Banks love students. It’s proven that you’re likely to stick with the bank you choose for your student finances for life. The banks know this and they try to entice you to choose them with offers of freebies and huge overdrafts. We’ve waded through the various student accounts out there to help you find the [...]
Saving & Investing
Saving: Best Monthly Interest Accounts
If you want to make the most of your savings, and get a regular income from the interest you earn on them, then a monthly saving account is for you. Read on to find out exactly how they work, and which ones the Moneymagpies think are the best.
What are monthly interest accounts?
Who should get one?
What [...]
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The six-step guide to student finance
Saving money and reducing debt at university is far easier than you may realise and doesn’t necessarily require you to cut back on all the fun things. It’s all about learning how to budget quickly and maximising your student status by getting as much for free or on the cheap as you can!
Yes it’s [...]
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PPI – did you get tricked into buying it?
Payment protection insurance (PPI) has been flogged by banks and credit providers for years. It makes the industry an absolute fortune, but we can’t hold it against them because we the borrowers need to have it….don’t we? No, the fact is you don’t have to have PPI, yet thousands of us have been manipulated into buying it. You [...]
Further Features
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How much money do you need to be happy?
As The Beatles so wisely said: ‘money can’t buy you love’. But can it buy you happiness? Is there a money/happiness equation, or does having more money just make you miserable? We all want to know how to be happy, and even if we convince ourselves that money doesn’t have anything to do with it, [...]
