12th October 08
The Finance Ministers of the G7 (United Kingdom, United States of America, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy) have had a meeting in Washington over the weekend. The International Monetary Fun...
Read More8th October 08
In light of yesterday’s chaotic events in Iceland, I didn’t bat an eyelid. I have savings with them, but only just over the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority’s (IFSA) maximum level of compens...
Read More5th October 08
What is this ‘Open Market Option’? Abbreviated to OMO, it is the ability to take your accumulated Pension fund to the whole marketplace of annuity (retirement income) providers and buy the best and m...
Read More30th September 08
I started writing this yesterday… “A few Blogs back, I wrote about the lack of pain and accountability the Credit Crunch Bankers had felt to that point. I questioned whether sanctions would be b...
Read More25th September 08
In life, I quite believe in the difference between those whose glass is ‘half-empty’ and those for whom it is ‘half-full’. More and more as time passes, I wear my ‘half-full’ badge with increasing pr...
Read More20th September 08
I drove to Cornwall on Monday for a 4-day break, having to then endure the 10 o’clock news for the next few evenings, viewed through my hand clasped over my face…somewhat like when those of a nervous ...
Read More12th September 08
Wow! I am amazed by the response to my last-but-one Blog. Thank you. If you haven’t already, please read it. You will see five comments posted at the bottom, mostly grateful for the near-misses ...
Read More9th September 08
The Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) has launched a campaign to promote financial planning, terming it as ‘Financial Planning Week’ and building a specific website to provide information about it...
Read More7th September 08
This is a Personal Finance Blog and, to that end, topics will inevitably include saving money and sensible generic financial actions that can be taken – or, in some cases, financial actions to be avoi...
Read More4th September 08
I wanted to let you know about improvements we have made to lse.co.uk...and a few that we hope to have in place before Christmas. Today Left-hand navigation menu: Re-designed to be bolder, large...
Read More1st September 08
I try to write in a fair fashion and, having castigated our beloved Chancellor of the Exchequer a few blogs back, will now redress the balance ever-so-slightly. Alistair Darling is still deathly si...
Read More27th August 08
Probably not a great surprise, but I enjoy watching financial programmes such as BBC’s The Money Programme or the Channel 4 Dispatches special that was televised on Monday evening past. It was entitl...
Read More24th August 08
The Government is finally considering placing some form of regulation on the Debt Advisory/Management sector. As debt is a financial concern – and most other finance sectors are regulated – this acti...
Read More17th August 08
TLA’s…don’t you just love them?! If you don’t know what a TLA is, I am referring to the infamous ‘three-letter abbreviation’. Please keep a look out for these in everyday living - we had JFK and the...
Read More11th August 08
Why oh why, when you are in the second most contentious and critiqued role in this (failing) Labour Government, would you go and throw out a life-line to house-buyers and then refuse to elucidate furt...
Read More7th August 08
Carrying on with the theme of my last 2 blogs – asset allocation and free financial guides via lse.co.uk – I noticed that 11 visitors to the site requested a free guide about Wine investing in July. ...
Read More4th August 08
You may have noticed that you can obtain free guides on a number of financial topics and products via lse.co.uk. The guides offered tend to be intuitive, based on the page you are looking at i.e. Sha...
Read More29th July 08
Not a good start…a title that is heading for article territory. Oh well, it is hard to avoid it sometimes, being a relatively newbie blogger and all. Asset allocation in personal finance terms is ho...
Read More22nd July 08
lse.co.uk’s resident blogger, i.e. me, has been swanning around in Italy and Switzerland for the past week, hence the dearth of rich, thought-provoking, well-written new content! I was at Gatwick, ...
Read More8th July 08
I went to see the British Grand Prix at Silverstone over the weekend. I had a great time, but am not made of money so could not help but analyse the cost in deciding if I attend next year’s race. I ...
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