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Cash boost for Equitable Lif...
Insurance company Equitable Life is set to add 12.5% to the value of policies held by 400,000 customers. The firm, which came close to collapse in 2000, said it was able to do so by adjusting its risk...
New scheme aims to help firs...
An innovative scheme to help first time buyers onto the property ladder has been launched by Lloyds TSB and fifteen local councils. Authorities including Warrington, East Lothian and Blackpoolhave agr...
Budget has left us worse off...
Chancellor George Osborne’ s Budget has done little to bolster any financial feel-good factor as the UK noses out of the downturn. Many feel the damage to personal finances was already in the pi...
Royal Mint delay will cost m...
The Treasury has announced that a delay in changes to the metal composition of 5p and 10p coins has cost taxpayers £10 million. The Royal Mint had planned to issue new coins made from cheaper ni...