The best paying accounts The financial year began on 6 April, and now there’s a whole new £20,000 ISA allowance available for savers and investors. Here’s our pick of where to put your cash. New rules reminder A quick recap on the new rules…
Read MoreIt’s a surprise rate increase for customers with smaller savings pots. From today, digital bank Chase is offering eligible customers 5.1% on their savings. Here’s everything you need to know. Who gets the new rate? Chase says it’s trying to help custo…
Read MoreWhen these tax-free accounts might be useful. Just because you can use an ISA for savings and investments, it doesn’t mean you should. Find out how to make that call. What’s the point of an ISA? The whole point of an ISA (or Individual Savi…
Read MoreThe latest news to help you get the most from your savings account. Here’s my monthly update sharing changes at leading UK savings accounts, as well as some of the articles you might have missed on the blog. April’s savings update video Apr…
Read MoreThe new 3-year bond from NS&I is out Announced at the Budget in March 2024, this new government backed savings account will lock your money away for three years. Here’s how it works and how it compares to other savings accounts. What is a Bri…
Read MoreNew rules mean it’s easier to have more than one It’s about to get much simpler to use an ISA as restrictions on how many ISAs you can pay into in a year are to be replaced. Here’s what you need to know. How many new ISAs can I pay in…
Read MoreThe rules to help you move your ISAs ISAs can be a handy way to earn tax free interest or returns, but moving money for a better rate or lower fees requires a different process to money held in normal cash savings or investment accounts. Here’s w…
Read MoreThe best paying accounts The financial year ends on 5 April, so there’s only two and a weeks left to use up your ISA allowance. Here’s our pick of where to put your cash. What is the ISA deadline? Every financial year our ISA allowance for …
Read MoreHow to make the most of these saving and investment accounts. For a good number of years ISAs were the best places to put your savings. And then they weren’t! But with decent savings rates and changes to tax free allowances on investments, they&#…
Read MoreWhat you need to know about the Government’s spending and taxation plans. The likely last Budget before a general election was announced on Wednesday 7 March 2024. Expectation was Chancellor Jeremy Hunt would be doing what he could to tempt voter…
Read MoreThe latest news to help you get the most from your savings account. Here’s my monthly update sharing changes at leading UK savings accounts, as well as some of the articles you might have missed on the blog. March’s savings update video Mar…
Read MoreThe investment platform works differently to normal savings accounts. You can now earn a decent rate of interest (5.2%) on cash held in the investment app Trading 212. That’s tempting for those after the highest returns on their cash – but …
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