There are few things better than a discount or a special offer, but while you look out for vouchers and deals, you may have a number of valuable perks available that you are unaware of or not using to your full advantage. Here we uncover five of the best benefits, and explain how you can…
A third of borrowers who have seen their income fall as a result of the pandemic fear they may not be able to remortgage, research has found – but brokers say they shouldn’t just assume they have to move onto their lender’s costly standard variable rate (SVR). It has been estimated that 700,000 short-term fixed-rate…
James Anderson, the star stock-picker of the FTSE-100-listed Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, is to step down as manager of the Baillie Gifford fund after more than two decades in which the fund has delivered investors 1,700% in returns. Anderson, who has made huge returns for investors by staking early bets on emerging technology companies such…
Polly Toynbee’s excellent article (The Brexit deal was astonishingly bad, and every day the evidence piles up, 16 March) has prompted me to write. I am a 62-year old British woman living in Germany because of my husband’s job. So far we have lost rights and exchanged our driving licences for German ones. I no…
The competition watchdog has ordered the housebuilders Taylor Wimpey and Countryside Properties to remove terms in contracts that have made it impossible for some homeowners to get a mortgage or sell their properties. The Competition and Markets Authority has told the two firms to remove certain contract terms that mean leaseholders have to pay ground…
BT has committed to investing £12bn in getting faster broadband connections to 20m UK homes, including in remote rural areas, after the telecoms regulator Ofcom unveiled a host of financial incentives to help achieve the government’s goal of creating “gigabit” Britain. However, some rival operators warned that Ofcom’s broadband plan could mean price rises for…
