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Month: June 2015

Is your PIN security sharp enough?

June 24, 2015June 24, 2015 Fergus Muirhead

Most of us have a selection of pin numbers and passwords that we use to keep an ever-increasing number of phones and computers, bank accounts and credit cards safe from unauthorised access. Strange then that according to research from Churchill Home insurance, many of us keep copies of the actual passwords and pin codes in the most unsafe locations. The…

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What should your bank be doing for you?

June 24, 2015 Fergus Muirhead

A recent survey showed that there is more chance of most of us changing our partner than our Bank Account and I still regularly talk to people who use the same branch of the same bank where they opened their first student account decades ago!   If you are happy with the service you have been receiving from your bank…

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Cheap or value for money? There is a big difference

June 24, 2015 Fergus Muirhead

Every penny that we spend on a daily, weekly and monthly basis needs to be accounted for these days. Making sure that we get value for money is not the same as buying the cheapest you can find, and we need to be careful that in the hunt for good value we don’t actually end up getting poor value because…

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Should you buy or lease your new car? Part 1

June 16, 2015June 17, 2015 Fergus Muirhead

Apart from our homes, cars are the most expensive purchases that most of us will make. Yet we waste thousands of pounds buying cars that we don’t need. And we do it in an unresearched and pretty haphazard way without investigating the value we are getting for the money we spend. The options to use when paying for a car…

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Interest rates are now up over 5%.  But have the recent rises really helped to deal with inflation? Take a look at Fergus’s recent post to see what that might mean for you.

Moneysucks for musicians

Have a look at the first part of our series on how musicians can best maximise and protect their income from their own words and music.
We'll be adding to this in the coming months to provide much more useful information for musicians.

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