DIRECTOR DEALS: Topps Tiles boss Robert Parker handed shares worth £46

DIRECTOR DEALS: Topps Tiles boss Robert Parker awarded shares worth £461,000 By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 3 January 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 3 January 2020 The new chief executive of Topps Tiles has been awarded shares worth around £461,000 at today’s prices. Robert Parker, 47, took the top job … Read more

I moved my army pension worth £75k into a Sipp and it’s losing money

I served just under 15 years in the British Army. I left the military at the end of 2005 and moved in to private security working in Afghanistan, Somalia and now South Sudan. Having served over 12 years I am entitled to a half military pension once I reach retirement age. While working in Afghanistan … Read more

The student debt dilemma: Is it worth paying off your child’s loan if you can?

Graduates are now leaving university with debts so high they are unlikely to ever pay them off — perhaps even if they go straight into a job paying £48,000. The cost of getting a degree now lumbers students with a colossal average debt of £50,000, and high interest rates mean most won’t pay it back … Read more

What is critical illness and income protection and it is it worth having?

Ten years ago, while the world was in the grips of a financial crisis, I was going through a financial crisis of my own. In 2008, at the age of 26, I suffered a life-changing back injury. In the short-term I couldn’t work for almost a year, and in the long-term I have been left … Read more

Going gets heavy for the big bookmakers: Saddled with tough new rules, are they worth a flutter? 

With Tiger Roll set to go off as the shortest-priced favourite in the Grand National since Red Rum in 1975, bookmakers will take a bashing if the popular Irish horse scoots home for a second straight year. But they face an even bigger challenge away from the track as legislation comes into force. The maximum … Read more

Tourists reveal the attractions they claim are not worth the hype

Some tourists pay thousands to fly half way around the world to visit Hollywood Boulevard. But they’re wasting their time according to one internet user – because it ‘smells like straight-up s***’. This outpouring was just one of many that appeared on a forum dedicated to the revealing of ‘overhyped’ tourist attractions. Pictured is Romeo … Read more