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Family Springboard Mortgage – what’s the deal?
Friday, January 18th, 2013
We were interested in the release of a new mortgage that the Woolwich (Barclays Bank’s mortgage provider) have just launched. It’s called the Family Springboard Mortgage and as the blurb about the product states, it aims to ‘help the home buyer get on or move up the property ladder by allowing parents or other family [...]
Tags: first time buyer, first time buyers, mortgage, mortgages
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 18th January 2013
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Welcome to another week’s financial news round up. And sadly, it’s another week, another UK High Street retailer in difficulties. This time it’s HMV and Blockbuster in trouble. We’ve more about that story below along with some major pension news. As always, if you have any queries, call us free on 0800 0112825 or email us info@wwfp.net and we’ll [...]
Tags: Bank of England, banks, Barclays, pensions, retirement
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 11th January 2013
Friday, January 11th, 2013
Welcome to the very first financial news round up of 2013! And a very Happy New Year to you. It may only be the start of January but nonetheless, the financial world never rests and there are plenty of stories out there. We’ve rounded them up, selected the most important and those that are likely [...]
Tags: annuity rates, Bank of England, interest rates, long term care, long term care costs, RPI
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 14th December 2012
Monday, December 17th, 2012
It’s a week closer to Christmas and the temperatures are plummeting across the UK, coupled with more stormy weather. And to accompany the weather, there have also been a few storms of a financial nature blowing across the UK and Europe. Read below to find out more! As always, if you have any queries, call [...]
Tags: Barclays, mortgages, Northern Rock
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Autumn Statement 2012
Monday, December 10th, 2012
The 2012 Autumn Statement – Good News or Bad? In short, for most of us, it held a mixture of good and bad news. There were announcements that will affect individuals and also companies, with money being taken in some places, given back in others. There was a fairly mixed bag of announcements in the [...]
Tags: Inheritance tax, ISAs, nil rate band, pensions
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 7th December 2012
Friday, December 7th, 2012
Snow is in the air! Welcome to the first financial news round up for December 2012, with reports of flurries of snow around the country. Be careful out there and keep warm! It’s been another busy financial week with Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn statement on the 5th. We’ve got all the key points from that [...]
Tags: banks, business finance, Inheritance tax, ISAs, tax, tax relief
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 30th November 2012
Friday, November 30th, 2012
Welcome to another of your regular financial news round ups, still taking shelter from the wind and rain. We hope you’ve stayed safe among the storms battering the UK at present. There have also been storms of a metaphorical kind in the financial world, with change at the top of Bank of England and warnings [...]
Tags: banks, mortgages, Nationwide, Royal bank of Scotland, VAT
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 23rd November 2012
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
Welcome to Worldwide’s regular financial news round up, slightly damp and clad in wellington boots after the torrential rain the UK has been receiving. But on the plus side, the weather is likely to have given umbrella manufacturers a boost. Every cloud has a silver lining… As always, if you have any queries, call us [...]
Tags: banks, investing, mortgages, tax, tax relief
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 16th November 2012
Monday, November 19th, 2012
Welcome to another round up of all the week’s biggest stories from the financial world. With President Obama settling back into the White House, focus has turned again to Europe and to our own shores. As always, if you have any queries, call us free on 0800 0112825 or email us info@wwfp.net and we’ll be happy to help. You [...]
Tags: banks, Lloyds, Royal bank of Scotland
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 9th November 2012
Friday, November 9th, 2012
Welcome to your regular financial news round up, at the end of a tense and busy week in American politics. Finally, after what seems like months and months of campaigning, the US elections have taken place. And despite Republican candidate Mitt Romney spending more than 500 days on the campaign trail, incumbent president Barack Obama [...]
Tags: banks, Barclays, interest rates, investment, ISAs, pensions, retirement
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