This is the first in a series of interviews with BBC Scotland’s Theresa Talbot. In this chat she tells us why it’s important for her to be more organised in the way that she deals with her money. We’ll go on soon to talk about how Theresa can go about that, and we’ll monitor her progress in a series of…
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Our apathy encourages the banks. .
So some more research just out tells us that we’re losing billions of pounds each and every year because we keep money in low interest accounts. That’s not news. It has been like this for years. Even when interest rates are high we still don’t move our money around the way we should to take advantage of the best rates…
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All lenders use credit checks these days to help them decide whether you should be accepted for a loan so it is important to understand in detail how credit reports work, what your credit file will look like, and what you can do to make sure you have as high a score as possible. In this article we will look…
Read MoreSmall print. Who reads it?
Do you read all of the Terms and Conditions of every insurance policy that you buy? Should you have to? The answer to both questions, given that I’m told the average policy document comes with something like 25,000 words, should be no. And for the vast majority of us it is actually no, certainly as far as the first question…
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