Inflation
QE2 – Will The Quantitative Easing Policy Sink or Float the Economy?
Friday, October 14th, 2011
QE2 – Will the second round of Quantitative Easing sink or float the economy? Not so long ago, if you mentioned QE2, most people would think of a very big ship. Not anymore. QE2 has now come to mean the second round of the Bank of England’s Quantitative Easing policy. The Bank announced last week [...]
Tags: annuity rates, Bank of England, banks, inflation, pensions, quantitative easing
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Investing For Income
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Investing for income: how to protect and increase your money With the FTSE100 seeming to be on a rollercoaster ride, you may well want to keep your money away from it. However, particularly if you are looking at investing for income, there are some interesting opportunities out there for you. We’re living in a period [...]
Tags: FTSE100, gilts, inflation, interest rates, investing, investment
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Attraction of 6.5% dividends
Friday, March 4th, 2011
The news that BP is to reinstate its dividend is a welcome one, and investors with all but zero interest rates may well be flocking back to the stock. Investors are being subjected to top end building society interest rates of around 3%, whereas inflation is currently outstripping that. It’s a very difficult position for [...]
Tags: dividends, inflation, interest rates, investments, Shares
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Fix my mortgage at 2.14% or gamble?
Friday, February 18th, 2011
Should I fix my mortgage or keep it at a standard variable rate? There are two parts to the answer. The first relates to what risk you can take with your monthly outgoings and the other to the update on whether or not inflation really exists. Speak to an independent mortgage broker for advice but [...]
Tags: inflation, interest rates, mortgage, standard variable rate
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