IF last week’s news from the major high street banks of £8bn in profits and bumper bonuses for staff was too much for you to bear, barely two years since the banks almost sank the global economy with reckless lending, you can always take your business elsewhere.
MANY of the 12 million private sector workers who see themselves as lucky to belong to final salary pension schemes probably shrugged their shoulders when the Government changed the rules that determine their pension payout.
THERE was something grimly ironic about the recent launch of an action group to champion the rights of savers, a species that is threatened with extinction.
AN army of about 180,000 music fans heads for the Glastonbury Festival, in the West Country, at the end of the month, and many will not notice they have gaping holes in their insurance policies as they set off.
