates, negating their need to raise funds via the traditional method of savings.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Halifax illustrates Cash ISA Savings Catastrophe, Which Best ISA Now? / Personal_Finance / ISA's
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Britain's savers continue to fight a losing battle to maintain purchasing power of savings following the financial crash of four years ago since which time savings interest rates have tended to languish below even the official highly suspect CPI inflation rate, that never reflects the rising cost of peoples weekly shops. Britain's whole savings market reeks of being a fraudulent enterprise that exists purely to transfer wealth from savers over to the banks and government (taxes). In which respect cash ISA's offered some hope to at least avoid the tax element of the stealth theft underway.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
The Most Important U.S. Tax Moves Before December 31 / Personal_Finance / Taxes
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: In his acceptance speech after his re-election, President Obama said he will make reducing the deficit a priority in his second term. During the long campaign, neither he nor Mitt Romney gave many details about how much they would cut from which programs. But Obama did make some very specific tax proposals.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Credit Card Interest Rates Hit 18-month High / Personal_Finance / Credit Cards & Scoring
By: MoneyFacts
While there is an abundance of interest-free purchase and balance transfer deals hitting the market, consumers need to be aware that the average purchase rate on credit cards has hit an 18-month high.
With customers generally taking advantage of interest-free deals, lenders need to sustain the offers, so rates are rising.
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Friday, November 02, 2012
Will The Inflation Monster Devour Your Savings? / Personal_Finance / Inflation
By: DeviantInvestor
Inflation will destroy your savings unless you prepare. I encourage you to buy my new eBook, “Survival Investing With Gold and Silver.”
Question: Is this book simple and easy to understand?
Answer: Yes!
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Two Simple Financial Rules Young People Should Learn to Live by / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans
By: DailyWealth
Porter Stansberry writes: Aaron Brabham: So Porter, it turns out we have a new demographic that we never sought to attract... the 20- to 25-year-olds.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
What Happens When a Fixed Rate Bonds Mature? / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
In these days of low returns, fixed rate bonds have for many become the savings vehicle of choice but what happens when the term comes to an end? Confusingly, there are three correct answers to this question.
- Some providers will send you your money back
- Some providers will put your money into a pre-designated account
- Some providers will contact you
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The Best Cash ISA for Beating Bankster Fraud and Government Money Printing Inflation / Personal_Finance / ISA's
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Britain's savers have been fighting a losing battle since October 2008 when the crash in UK interest rates began following the Prime Minister of the time Gordon Brown taking control of monetary policy from a fumbling mumbling paralysed Governor of the Bank of England and started the ball rolling by announcing the first of a series of interest rate cuts all the way to 0.5% barely 5 months later by March 2009.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Student Loan Debt Slavery, Is College Worth It? / Personal_Finance / Student Finances
By: LewRockwell
Economic Collapse writes: Every single year, millions of young adults head off to colleges and universities all over America full of hopes and dreams. But what most of those fresh-faced youngsters do not realize is that by taking on student loan debt they are signing up for a life of debt slavery. Student loan debt has become a trillion dollar bubble which has shattered the financial lives of tens of millions of young college graduates. When you are just starting out and you are not making a lot of money, having to make payments on tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt can be absolutely crippling. The total amount of student loan debt in the United States has now surpassed the total amount of credit card debt, and student loan debt is much harder to get rid of. Many young people view college as a "five year party", but when the party is over millions of those young people basically end up as modern day serfs as they struggle to pay off all of the debt that they have accumulated during their party years. Bankruptcy laws have been changed to make it incredibly difficult to get rid of student loan debt, so once you have it you are basically faced with two choices: either you are going to pay it or you are going to die with it.
Friday, September 07, 2012
Taxmageddon 2013: How to Prepare for Looming Tax Law Changes / Personal_Finance / Taxes
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
It's often said the only things certain in life are death and taxes - but this year, even taxes aren't a certainty.
At least not the specifics, thanks to Election 2012 and Taxmageddon 2013. Investors are left with more questions than answers.
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