This is Money Show: Asking prices, blowing a pension, investing mistakes and British Gas shares windfalls
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Simon Lambert and Rachel Rickard Straus join Georgie Frost to talk about how much to offer on a property, how to make a pension last, why Sid could have made a mint on British Gas shares and Simon reveals an honest look at a year's investing.
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
Producer: Georgie Frost
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| 0:00.0 | A very warm welcome to consuming issues here on Shareido with me. |
| 0:11.7 | Georgie Frost, the team from This Is Money, the award-winning finance section of the Mail Online. |
| 0:16.4 | Join me in the studio for our weekly catch-up. |
| 0:19.4 | Ed to Simon Lambert is joined by journalist Rachel Rickard Strauss today |
| 0:23.1 | to talk through the top stories they've been investigating including. |
| 0:27.6 | While Simon takes a rather honest look at his own minor investing one year on, |
| 0:32.4 | turning a bit Warren Buffett on us, |
| 0:34.8 | have the new pension freedoms caused a rush on sports cars and hot tubs? |
| 0:39.7 | How much can you trust a High Street estate agent's figures when selling your home? |
| 0:44.2 | You're very unlikely to get an incredibly strong price and do so very, very quickly. |
| 0:49.1 | We'll find out how one couple face a £25,000 bill after Capita posted 1.5 million pounds of share certificates |
| 0:58.0 | by second class post, which never arrived. And do you remember this? |
| 1:04.1 | What's up? You know these British gas shares? They're really easy to do. Give them a ring. |
| 1:10.7 | You see, sit, tell you. |
| 1:12.3 | It couldn't be easier to apply for a share of the shares. For more information and to reserve a prospectus, phone 0272-272 anytime. |
| 1:21.5 | They did have the best voiceover artists, didn't they, back in the day? That was the British Gas, Tell Sid, campaign from the 80s. |
| 1:28.5 | If you did buy shares, well, you could be quids in. Plus, we've been asking today, the man known as the voice of cricket, Richie Benno has passed away at the age of 84. |
| 1:38.4 | The reason that we're talking about it today is because in a former life, I was a sports journalist, and Richie Benno inspired me to go into sports journalism. |
| 1:47.0 | Our legend, voice of my youth, so we're asking today, who inspired you to go into your career? |
| 1:54.0 | A very warm welcome, editor Simon Lambert, journalist Rachel Rickard Strauss. |
| 1:59.0 | Simon Lambert, who inspired you? |
| 2:04.6 | That's a very difficult question to give a politician's answer. Nobody really particularly inspired me to go into my journalism career. But I suppose it's a bit of a naff answer, but basically |
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