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Intergenerational wealth transfer research report
Feb 3, 2022, 12:48 PM -
The Savings Habit
Jul 8, 2021, 16:58 PM -
Your quarterly Market Tracker account rate review - interest rate reductions
Mar 12, 2021, 12:37 PM -
Time to watch out for a friend in need
Oct 8, 2020, 17:35 PM -
Learn, repeat and master
Sep 24, 2020, 14:13 PM -
We’re all going on a Sunak holiday
Jul 21, 2020, 14:19 PM -
What our CEO Mark Bogard believes the Chancellor should have talked about
Jul 8, 2020, 14:22 PM -
Young people must come first
Jun 11, 2020, 14:52 PM -
Is this the 'end of the beginning'? Part 2
Jun 8, 2020, 14:53 PM -
Is this the 'end of the beginning'? Part 1
Jun 2, 2020, 14:53 PM -
Reasons to be cheerful 1, 2, 3…
Apr 23, 2020, 14:55 PM -
Degrees of difficulty – so think before you leap
Nov 26, 2019, 15:06 PM -
The big householder question answered
Nov 21, 2019, 15:12 PM -
Choked off Stamp Duty giving government a headache
Oct 23, 2019, 18:16 PM -
Anxious empty-nesters have nothing to fear
Oct 17, 2019, 14:20 PM -
Lending to your children – how to do it right
Oct 14, 2019, 14:33 PM -
Money matters, so talk and be open about it
Oct 8, 2019, 14:45 PM -
How to avoid your BoMaD dream becoming a nightmare
Oct 2, 2019, 14:52 PM -
Time to sit for your BoMaD exams
Sep 25, 2019, 16:54 PM -
Happy birthday to us – with the emphasis on happy
Aug 16, 2019, 16:43 PM
Intergenerational wealth transfer - you can’t spend it twice!
- Money & Lifestyle
A report published today on intergenerational transfer of wealth, sponsored by the Family Building Society, explores the effects its having on UK families.
February 2022
The Savings Habit
- Money & Lifestyle
- Saving for the future
- Savings
Do we teach our children enough about the importance of saving rather than spending? How can we educate young people so they that they try and start saving as early as they can, with whatever spare cash they may have? A recent experience has taught me that youngsters have far more potential to be habitual savers than we elders might realise. There is hope for a new generation of savers yet.
June 2021
Your quarterly Market Tracker account rate review - interest rate reductions
- Savings
Time to watch out for a friend in need
- Covid-19
- Money & Lifestyle
Is now the winter of our discontent? On the face of it, there is plenty to be gloomy about. After months of lockdown and restrictions on our freedoms of movement, crushing economic consequences and health concerns for family and friends, it would be forgivable to feel down and glum.
October 2020
Learn, repeat and master
- Bank of Mum and Dad
- Family Mortgage
I am teaching my daughter to drive. Or rather, I am trying not to shout and/or burst into tears at every junction, roundabout and parking space.
September 2020
We’re all going on a Sunak holiday
- Covid-19
- Family Mortgage
- Mortgages
I was talking to a friend of mine over the weekend who gave an interesting (if unfortunate in her case) apocryphal story about the immediate affect of the Chancellor’s Stamp Duty holiday.
July 2020
What our CEO Mark Bogard believes the Chancellor should have talked about
- Covid-19
- Money & Lifestyle
- Saving for the future
The Family Building Society believes that the Covid-19 crisis allows the Treasury to develop further its leading role in radical economic policy-making.
July 2020
Young people must come first
- Covid-19
- Money & Lifestyle
Covid-19 has hit the over 65s hard. It has also cut the ground from under the feet of the under 25s in particular but also Generation Y. And we are all going to be poorer for a long time.
June 2020
Is this the 'end of the beginning'? Part 2
- Covid-19
- Money & Lifestyle
We are emerging from this global crisis, of that there is no doubt. Economies around the world are beginning to take the padlocks off and opening the doors of business again.
June 2020
Is this the 'end of the beginning'? Part 1
- Covid-19
- Money & Lifestyle
Churchills famous words resonate around us now. Our greatest leader was talking in 1942 of the hard-won victory in North Africa over massed German forces. Britain and its Commonwealth Allies had battled hard to show what Churchill argued was not the Beginning of the End of the Second World War but was the first sign that it could be won.
June 2020
Reasons to be cheerful 1, 2, 3…
- Covid-19
- Money & Lifestyle
So sang the late, great post-punk storyteller Ian Dury. He was himself a man who faced challenges. Though he never allowed his physical handicap – polio – or his cultural one, namely an inability to sing very well, to stop him from reaching pop superstardom.
April 2020
Degrees of difficulty – so think before you leap
- Fraud
- Later life planning
- Saving for the future
A startling study released last week shows those educated to degree-level are more at risk of pension fraud than those without the qualification. A survey from the Financial Conduct Authority and the Pension Regulator shows fraudsters offering ‘free pension reviews’ with unsolicited phone calls target those with larger pension pots.
November 2019
The big householder question answered
- Generational divide
It’s perhaps one of the great first-world questions of our time. Not, will I need a visa to go to France next year, nor, will my adult kids ever leave home, nor, why are avocados so expensive these days, but: How much cheaper is it to pay off a mortgage than rent for 30 years?
November 2019
Choked off Stamp Duty giving government a headache
- First time buyers
- Later life planning
It seems the UK government might have another little headache on its hands. And this is one which might benefit us all as pressure continues to build on the power-that-be to reform the moribund Stamp Duty regime.
October 2019
Anxious empty-nesters have nothing to fear
- Bank of Mum and Dad
- Family Mortgage
- Later life planning
In our enlightened age where we are more sensitive about conditions which were previously cured with a swift ‘pull your socks up’ – a new syndrome has been identified. It is called Empty Nest Syndrome.
October 2019
Lending to your children – how to do it right
- Bank of Mum and Dad
- Family Mortgage
- Money & Lifestyle
The Earth is spherical, concrete is hard and there’s no rhyme for orange. And in further unsurprising news, the Bank of Mum and Dad is now a top ten lender in the UK, dishing out £6.3bn in the last year to help get their children on the housing ladder.
October 2019
Money matters, so talk and be open about it
- Bank of Mum and Dad
- Family Mortgage
- Money & Lifestyle
In this digital era where dialogue tends to be undertaken in silence with two thumbs and a mobile phone, one wonders if the true art of conversation – like rhetoric – is being forgotten.
October 2019
How to avoid your BoMaD dream becoming a nightmare
- Bank of Mum and Dad
- Family Mortgage
- Money & Lifestyle
Cue sound of stomping upstairs. Cue stomping. Loud teenage female voice: “If you hate me so much why did you bother having me!” Slam of door vibrates through house. “You’re still not borrowing the car!” Roll forward 15 years. “But Dad! I thought it was a gift! The money for the house, I mean (tears). You never said it was a loan and now you want it back with interest!” Ooops. The joys of parenthood huh?
October 2019
Time to sit for your BoMaD exams
- Bank of Mum and Dad
- Family Mortgage
- Money & Lifestyle
Even if you didn’t have the extreme misfortune to have booked a late summer holiday with Thomas Cook, you will no doubt still be wincing slightly at the forgotten credit card bills from foreign restaurants, cafes and adventures.
September 2019
Happy birthday to us – with the emphasis on happy
- Bank of Mum and Dad
- Family Mortgage
- First time buyers
- Later life planning
- Saving for the future
It used to be said by insurance salesmen of the old school, that the way to sell life assurance was to ‘scare ‘em to death’. So if the salesman was talking to a couple, he’d start talking to the woman. Often the man would interject fairly quickly. The salesman would say to the woman, “No, imagine that he’s dead”. The man would often just keep going. At this point the salesman would get out a small coffin and say, “No, you’re in there!”
August 2019