The OFT said it has uncovered widespread irresponsible lending and failure to comply with standards in the payday loans sector. Why can they continue to use celebrity endorsements to promote their products?
What can us advisers, and our clients, learn from Aynuk and Ayli?
Hello There’s a lot of truth in the statement that ‘you can never really understand another’s view of life unless you’ve actually walked in their shoes’… You see, unless you go though a tough situation yourself, unless you feel the feelings they feel, you are given the options they have, it’s very easy to make
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Bankers' liquidity ratios and the two most dangerous words in the world!
There’s something going badly wrong in this country… Why is it that we can churn out world beating athletes if we put our mind (and money) to it, but we’re carrying a level of personal debt that many will never ever be able to repay and we have one million NEETs – let’s be blunt,
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This month we have a guest blog by Ian Brodie
Businesses are avoiding taking action to protect themselves against the Eurozone crisis, perhaps it's not surprising!
Things are developing into a good old fashioned fist fight! But it’s not in Portugal, Ireland, Greece, or Spain! … No, it’s actually over here!… Click on this link to go to an article that’s just appeared, today, on Bloomberg – in broad terms it says QE3 is needed to avoid conditions in the economy
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Do you remember I discussed the boom bust cycle before, in my newsletter of November 2011? Such a long time ago, so much has happened… yet no finalisation. In case you missed that newsletter, here’s a link. 6 months’ on, it’s probably time to revisit the cycle, because although many people are doing very, very
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Are you worried? About a major client’s current financial position? About their future prospects? About your own business? About our children’s future? There’s a lot we could worry about right at this moment. UK national debt is now £1,000,000,000,000 (excluding the odd trillion £ we’ve pumped into the banks); by now UK personal debt has
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