The Great Debate UK
Why not scrap the Child Trust Fund?
-Rachel Mason is public relations manager at Fair Investment. The opinions expressed are her own.-
The Child Trust Fund is set to become one of the victims of the new UK Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition’s emergency budget.
The LibDems want to scrap it entirely; the Tories want to pull it from high earners. Currently, predictions are that there will be some sort of half way house, the official line being “the parties agree that reductions can be made to the Child Trust Fund and tax credits for higher earners.”
I have a one-year-old daughter who received her first Child Trust Fund payment a few weeks after she was born, which we then put into an account with the Children’s Mutual.
Should travel insurers pay up after volcano disruption?
- Rachel Mason is public relations manager at independent financial service providers Fair Investment Company. The opinions expressed are her own. -
Flights to and from the UK may have resumed in part, but the thousands cancelled over the past week as a result of the volcanic ash are estimated to have cost the airline industry 1.1 billion pounds.
The benefits of early ISA investment
- Rachel Mason is public relations manager at independent financial service providers Fair Investment Company. The opinions expressed are her own. -
The financial media has been packed full of ISA news over the past few months. Most of the advice has been ‘invest in your ISA before it’s too late’. And now it is too late. The media has found something else to write about because the tax year is over, and if you missed it, tough luck.
Women get paid less; but at least we get cheaper car insurance…
-Rachel Mason is public relations manager at independent financial service providers Fair Investment Company.The opinions expressed are her own. Reuters will host a “follow-the-sun” live blog on Monday, March 8, 2010, International Women’s Day. Please tune in.-
In this day and age, it seems that things are pretty much equal between the sexes; men and women have equal rights, and in theory, can do the same jobs, so why is it that when it comes to money, the gender gap still exists?
