Analysis Topic: Personal Finance
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Half Price Entry to Alton Towers and Sea Life Theme Parks 2018 With Carex / Personal_Finance / Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Carex is back for summer 2018 with their half price entry to Alton Towers and Sea Life promotion. So don't pay the full entrance price, instead watch our video of how you can easily achieve half price admission to these two popular Merlin attractions.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Turbo Bubble Fountain Bubbles Machine for Kids Summer Fun Activities - VR 360 / Personal_Finance / Money Saving
By: Anika_Walayat
Summer has finally arrived here in the UK and so here's a great idea for keeping the kids occupied and active in the garden at little cost, a bubble making machine! You don't need to spend more than £10 to £15 to get hold of a decent machine that will flood your garden with gazillions of bubbles as here we test the Turbo Bubble Fountain that helps the bubbles by blowing them upwards (VR 360) and which currently sells for £15 (excluding batteries), but is similar in function to many other bubble machines in it's price range.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
UK Savings Shock as Rates Were cut Before Base Interest Rate Vote / Personal_Finance / Saving Bonds
By: MoneyFacts
Savers still deflated from last week’s base rate announcement will now have to stomach the fact that the savings market has undergone a bit of a stumble. As the market prepared itself for a base rate change, there were unforeseen savings rate cuts, with some deals disappearing altogether.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018
UK Online Gambling Market Grows According to UKGC / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: Varun_Kumar
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
UK Base Rate Remains on hold – What it Means for Savers and Borrowers / Personal_Finance / UK Interest Rates
By: MoneyFacts
The lead-up to the Bank of England’s latest base rate decision has been a rocky road, with the markets changing their prediction from odds on to unlikely in the space of a few days. Today’s announcement to keep interest rates on hold confirms this past week’s predictions, and is likely to be met with frustration by savers and relief by borrowers.
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
UK Savings and Mortgage Markets Picks of the Week - Tandem Bank, Post office Money, Leeds BS and Tesco / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
The moneyfacts.co.uk Pick of the Week showcases the best of the latest products or rate changes to hit the consumer finance market.
Brief product details together with independent Moneyfacts analysis can be used with confidence in your finance sections. You can select one or two products to sit beside a relevant story or use them all as a general feature.
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Sunday, May 06, 2018
How to Deal With a Suspended Driving License / Personal_Finance / Motoring
By: Anwar_Hossain
If you have a suspended driving license, it means your driving rights have been withdrawn temporarily, because of driving under the influence of drugs (DUIs) or having no car insurance.It is a crime to drive a vehicle when your driving license has been revoked according to the California Vehicle Code 14601 VC. Besides, you can face severe suspensions from both federal courts and the California Department of Motor vehicles (DMV). The good news is that there are ways to reinstate your driver’s license.
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Saturday, May 05, 2018
Land Rover Discovery Sport Rear View Reverse Camera Test / Personal_Finance / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
Here's a test of the Land Rover Discovery Sports rear view reversing camera installed as standard on HSE and above, whilst available as optional extras on lower trims for the DISCO Sport model. We compare what is shown on the Disco's display against what is actually happening as you reverse your car i.e. how well does the screen display and warning bars compare against how much space you actually have left i.e. too much space and your not parking properly! Too little space which would be disastrous!
Thursday, May 03, 2018
Top Tips for Beating Spinning Pull Up Bar 2Min Challenge at Alton Towers Theme Park / Personal_Finance / Theme Parks
By: Anika_Walayat
Britain's summer theme park season is about to begin, when theme parks will be packed full of visitors where you are likely to see the pull up bar challenge such as at Alton Towers. Basically you have to hold on with both hands palms in the same direction for 2 minutes. If you win you get giant cuddly toy. Current price for a go at Alton Towers is £3. So, here Adnaan aged 16 and Anika aged 9, who can hold onto a standard pull up bar for a good 3 minutes thought it should be pretty straightforward to hang on for 2 mins and win the challenge.
Wednesday, May 02, 2018
UK Pension Funds Performance Deteriorates in Q1 2018 / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
By: MoneyFacts
New data from the latest Moneyfacts UK Personal Pension Trends Treasury Report has revealed deteriorating pension fund performance in Q1 2018 at a time when members of auto-enrolment schemes are seeing their mandatory minimum contribution rates rise from 1% to 3%.
The report shows how after a run of positive gains in the previous nine quarters the average pension fund registered a loss for the first time since Q3 2015, falling by 3.8%.
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Monday, April 30, 2018
Big Banks Punish Loyal Savings Customers With Abysmal Interest Rates / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Savers who turn to the most familiar banks* to hunt for a good savings deal may feel it’s a logical place to start, but they may want to think twice. If savers are looking for a top rate on an easy access account, then they are likely to be disappointed if they ignore the less familiar brands.
In fact, according to the latest moneyfacts.co.uk research, the difference between the best easy access account on the market versus the worst big bank rate would cost savers £250 a year in interest (based on a £20,000 initial deposit). As rates continue to improve away from the biggest banks*, it may be a good time for savers to reconsider more unfamiliar brands to get the best possible return.
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
Gardening Money Saving by Reseeding Spent Flower Baskets for New Summer Growth / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
Here's how Anika's flower baskets that she bought from Tesco at a bargain price of just 50p each grew from May right through to February of the following year when it was time to reseed them. It's really child's play to reseed flower baskets, so don't bin last years spent flower baskets because you could literally get years of new growth out of them at little extra expense.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Credit Card's Loyalty Stretched as Cash Back Rewards Culled / Personal_Finance / Credit Cards & Scoring
By: MoneyFacts
Shoppers looking to get a little back when they spend often turn to reward or cashback credit cards. Unfortunately, if customers look closely at the rewards they get when they spend, they might feel they are getting get back very little back on their spending, particularly in comparison to a few years ago.
One reason for this decline stems from a shake-up in the credit card market in 2015, when the EU interchange fee cap ruling was implemented. Its purpose was to save consumers money at the tills by capping the transaction fee for using their card. Yet, as a result, consumers are now facing a cull in the number of rewards and cashback credit card offers, as providers pull back their generosity.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
UK Gambling Statistics - What the Numbers Say / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: Varun_Kumar
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
SWEATCOIN - Get PAID to WALK! Incentive to Burn Fat and Lose Weight - Review / Personal_Finance / Health and Fitness
By: HGR
In my quest to lose some excess body fat in advance of summer by increasing my level of physical activity, I went on the hunt for some smart phone app's that would help enable me to to burn those extra calories per day and I soon came across SWEATCOIN. Firstly, it's not as the name suggests anything to do with crypto currencies. Instead sweatcoin apparently pays you to walk! Specifically as a sweatcoin app user you will earn 1 sweatcoin per 1000 steps taken outdoors, all of which is tracked and verified through your phones GPS.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
UK Savings Accounts that Finally Beat CPI Inflation / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
At a time when savers are striving to get their nest egg to work harder for them, they may be disappointed to know that monthly interest accounts are failing to offer the same rates available as alternative interest payment options. So, while they may assume they are getting more interest, this may not always be the case. If annual interest is offered, it usually pays more than the monthly option.
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Monday, April 16, 2018
UK Savings Fixed Rates Highest in Almost Two Years / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts UK Savings Trends Treasury Report data (not yet published) shows that all the fixed rate averages (ISAs and non-ISAs) have increased this month, with all the rates reaching the highest point seen in almost two years.
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Monday, April 16, 2018
Look Inside a Caravan at UK Holiday Park for Summer 2018 - Hoseasons Cayton Bay Sea Side / Personal_Finance / Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Thinking of booking a caravan park summer holiday in the UK 2018? Then look no further than this series of videos of what it's like to holiday at a UK caravan park. This is at the Hoseasons Caravan Park at Cayton Bay, North East England, not 10 miles from Scarborough. In our second video in this series we take a look at what it's like to step foot inside one of parks big caravans. This has 3 bedrooms, and as you will see it's literally like a tardis, how do they manage to cram so much into such a small space? Find out what to expect.
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Retirement Expectations of Consumers Fall Short / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
By: MoneyFacts
• Over a quarter of consumers under the age of 45 only expect to retire after the age of 70
• 14.8% of consumers under the age of 45 worry they’ll never be able to retire
• 79.5% of those aged between 45 and 64 hope to retire by 65
• More than half of respondents knew exactly how much is in their pension pot
• Respondents desire for 63% of their current annual income to be their pension income
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Sunday, April 08, 2018
Legoland, Alton Towers Theme Parks ... Grown Ups and Mates Go FREE 2018 on Kellogg's, Crunchy Nut... / Personal_Finance / Theme Parks
By: Anika_Walayat
We still have another week to go for the easter school holidays 2018 and with the summer holidays just around the corner parents are seeking ways to keep their kids entertained during holiday season that will likely include several trips to the major UK theme parks. We'll here is some great news for you all as many breakfast serial and chocolate snack bar producers such as Kellogg's are running promotions that allow entry into the UK's top theme parks for ther whole of 2018 for FREE! So plenty of time to use the vouchers to gain entry into 14 UK theme parks that include Alton Towers, Legoland, Chessington, the Dungeon, Sea Life, Shreks Adventure and Madame Tussaud's etc...
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