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Archive for December, 2014

Outside of my time at Scottish Friendly, I have the very great privilege of being Vice Chair on the board of Save the Children UK. Save the Children helps improve the lives of children across the world in a range of ways.  From working to ensure children in the UK leave primary school reading competently and able to fulfil their full potential, to significantly reducing…


In the past, long before the advent of ISAs, the closest many people got to investing in the stock market was through a with-profits policy.  They were encouraged by a system involving the prospect of annual with-profits bonuses that promised to smooth out fluctuations in share prices and there was also the prospect of a final bonus at the end of the term.   In the…


It’s Christmas jumper day today at Scottish Friendly. As per the last couple of years, Scottish Friendly staff have donned their winter woollies to raise funds for Save the Children. It’s been great fun and we’ve raised some cash for this good cause into the bargain. Congratulations to Ross MacLeod (1st Place) and Mark Rennie (2nd Place) who won the prizes for best jumpers!  


It’s that time of year. Christmas is almost upon us and the festive season, with all of its financial trappings, is in full swing. It would be difficult to argue against the fact that the season has become a hugely commercial enterprise. Indeed, for many households the Christmas period is a time when finances are put under enormous strain, with already tight monthly budgets being…


Unless you had your head buried in a really good book, you may have seen or heard the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, give his traditional Autumn Statement this week; a mid-year assessment of the state of the current economy and the Government’s strategy on future economic policy. In it, Mr Osborne spoke of the current strength of the UK economy and how economic…


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