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New Year, New Start?

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020 Fergus Muirhead

Now that Christmas is over for another twelve months we all have a chance to reflect on our finances for the coming year. We all make New Year resolutions and one of the most important for many this year will be to promise to make better use of our money in the year ahead. As well as promising not to…

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Can’t get a mortgage? It pays to talk

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 Fergus Muirhead

Here’s a little taster of a new series coming very soon on Moneysucks. Julie McKinnon has just bought her first house and now that she has, she wishes that she did it in a completely different way. So we introduced her to Glasgow mortgage broker Meryn Stewart, from Tru Wealth, and they had a long chat about the best way…

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Christmas is coming

October 23, 2019October 23, 2019 Fergus Muirhead

I know the schools don’t seem to be long back after the October break but I have already noticed that a few of our larger retailers have now set aside some of their floor space for Christmas decorations, cards, and wrapping paper. A quick check on my calendar tells me that by the time you are reading this there will…

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Who is getting your CD collection when you die?

October 16, 2019 Fergus Muirhead

Most of us have family that we would like to leave money to when we die. Many of us own property either to live in or that we rent out at a profit and a lot of us are in business, either on our own or with other people. And we all have CDs or old toys or golf clubs…

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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.

Any Questions

If you have any money or consumer questions for Fergus please feel free to drop him a line at info@moneysucks.net.

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