Personal Finance Archive

WITH the Coalition's economic strategy under relentless scrutiny, all eyes will be on the House of Commons on Wednesday when Chancellor George Osborne unveils the Budget for 2013-14.

THE stock market has been hitting five-year highs, reaching levels last seen in early 2008 before the financial crisis, but Scots remain wary of stocks and shares Isas.

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Children will be showing how much they value their mothers this weekend with cards and flowers.

Len R, a former offshore electronics engineer (who prefers to withhold his surname) and action group member from Aberdeen, had two pension funds when he had to stop work in 2005 after a series of cardiac operations.

Need short-term cash but the salary is running out?

The global equity income sector is among the youngest in the industry, and it is also one of the fastest-growing.

Wow – what a week that was.

THE Government should loosen rules for the National Employment Savings Trust that forms the centrepiece (Nest) of its plans for pension auto-enrolment, according to the work and pensions committee chaired by Aberdeen South MP Dame Anne Begg.

A £30 payment towards winter fuel bills is the latest incentive being used to persuade older people to take out over-50s life cover.

Daytime TV viewers will be familiar with Sir Michael Parkinson offering a "free pen just for inquiring" about the over-50s plan of market leader Sun Life, part of Axa Wealth.

With inflation running at 2.7% a year and salaries rising at just 1.7%, there is no end in sight to the financial misery – and that means it is more important than ever to make your savings work as hard as possible.

Many drivers will be counting the cost of the recent snow and ice when their motor insurance comes up for renewal.

Consumers can earn up to £125 in cash simply by changing their current account as the big banks and building societies offer incentives to new customers in a bid for business.