Interest Rates; Are they too high, too low or about right?
For more than 35 years, the impending arrival of a new football season has resulted in around 25 of us, all long-standing friends, submitting a variety of well-considered predictions to the group’s statistician-in-chief, a retired accountant, who gathers and sorts the data for the ultimate football sweepstake.
A Flexible Option to Complete Your Retirement Bucket List
The prospect of visiting Australia always held enormous appeal. Perhaps because it’s so far away, or maybe because the weather always looks so fabulously good,...
Fact or Fiction: Revealing the Truth Behind Equity Release
Spend time in almost any company, large or small, and it soon becomes apparent that perhaps the greatest threat feared by the organisation’s owners and manageme...
Nationwide House Price Index: Let’s Put This Into Perspective
A recent television programme, The Blackouts of ’74: When Britain Went Dark, examined why the lights went out in 1974 and Britain was reduced to a 3-day working...
A few years ago, the National Lottery operators published results of a survey conducted among a very select group of people, major Lotto winners, after asking t...
Eurovision highlights cost of living crisis: Is equity release the answer for UK homeowners?
I’m old enough to remember artistes including Sandie Shaw, Lulu and Cliff Richard representing the UK in the annual Eurovision Song Contest, back in the days be...