It was a last minute break we kind of sprung on a friend out of nowhere. Last month several of us smooched off to Portugal for a weekend of surfing and eating. The surfing came first of course, but it was always followed by enough food and wine to make sl...

Cashing in your pension may sound like rather a hasty and misguided decision. Indeed the FSA ( Financial Services Authority ) makes it very clear that in most cases you will receive markedly less should you cash in your pension chips early rather than ...

Contributing to a pension is the sensible way to proceed whilst you are earning money. Although our consumerist society urges spending and borrowing in order to keep up with the latest and greatest products and services we also need to think about tomo...

Investment in Off Plan properties is increasingly being seen as a way to reap very favourable returns in a fluctuating market. Off Plan is the term used to refer to buying into a property during the state of pre-construction. The process benefi...

Now I have been in the market for a mortgage for a few years now. I have been working hard to get my foot upon that elusive first rung of the housing ladder. My income has increased greater than the rate of inflation, which should be a good thing, but ...

With breaking news across the wires is that following the US Federal Reserve's announcement that has slashed the base interest rate to 4.75% ( a drop of half a point ), the FTSE gained a 2% rise. The knock on affect of this bold move by the US Reserve ...

Hitting ctrl+P or however you decide to output your screen's contents onto paper can be such an easy thing to do. With powerful and swift network printing it can be accomplished without much thought; but printing, even with the most ecofriendly printer...

The situation in America may or may not be helping it is nigh on impossible to accurately predict the how the fluctuations of one market economy will affect another. However, just as the effect of a butterfly in one country is said to have some affect on ...

The way in which we clothe and arm ourselves for our daily routines takes on many guises. From an early age we are dressed up in various school uniforms and team strips. We learn that clothing becomes, rather than a personal expression of individuality...

An impeccable credit record these days is your passport to consumer heaven. All that you see can be yours, the brand new car on zero percent finance, the leather suite with nothing to pay for two years, the laptop on HP with monthly repayments o...

Personal Protection is, unfortunately, one of those things that you have to consider these days. Whatever statistics the government manage to bring up, supporting their claims that the battle against crime is being won, it is evident to the per...

Pension Release is a process available in the UK to those over the age of 50 who have funds locked up in pension schemes which would not normally be available to them until retirement/ maturation of the policy. Grove FP are an independent finan...

Personal Pension Release is the term given to the process of unlocking or withdrawing funds perviously locked in a Personal Pension Scheme. The process is open to those over the age of 5...

Bad credit mortgages are now a boom business in the UK, they have become a necessity in a financial environment where more and more people are finding that life is hard. The financial situation i...