- Warning. Beware of financial advisers promising unusually high investment returns.
- In Money Marketing this week the Financial Services Authority is warning advisers about the dangers of selling dodgy non regulated investment products. What about warning the public?
- Wed 28th Jul 2010
- Have you been miss-sold your mortgage and are now stuck in mortgage hell.
- I have been speaking to a number of mortgage gurus over the last few days and the prickly topic that keeps cropping up is mortgage miss-selling.
- Wed 14th Jul 2010
- Bank of England to hold interest rates until May 2011. Good news.
- The british chamber of commerce have stated that rates will be on hold for quite some time.
- Tue 6th Jul 2010
Rate hold 'not bad news for borrowers'
Fri 11 Jan 2008 4pm
The Bank of England's decision to hold interest rates at 5.5 per cent yesterday is not necessarily bad news for the nation's borrowers, it has been claimed.While mortgage holders may be disappointed by the Bank's failure to reduce the cost of borrowing for another month at least, it is not all "doom and gloom" for consumers, according to Leeds Building Society.
Public relations manager at the building society Gary Brook explained that because many UK homeowners have fixed-rate mortgage deals, a reduction would have had no impact anyway.
He added: "New borrowers and those remortgaging are already benefiting from cheaper fixed-rate mortgage products as swap rates, which are currently around 0.55 per cent lower than this time last year, have already factored in potential decreases in base rate.
According to Mr Brook, these lower swap rates should mean a minimal "payment shock" for people coming to an end of their fixed-rate deal.
Several analysts have predicted that that the Bank will opt to cut rates at next month's monetary policy committee meeting, which takes place on February 7th.
