4.2 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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The costly experience of being unknowingly signed up to a phone competition service. We hear how one subscription cost a Money Box listener over £1,000 across 5 years.
A new Sharia compliant investment fund has been launched on the London Stock Exchange. How does it work?
Edinburgh - Scotland's wealthiest city - launches a plan to get rid of poverty by 2030.
And hints and tips for making difficult financial decisions.
Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researcher: Darin Graham Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon
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0:41.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Paul Lewis and in this Moneybox podcast, |
0:44.3 | a new type of Sharia-compliant investment fund was launched in London. |
0:49.3 | Whether you're a Muslim or not, how good are Sharia investments? |
0:52.3 | And are they a good idea for non-Muslims? Scotland's |
0:56.6 | richest city, Edinburgh, is still plagued by poverty. A new project wants to end that in |
1:02.4 | ten years. And decisions, decisions. Why is money top of the list when it comes to decisions |
1:08.9 | we find difficult to make? But first, when did you |
1:12.7 | last look carefully at the items listed on your mobile phone bill? Most of us, I suspect the |
1:18.1 | answer is, I can't remember, or maybe, never. Well, that approach proved to be very expensive |
1:24.3 | for one listener. It cost her £4.50 a week every week for more than five years. |
1:30.8 | Dan Whitworth's been looking into this and, Dan, do the arithmetic for me. How much did she spend? |
1:35.8 | Well, Paul, I should probably let the listener in question answer that. This is Sally Giles, |
1:41.3 | who told me she was horrified by what she found. I went back through my bill |
1:45.8 | as carefully as I could, and as far as I can see, they have taken £1,206 from my phone bill |
1:54.5 | without my permission. Is that there some phone bill down? Yes, just over £1,200, as you heard Sally say, spread over five years. |
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