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  • The nice thing about PBs is they're usually close to competitive and you don't have to touch them. With things like a Cash ISA you're going to have to check in on it every year and possibly transfer the account when the interest rate drops to something shit like 0.5%. You said multiple times you don't pay any attention to this stuff so I'd check if there's a promotional interest rate term and if there is consider whether you're actually going to bother to move the money around to take advantage

  • Yeah, so that's why something like 212 sounds good. It'll get some bonus rate for 12 months and then drop I presume, but by then I'll either be happy with it sitting there or I'll be taking the money out and move elsewhere/spend. Same deal as my bank account bonus saver thing but earning more interest and tax-free or whatever.

  • I don't think 212 has the bonus rate model.
    I understand their aim is to get a load of people to save with them in the hope that some of them get lured in to CFDs, for which they do make charges. That's what monevator seemed to reckon anyway.

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