General Comment

• Extraordinary popular delusions
  
  26 Aug, 2008
  By Tom McPhail

  "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one!" Charles MacKay. For...

• Beware bogus emails
  
  24 Jun, 2008
  By Stephen Lansdown

  My wife received an email the other day from her bank asking for certain information.  Everything looked right; the logo, the address, the official layout of the email which was...

• Offline to Online
  
  26 May, 2008
  By Stephen Lansdown

  The Royal Mail recently announced increased losses and highlighted the slump in the number of stamped letters being sent in the UK. Evidently it is now handling three million fewer...

• Warning - Boiler Room Scams
  
  01 May, 2008
  By Richard Hunter

  When things are just too good to be true – they probably are! I believe the recent £34M share selling scam masterminded in the US and the more recent expose on...

• Digging At Oil
  
  01 May, 2008
  By Richard Hunter

  Accompanying the quarterly results from oil companies recently, comes the inevitable outbursts in the press. “Prices at the pump are an outrage”, “Surely given...

• Budget Day - a special report
  
  12 Mar, 2008
  By Danny Cox

  Chancellor Alistair Darling said the core values of his Budget were fairness and opportunity. He added that the Government would do everything in its power to maintain stability,...

• FSA plans to help home owners
  
  05 Mar, 2008
  By Meera Patel

  A Financial Services Authority (FSA) survey has revealed that one in five mortgage borrowers are expected to be in arrears in the next 12 months. A quarter of these borrowers have...

• Regular Savings - Making you save
  
  04 Mar, 2008
  By Stephen Lansdown

  There have been many articles written on the merits of regular savings particularly highlighting the benefit of pound cost averaging. In other words because you are saving every...