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You may have seen the glossy TV advertisements offering a chance to win a ‘fully furnished dream home’ in a prize draw. And, no doubt, you would have been pleased to hear there’s ‘no mortgage, no stamp duty and no conveyancing to pay’. Also thrown in alongside the £2.5 million five-bedroom ‘Georgian-style’ house in ‘the … Read more
Ex-Goldman analyst and his solicitor brother face charges over insider trades By Mark Shapland For The Daily Mail Published: 22:07 GMT, 16 February 2021 | Updated: 22:07 GMT, 16 February 2021 Brothers who worked for two of the biggest names in the City have appeared in court charged with insider trading. Acting together Mohammed Zina, … Read more
Bereaved families trying to tie up their loved ones finances hit by banking delays and blunders in pandemic By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 16 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 16 February 2021 Bereaved families are facing long delays and costly administration errors when wrapping up their loved ones’ finances … Read more
You may have seen the glossy TV advertisements offering a chance to win a ‘fully furnished dream home’ in a prize draw. And, no doubt, you would have been pleased to hear there’s ‘no mortgage, no stamp duty and no conveyancing to pay’. Also thrown in alongside the £2.5 million five-bedroom ‘Georgian-style’ house in ‘the … Read more
Fears over tax grabs on income and savings are mounting as the Chancellor faces pressure to start balancing the books after the pandemic. Two-thirds of us are worried about tax hikes and almost one in five are concerned their savings will be in the firing line, according to research for Money Mail. And as the … Read more
There used to a tradition that when you hit retirement age, you’d get a gold watch from the company and head off to relax full-time. However, money advisers now say more and more pensioners are happy to keep on working – especially as they can do so from home. Experts say the virus crisis means … Read more
British businesses are facing thousands of pounds in extra costs and consumers the prospect of higher prices as a global shortage of containers continues to cause chaos. The average cost of shipping a 40-foot container from Asia to Northern Europe, including the UK, has skyrocketed from $1,752 last February to more than $8,000 at the … Read more
Spending hours crafting your CV to what you think is perfection could soon be a redundant exercise. That’s because a growing number of companies are disregarding the curriculum vitae during the hiring process – either in part or entirely. CV based recruitment is being increasingly phased out for a number of reasons – including awareness … Read more
The price of a detached house shot up three times faster than that of a flat in 2020, as lockdown drove buyers to seek out bigger homes with gardens. Detached homes saw their value increase by 10 per cent or £43,364 last year, with the average cost reaching £486,595 by December. This was according to … Read more
More than three fifths of ‘sandwich generation’ feel better equipped to deal with impact of Covid due to lessons learnt during the 2008 financial crisis By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 13 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 13 February 2021 More than three fifths of the ‘sandwich generation’ feel better … Read more