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Most people are preoccupied with getting ready for Christmas and don’t want to think about whether they need insurance. I’m finished with these preparations. So, I’m sitting here making an inventory of our insurance arrangements. Yep, I was right: our car and house insurance need to be renewed in…
Did I tell you about the time when I almost knocked myself out? I didn’t think so. It is rather embarrassing and very ‘professorial’: I am such a cliché. Several years back I was invited to a research workshop in Granada. Of course I accepted: Granada is one of my…
We all fear it, those of us who take to motoring. That time when you are stuck in a traffic jam or worse, car full of kids, outside temperature rising – or raining cats and dogs – and the engine starts to falter – putter, putter, putter … silence. This…
Yesterday we were sitting in the garden – yes, we do have a bit of summer here in Manchester, England – having coffee and chatting. Then suddenly, John grinned and said: ‘Darling Prof, you did remember to lock the apartment in Sofia, didn’t you?’ …and I went from ‘relaxed’ to…
Editor’s note: This post was written in collaboration with EMCAS: they kindly provided the data but the analysis and sentiments are mine. For more information about how EMCAS can help you to make a claim for financial mis-selling please visit: www.missing-millions.co.uk I still remember the day I got my first…
Yesterday I was chatting to a friend of mine on the phone; many friends gossip or make trivial arrangements. But I am a personal finance blogger and had just looked at out budgeting spreadsheet…so I mentioned how proud I am that couple of years ago managed to get higher insurance…
There is a lot to be said about automating your finances and I am a great proponent of it. In fact, I can safely say that our finances are as automated as they could be – at the beginning of each month set amounts of money flow to different accounts…
This article was contributed by David at CK Claims – a personal injury solicitor based in Manchester, UK Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke’s plans to reform the ‘no win, no fee’ legal scheme, due to fears of Britain’s growing compensation culture, will have a huge impact on the justice system. Ostensibly,…
OK, let’s say that the going is really tough; I mean financially. Remember the choices I was talking about in my post about not having any money at all? When it comes to this it is probably easier to cut costs rather than go for increasing income. What would you…