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Graeme Knights - ArticlesThe dangers of travelling lightIf the rumours are to be believed, then global warming means the chances of enjoying a traditional white Christmas are receding further with each passing year. Savings rates provide food for thoughtWhat are you doing with your spare cash at the moment?
Perhaps you’re still spending, doing your bit to get the economy going again. Or has the downturn seen you take a more circumspect view of your finances, either through necessity or choice, and perhaps to think about putting some money away for the future. Wise up this ChristmasWith November just around the corner and the daylight hours dwindling, the Christmas season is drawing closer and closer. The event evokes images of families swapping presents and pleasantries, great turkey dinners and crowding round the television to watch the Queen’s speech.
However, the months and weeks before the 25 December represent a worrisome and torrid time for many parents, as they struggle to cope with the demands and costs that Christmas has come to represent. Fix it for best bondsWith interest rates so low, finding the best rate fixed rate bond could be a profitable action. A stirring mortgage marketIt is a subject which splits opinion on a daily, weekly and monthly basis – the housing market. The sector is pored over in minute detail, with many lenders, bodies and other organisations publishing figures at the end of each month, detailing average house prices, annual changes, monthly changes, regional breakdowns, discrepancies between asking and selling prices, and so on. Back to banking basics?Much of the analysis during the fallout of the financial crisis has focused on how the events since the autumn of 2007 have affected multi-national organisations and governments around the world. However, normal families have also been hurt by the downturn, with many hard working individuals finding themselves unemployed for the first time often through no fault of their own. The ISA world is your oysterAs those over 50 try to work out how best to make use of the extra ISA allowance that has now come their way, those of us with a bit more youth on our side still have to wait until next April for the new limits to come into play. Using your child trust fund: easy as learning your ABCLike the kids who’ll be the first to benefit from them, the Child Trust Fund has done a lot of growing up in the four and a half years since it was launched. The choice is yoursPersonal finance has become part of the national psyche since the beginning of the economic downturn, with consumers up and down the land pondering the best home for their money. A heady fixTo fix or not to fix? It is a question that many potential homeowners have no doubt pondered recently.
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