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This is Money Podcast

This is Money Show - football crazy, sci-fi mad, buy-to-let, cheap wine, rising bills, Premium Bonds

This is Money Podcast

This is Money

Business, Investing, Business News, News

4.4735 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Can you trust a financial journalist who has never seen Star Wars?

Of course you can.

And you can listen to him tearing up the week's money news.

This is Money's chief entertainer and investigator, reporter and Star Wars virgin Lee Boyce joins editor Simon Lambert and Share Radio's Georgie Frost to discuss their favourite sci-fi movies, the mess that is the football business, a 30% hike in energy bills, what to do with a spare £100,000. Plus Premium Bonds, supermarket plonk and the country's creeping obsession with buy-to-let.

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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. I'm Georgie Frost and this is consuming issues. I'm here with you every weekday from 9 until 1 on Share Radio, on digital online, and through the Share Radio mobile app making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further.

0:22.6

The team from this is money, the award-winning finance section of the mail online, join me in the studio for our weekly catch-up.

0:28.7

Editor Simon Lambert, journalist Lee Boyce, here with me today to talk through the money stories they've been investigating, including we're being warned to take a good look at our energy

0:38.1

bills as we could be in for a bit of a shock.

0:41.2

Some of our bills could go up almost 30% as a result of 10 fixed-term energy tariffs and

0:46.5

four others set to expire.

0:49.1

Time to switch?

0:50.1

It is at the moment, unfortunately, still a fairly lengthy process.

0:53.1

You can switch your mobile phone provider overnight.

0:56.0

It still takes 17 days to switch your energy company.

0:58.0

It's still a complicated process in some ways.

1:00.0

I do think it's getting easier.

1:02.0

So the minor investor strikes against what would Simon Lambert do with a £100,000 pension pot?

1:08.0

Perhaps Bytele is your option a choice.

1:10.0

But as our obsession with Bytelech your option a choice, but as our obsession with

1:11.2

biotelet gone just a little bit too far, certainly seems to show no signs of letting up.

1:15.7

Landlords selling up leapt by a third across the nation in April. It comes as a Surrey home

1:20.9

listed on a crowdfunding website was snapped up by 126 investors in little over half an hour. Good idea?

1:29.0

If we can allow investors to invest across multiple properties, they can invest as much or as

1:33.5

little as they want. Every month they receive their share of net rental income, which they're

1:37.3

free to withdraw or reinvest, and have exposure to the underlying capital growth.

1:41.7

Also coming up, will you be one of the many savers expected to pour millions into premium bonds as the limit rises?

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