The danger of dwindling protection

00:01 | 20 Nov 2008 | By Lorna Bourke

Picky insurers alongside proposals from the Competition Commission could leave many without adequate protection cover.

Credit card providers squeeze a little harder

00:01 | 13 Nov 2008 | By Lorna Bourke

Plastic is becoming less attractive as a method of borrowing.

Searching for their mojo

00:01 | 07 Nov 2008 | By Lucian Camp

Its not easy finding and promoting that quality that makes a company distinct - but it pays for some.

Life companies are not out of the woods yet

00:01 | 05 Nov 2008 | By Edward Lander

Insurers have weathered the credit crunch better than others in the financial sector but, ominously, things could be about to change.

Never a cloudier crystal ball

00:01 | 29 Oct 2008 | By Lucian Camp

What effect will the economic crisis have on financial advertising?

Are mortgage brokers worth it?

00:01 | 24 Oct 2008 | By Linton Chiswick

They're being squeezed and their reputations have suffered. Is their advice actually worth paying for?

Pensions: the stick is bigger than the carrot

00:01 | 17 Oct 2008 | By Lucian Camp

Selling the merits of pensions to the public was never easy. Market crashes just make the task harder still.

How safe are your savings with foreign banks?

13:45 | 14 Oct 2008 | By Lorna Bourke

Determining how much compensation you will get if your bank goes bust is a little more complicated than just looking at the FSCS guarantee.

Famous – for five years anyway

00:01 | 10 Oct 2008 | By Lucian Camp

With star fund managers now appearing in advertising why have fund management groups lost their reluctance to put them in the limelight? 

Big guns too scared of independent financial advisers

00:01 | 03 Oct 2008 | By Lucian Camp

Many financial companies don't communicate enough with clients - just for fear of upsetting IFAs.

Football loses its shirt over sponsorship deals

00:01 | 21 Sep 2008 | By Lucian Camp

Football shirt sponsorship occupies one of those strange semi-commercial bits of the marketing landscape populated with activities of entirely unproven cost-effectiveness.

When customers shun the medium's message

00:01 | 04 Sep 2008 | By Lucian Camp

One effect of the credit crunch is that fewer financial advertisements are appearing in the media. Particularly badly hit are the personal finance sections of newspapers.

The same difference

00:01 | 29 Aug 2008 | By Lucian Camp

Looking for car insurance? Expect a barrage of dogs, phones, elephants and pink Cadillacs, but not much variation in between.

One couple's experience with Barclays Wealth

00:01 | 07 Aug 2008 | By Lorna Bourke

A loss of £50,000 in six months is what the Hudsons got for venturing into what was originally described as a medium risk investment.

Upset by offset

00:01 | 25 Jul 2008 | By Lucian Camp

Rationally, offset mortgages make sense. But emotionally?

Immune to advertising?

00:01 | 18 Jul 2008 | By Lucian Camp

Most advertising doesn't set out to sell you something you don't want; whether we realise or not, in fact most of us are influenced by it.

Spending it

00:01 | 11 Jul 2008 | By Lucian Camp

Planning how to use your hard-earned retirement cash.

Big banks, bad ads

00:01 | 04 Jul 2008 | By Lucian Camp

Is there a link between the care banks put into their adverts and the service their customers receive?

Prudential keeps the estate within the family

12:42 | 27 Jun 2008 | By Chris Marshall

The Pru’s decision not to pay out its £8.7 billion with-profits surplus, or 'inherited estate', might be disappointing for policyholders, but it could pay off in the long run.

Reckless conservatism: the sin of the British investor

00:01 | 27 Jun 2008 | By Lucian Camp

With few fund managers beating the crunch, is the risk premium worth the bother?

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