Gareth Shaw

We’re asking you, the Which? Conversation community, to help answer people’s financial queries. This month, we’re asking what you’d to with a lump of cash if you were lucky enough to have one. (more about investing lump sums...)

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Not many people can say they've swooned at the Chancellor, but that’s the feeling I had when he announced the two new measures under the Help to Buy mortgage scheme in his Budget speech last month. (more about the Help to Buy scheme...)

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In a new column, we’re asking you, the Which? Conversation community, to help answer people’s financial queries. This month, it’s what to do with your pension pot when you retire. (more about money matters...)

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I doubt many people share my sustained enthusiasm for mathematics, and a new survey from BAE Systems confirms this. It seems many people can't live without a calculator - can you? (more about mental arithmetic...)

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Our latest Quarterly Consumer Report has found that many people are generally clueless about how much money they need for a comfortable life in retirement. Do you think you’ll have enough when you retire? (more about the plight of future pensioners...)

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The government has announced new plans to change how people pay for their care in the future. It hopes to reduce the number of people having to sell their homes to pay for care, but will the measures be enough? (more on the cost of care...)

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A survey has found that first-time buyers need to save up for an average of eight years before they can afford a deposit, compared to just one year in 1995. So what’s behind the drastic increase? (more about saving for a mortgage...)

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No matter what industry you work in, it’s fair to say that our jobs take up a considerable amount of our time and energy. But did you know that they also take up a considerable amount of our monthly outgoings? (more about paying to work...)

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Now that the current Coalition government has been in power for two and a half years, the two party leaders have set out broad brush proposals for the rest of their term in office. But do their proposals go far enough? (more about the Coalition's mid-term Review...)

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Believe it or not, yet another mis-selling scandal is engulfing financial services. This time it's card and identity theft insurance, and banks should not be let off the hook. Have you ever bought card or ID theft insurance? (more on the ID theft insurance scandal...)

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George Osborne has delivered his third Autumn Statement amid a stagnating economy and a budget deficit that refuses to shrink. But how will the measures he announced today impact on your personal finances? (more about the Autumn Statement...)

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If you need to find out an essential piece of info about your bank account, turning to the T&Cs is a daunting process. Yet they’re often into the thousands of words and littered with incomprehensible language. (more about bank T&Cs...)

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