Financial service regulators are becoming concerned about the risks consumers are taking with their pensions. Pension freedoms that were introduced a few years ago have led to a huge increase in the number of people transferring out of guaranteed pensions into riskier personal pensions. The regulator has again expressed renewed concern about these transfers. They are worried that members of…
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It’s only an advert but…
There are some really dubious adverts on TV in the afternoons, and after a while they all kind of merge into one big long turgid televisual treat about how you can sue someone who made you break your leg as you fell out of your car at 100 miles an hour while you were filling in an application for life…
Read MoreWhy you should keep your receipts.
Q. I tried to return a handbag to Jenners in Edinburgh where I purchased it only 6 weeks ago since the stitching came away in 2 separate places. I did not have my receipt as it was bought by card and the receipt disposed of after checking off bank statement. Not only did the rather surly supervisor refuse to change…
Read MoreMake money as you make music
Recently we featured a series of articles written by Performing Rights Society head in Scotland Duncan McCrone as he explained the importance to musicians of understanding how they can generate a regular income stream from the music they write. Now you can listen to Finlay MacDonald, Director of Piping Studies at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, as he explains…
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