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The general public are still largely unaware of the UK savings safety net, despite some £4 million being spent on a television advertisement campaign. The Chief Executive of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), Mark Neale, spoke with the BBC and said that the process of explaining saver protection to people needed to be rethought. [...]
Plenty of retirement savers moan about the cost of living and their pensions, but few are doing much to help improve their finances. Instead of looking at ways to maximise their pension incomes, most over 55s are blindly taking rubbish investment advice from their banks or pension providers and fail to shop around for the [...]
A giant pig will be executed today outside the Bank of England headquarters to demonstrate how angry savers are at the effects that record low interest rates are having on their savings. The giant pig named ‘Bertie’ is made of paper mache and will be symbolically hammered to pieces at the same time that the [...]
Prime Minister, David Cameron is urging households to pay off their credit cards and other debts to help in Britain’s financial recovery. He will ask the public as well as the banks and government to take responsibility for overcoming the recession, urging people to pay off credit and store cards and “deal with your debts”. [...]
The Bank of England is set to scupper the hopes of retirement savers by cutting interest rates and printing more money to inject in to the stuttering economy. Commentators and City analysts are bracing themselves for an interest rate cut to 0.25 per cent – which would be the lowest official interest rate ever. At [...]
The last six months have seen people who have a defined contribution scheme suffer an average loss of £1,300 from their potential annual retirement income. In the six months from the start of March 2011 to the end of August 2011, the FTSE 100 share index has fallen by 9%. It has also already fallen [...]
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is receiving thousands of complaints about door to door traders offering stair lifts and other mobility aids for the elderly and disabled. The watchdog has warned that traders are often charging up to 50% more for the items of equipment than they cost on the high street, with some [...]
Those with defined contribution pension schemes will have lost an average of £1,300 from their pension funds in the past six months. Actuaries, Alexander Forbes, have said that the loss was due to plummeting share prices and lower annuity rates. The FTSE 100 share index had fallen by 9% since the beginning of March to [...]
Stock market falls have bought about a 14% decline in pension savings since the start of the year. The financial services company Hargreaves Lansdown, have released their figures showing the effect of the recent stock market losses are having on pension incomes in the UK. At the same time ISAs have also been hit by [...]
Retirement savers are not confident that their pensions will deliver, according to a survey by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF). The consumer champion’s annual review of Britain’s pensions reveals the country’s economic woes and recent pension reforms have left almost half of savers (48 per cent) worried that their investments will not pay [...]
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