Personal Finance

  • 16 June 2013

    Emma Jackson, 25, a freelance PR and journalist is one of the less-cash generation, although she still uses the folding stuff for small transactions, and when she needs to set a budget:

  • 16 June 2013

    Is cash staging a comeback?

  • 15 June 2013

    Students planning their finances for the next academic year are being urged to get their funding application to the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) this month to avoid last year's saga of late payments.

  • 15 June 2013

    People signing debt relief agreements may have to repay more to creditors, and spend less on "essentials" such as satellite TV, under reforms intended to crack down on abuse of the bankruptcy system.

  • 9 June 2013

    Homeowners are choosing to improve, not move, in the current economic climate.

  • 9 June 2013

    Glasgow Credit Union this week unveiled a "second-stepper" mortgage fixed for three years at 95% loan-to-value, with a rate of 5.25% equating to an overall cost of 5.3%.

  • 25 May 2013

    Stock markets have been soaring, and even after two days in reverse the FTSE-100 is still up by one-third over 12 months, and close to its highs of late 1999.

  • 25 May 2013

    Douglas and Janet Beard, from Cambuslang near Glasgow hope the performance of the stock market will benefit their stocks and shares Isa with Skipton Financial Services, part of the building society.

  • 18 May 2013

    Recently reviewing our UK Equity fund we realised that in the past decade all but two of the companies within it had faced either a major challenge to their business or issued a profit warning leading to a significant decline in the share price.