Hell hath no fury like a modern customer scorned
Run for cover: Buy-to-let home insurance
The with-profit wagon keeps on rolling along
Fresh option for savers as fixed bonds hit 6 per cent
Many savers are still waiting to see if their providers are going to increase their interest rates in line with this month's quarter-point base-rate rise to 5.25 per cent. A number of banks and building societies have been slow to respond.
Rebels claim Portman/Nationwide merger will be the end of mutuals
It's the finance sector's own version of David and Goliath. A tiny internet-based lobby group, Portman Members Against the Takeover (PMAT), is campaigning to try to derail the merger of the Portman and Nationwide building societies.
Investors play safe and end up getting soaked
Sam Dunn: Pension punch-up: back the underdog
Some fights just seem to go on for ever. Last week, the protagonists in a battle over compensation for workers deprived of pension income through no fault of their own staggered from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and back towards the UK High Court.
Wealth Check: 'How can I put past errors right and repair my credit rating?'
The problem: It's time to 'behave' but debts run deep
Money News: Regulator warns workers against sleepwalking from final salary schemes
Workers offered rewards to switch out of their pension fund must consider the financial implications carefully, the Pensions Regulator has warned.
Manors from heaven
The Mortgage Clinic: 'Should I switch to an interest-only deal?'
"I'm mortgaged to the hilt, and recent rises mean I'm feeling the pinch. I am tempted to switch to an interest-only deal, though I know that if I don't get an endowment I won't be able to pay it off. But can't I just sell up at that point, when the children have left, and use the equity I've built up to buy somewhere smaller?"
Property in Brazil is on the rise
More For Your Money: Hampton
My Home: Jimmy Boyle
Victoria Summerley: Town Life
FOR MANY people, trees only really come into focus when they become a problem. Those big green things down the end of the garden or in front of your house stand there, year in, year out, decade after decade. But until a force-nine gale comes along, and they fall on top of the car or the fence, or the extension, no one really takes much notice.
