Articles by Graeme Knights
Ideas & Things To Do For A Weekend In The UK -
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Graeme Knights
You haven't got long, only a weekend in which to do something memorable and you're in the UK - what can you do? Of course there are thousands of things that you can do, National Parks to visit, hundreds of historical sites, places of culture...
When In Rome, Use A Foreign Usage Card -
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Graeme Knights
If the term ‘bleak mid-winter' had not already been coined then somebody, somewhere, would surely have made it up to describe the wretched season that has plagued the UK since the outset of 2010. Snow, once a novelty, is no longer welcome, at least by...
Wise up this Christmas -
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Graeme Knights
With November just around the corner and the daylight hours dwindling, the Christmas season is drawing closer and closer. The event evokes images of families swapping presents and pleasantries, great turkey dinners and crowding round the television to watch the Queen’s speech. However, the months...
Fix it for best bonds -
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Graeme Knights
The historically low base rate of interest has not been particularly kind to savers in the UK, with the measure falling from five per cent to 0.5 per cent in just 12 months. Those hoping the situation will improve are unlikely to have taken much...
A stirring mortgage market -
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Graeme Knights
It is a subject which splits opinion on a daily, weekly and monthly basis – the housing market. The sector is pored over in minute detail, with many lenders, bodies and other organisations publishing figures at the end of each month, detailing average house prices,...
The ISA world is your oyster -
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Graeme Knights
As those over 50 try to work out how best to make use of the extra ISA allowance that has now come their way, those of us with a bit more youth on our side still have to wait until next April for the new...
Using your child trust fund: easy as learning your ABC -
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Graeme Knights
Like the kids who’ll be the first to benefit from them, the Child Trust Fund has done a lot of growing up in the four and a half years since it was launched. Introduced in January 2005, the accounts are designed to ensure every...
The choice is yours -
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Graeme Knights
Personal finance has become part of the national psyche since the beginning of the economic downturn, with consumers up and down the land pondering the best home for their money. On the face of it, savers have had a torrid time of it since the...
New lease of life for ISAs -
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Graeme Knights
Having celebrated their tenth birthday in April this year, Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) are no longer the new savings kids on the block. In fact, up until this year’s Budget, many will have argued they probably weren’t ageing very well. Introduced in April 1999 as...
Fix to get top rates -
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Graeme Knights
With Bank of England Base Rate at an all time low, many savers have well founded worries about the level of returns they can expect on their hard earned savings . If this predicament rings true, fixed rate savings accounts are certainly worth thinking about,...
