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How are you taking cash abroad for your summer holidays?

admin — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:39:33 +0000

Travelling years ago was simple as the choice was cash and travellers cheques (for those with a distant memory exchange controls were only abolished not that long ago). Nowadays the list is longer, as on top of cash and travellers cheques, you have debit cards, credit cards and more recently pre-paid cards. So which do [...]

Sepp, do you have a lifestyle financial plan?

admin — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:21:41 +0000

Now it may have not escaped your attention that a certain Mr Sepp Blatter was reappointed to the head of FIFA with a pretty thumping majority at the recent jamboree in Zurich. In a rather naughty way we wondered if Mr Blatter had a lifestyle financial plan? With earnings of allegedly £1,000,000 a year and [...]

To all fans of Index-Linked Certificates…..

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:49:47 +0000

At last they’re back! For those of you that were trying to get their hands on National Savings Index-Linked Certificates, they’re back! The NSI have made some changes (the above inflation return is 0.5% for instance), but the inflation guarantee is linked to the Retail Price Index (RPI) not CPI. And now for the small [...]

Interest rates…up or down?

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:52:59 +0000

Here’s one to get you all going….. will interest rates go up very soon, stay level (or will they go down)? Pretty tough one and easy to offend someone out there. Well the savers of the UK are hurting, especially those reliant on their savings to fund their retirement years. On the other side the [...]

Paying the children’s University Fees….

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:15:27 +0000

Paying the children’s University Fees…. Now the majority of UK Universities are lining up to charge the maximum £9,000 tuition fees, what is a hard-pressed parent going to do? Not only will a student leave college with a whopping great debt burden but will join the workforce (hopefully?!) to spend the next thirty -odd years [...]

Welcome to the new Accalon Associates website!

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:25:10 +0000

Welcome to our brand NEW WordPress Blog & Website from Accalon Associates. This is our first blog post and the beginning of our entry into the world of Social Media. We want to help as many people as possible develop a lifestyle financial plan to achieve their goals. Our new website has been designed to [...]