Corporate contagion takes hold
Corporate contagion is spreading fast. As banks and energy companies lined up yesterday to confess their varying exposure to the Enron debacle, the main interest lay with...
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Personal debt at record high
British consumers and home buyers took advantage of cheap credit to stack up record new borrowing last month, as confidence bounced back from post-September 11 lows.
Pe...
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Critical illness insurance
Critical illness insurance pays out a lump sum if you are diagnosed with any of a range of serious conditions, which include cancer, heart disease, strokes and multiple s...
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Buildings insurance
If you have a mortgage, you will have no choice but to have buildings insurance. And your lender will probably be only too keen to provide it - at a cost.
It is usually...
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Plan a smoother retirement
Life doesn't get any easier for pension investors. Annuity rates, which rise and fall in line with gilt yields, are currently at depths not plumbed since the 1960s, and c...
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Six who fell foul of Elizabeth Filkin
Keith Vaz
Went to unprecedented lengths to hinder Filkin. She said he failed to provide "full and accurate" answers and she was unable to resolve eight claims that he ...
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Is now the time to buy-to-let?
There are now 130,000 buy-to-let mortgages, worth about ?10bn, outstanding in Britain today.
Buying-to-let has never been easier: more than 50 lenders now offer this t...
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Haunted by a mortgage scandal
Affecting up to 11 million homebuyers, the endowment mortgage disaster ranks as one of the biggest financial scandals of all tim...
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Cards that swipe back
The Christmas spending binge is well under way and much of it will be paid for on credit cards.
UK card holders spent a staggering £8.4 billion on their credit car...
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Legal eagle spots buying opportunity
Lindsay Wilson
Age: 23
Lives: in London
Occupation: Trainee solicitor
Earns: ?28,500
Mortgage: None
Debts: ?5,250 student loan, ?1,000 credit card
Investme...
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