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15-01-2015, 09:26 PM
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I think Honey makes a good point. Is a transfer from an existing Nationwide ISA considered a transfer in? Have you confirmed this with Nationwide?
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15-01-2015, 10:04 PM
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Interest rates are carp and screw most folks. You have to have quite a load of money to invest for at least 3,better 5 years to have a chance of a decent return.
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15-01-2015, 11:44 PM
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Anyone know much about the new Pensioners Bonds which started today?
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15-01-2015, 11:52 PM
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info here Mups
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16-01-2015, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by orangutan ->
I think Honey makes a good point. Is a transfer from an existing Nationwide ISA considered a transfer in? Have you confirmed this with Nationwide?
Yes but I'm beginning to think I may have been misinformed so I'll ask at the branch tomorrow.

I've been given the wrong information before online - I use the internet banking with Secure Messaging - but when I double-checked at the branch the info I'd been given was wrong.

On that occasion I was given the wrong interest rate and it was all in connection with the Flexclusive ISA I want to start.

I'll let you know what the branch tells me!

This highlights one of the major problems deaf people have though - I have to use Banks where I can go into a branch because I can't use the 'phone.

It's all very well having telephone banking and advisers to 'phone but I can't do that and my wife just gets confused because she's not good on finance matters so I do all of ours.

I don't understand why banks & business do not try to improve email responses or, in many cases, actually answer emails as there are thousands of people like me and thousands more who would probably find emails a lot easier.

The Nationwide tends to be a bit slow in responding to Secure Messages but if I have any problem with my other bank I'm stuck because the nearest branch is Northampton or Aylesbury now.

After the performances of all the major High Street banks in recent years I do not trust any of them now and I've experienced RBS, Lloyds /TSB & NatWest in the past - Lloyds used to be fantastic and so was the old TSB!

That's why I'm with the Nationwide now. stevmk2
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16-01-2015, 01:59 PM
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I've been with them for many years and like the way they do business, they've always been very helpful, I do most of my banking online and have different accounts with them, one being the Flexclusive saver which gives a higher interest rate than others as its' tiered so because I've been a member for more that 15 years I get the best rate in town
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16-01-2015, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Honey ->
I've been with them for many years and like the way they do business, they've always been very helpful, I do most of my banking online and have different accounts with them, one being the Flexclusive saver which gives a higher interest rate than others as its' tiered so because I've been a member for more that 15 years I get the best rate in town
I've also been with them for many years, but alas now that I no longer live in the UK they won't let me have these deals.
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16-01-2015, 02:19 PM
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Interest rates are carp and screw most folks. You have to have quite a load of money to invest for at least 3,better 5 years to have a chance of a decent return.
Any ideas in where, if you do have a decent amount of money to invest? I wouldn't pay for a so called IFA, as from experience I don't believe they are independent in the end. Interest rates on anything 'safe' seem to be 4% tops as in the new Pensioner Bonds, which from a quick look, you can only invest 10k per person.
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16-01-2015, 05:29 PM
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Perhaps it's simply the time to stop thinking about saving, and start spending.
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16-01-2015, 07:03 PM
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Perhaps it's simply the time to stop thinking about saving, and start spending.
I can't spend it, it has to supplement a State Pension, unfortunately no private pension.
 
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