Financial magazine

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• What are the best cash ISAs for the new tax year 2012/3?

  ISAs can also be transferred across year on year, so if you have an account offering 3% for a year, you can still switch that around afterwards to get the best rates. As long as that money stays within ISAs it will never incur tax. You need to watch out for withdrawal penalties and charges though!

• Make Money from your Second Home

• 10 Ways to Make Your Tax Refund Count

• Technical Indicators in the Forex Market

  Technical Indicators in the Forex Market. The global meltdown has had a negative impact on the financial markets and each day, more and more traders are saying goodbye to Forex Trading.

• Budget Implications for High Value Property

  Increase in stamp duty for residential property purchases over £2m, find out more.

• Ramifications of Not Paying a Credit Card Company

  Aside from the fact that purposefully not paying a credit card balance essentially represents unethical behavior, it can also trigger a lot of financial and legal problems.

• UK Unemployment at 17-Year High

  It doesn't look good for the government's 'families tsar' and the activities of A4e have come under harsh scrutiny in the context of the UK's continuing unemployment issues.

• Empty Shop Numbers Still Rising in 2012

  A recent study by the Local Data Company (LDC) in the UK suggests that the empty shop numbers across our country's streets are only set to increase in 2012.

• Tips for Buying Homes Abroad

  Buying a holiday home, or even going the whole hog and moving abroad, might seem like a dream but unless you’re savvy it can quickly turn into a nightmare. Here are some things to think about.

• Cutting the cost of home insurance

  Home insurance is a term that applies to literally thousands of insurance products, as well as being a catch all for both buildings and contents cover

• An Introduction to the Actuarial Profession

  A brief guide to the actuarial world. The core role of an actuary is to evaluate, manage and advise on financial risk. They should have a good understanding of economics and business combined, as well as a strong mathematical brain with the ability to work with probability theory, statistics and investment theory.

• First Buy: the £250 million scheme to assist first time buyers in securing mortgages

  Back in March 2011, the chancellor George Osborne announced a new initiative called First Buy, designed to aid those struggling to arrange first time buyer mortgages. Since 2008, providers of mortgages such as Santander - and indeed all of the major mortgage lenders - have required a proportionally greater deposit from those looking to buy a house. This has particularly hit first time buyers, who are not in a position to cash in equity from a previous property to reach the 10% deposit that is the pretty much universally required minimum for UK lenders of mortgages since the Credit Crunch.

• uSwitch: there is another way

  Every day when we turn on the TV we are inundated by adverts about new cheap insurance deals, offers to save money with your business insurance and many other messages which all try to persuade us to buy into their services, but how can we be sure that this or that company is utterly reliable?

• Secure your Future and Protect Yourself with Personal Insurance

  Life is full of uncertainties, dangers and gloomy events. We must live with a steady optimistic frame of mind and try to always see the bright side of life, but this cannot allow us to be reckless and so we must live with the maxim of "prevention is better than the cure".

• Business Link - Helping businesses find their feet

  Looking to start up your own business? Not sure where to start? Take a look at Business Link: the government's online resource for businesses.

• Secured But Not Security

  Personal loans can be sub-categorised into two types, secured and unsecured, and many people are automatically drawn to the idea of a secured loan because it sounds, well, much more secure. The important thing to remember, however, is that a secured loan isn't there to provide security for you, it's there to provide security for the lender.