This is Money Show - Perils of mini-bonds, car park investing, fix your mortgage and Lloyds sales techniques
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Invest in a car park? Not everyone would be tempted by that, but there are plenty of people flocking to esoteric investments. Is that wise?This week we take an entertaining if gloomy look at the prospect of mortgage interest rate rises, Lloyds Bank's efforts to rip off customers, gold, mini bonds and a couple of unusual investments: rugby balls and car parking spaces at Gatwick airport.With Tanya Jefferies, Simon Lambert and Georgie Frost.
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
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| 0:00.0 | A very good morning and welcome to Share Radio. I'm Georgie Frost here with you every weekday from 9 until 1 on digital online and through the Share Radio mobile app, making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further. The team from This Is Money, the award-winning finance website, are back in the studio for their weekly catch-up. Today I'm joined by editor Simon Lambert and pensions expert |
| 0:38.3 | Tanya Jeffries and this week they're tackling banks and whether they're back to their old ways. |
| 0:43.5 | Will there be a time when we don't have any conduct or litigation? I don't think that'll |
| 0:47.3 | be the case but I think that we will get through the big cases of the past and deal with those issues. |
| 0:53.6 | We've had a swatath of half-yearly results |
| 0:55.7 | from the banks as more billions are put aside for PPI mis-selling. Also, you're hoping to get |
| 1:01.4 | a cheap deal on your mortgage, you better hurry. We discover the top five cash icers and... |
| 1:13.6 | No, not that sort of bond. |
| 1:17.3 | We talk retail and mini bonds and alternative investments. |
| 1:20.0 | Fancy keeping your cash in a car park. |
| 1:21.1 | What are the options? |
| 1:22.5 | What you should look out for? |
| 1:23.6 | And it's good news. |
| 1:26.4 | If like me, this sound sends shivers down your spine. |
| 1:29.0 | Unexpected item in bagging area. Unexpected item in bagging area. Unexpected item in bagging area. |
| 1:31.0 | Unexexexexexexexed item in bagging area. |
| 1:34.0 | Remove this item before continuing. |
| 1:36.0 | Thankfully Tesco have removed that particular item and that particular voice and it will be at all 12,000 of its self-service checkouts by the end of October. |
| 1:44.9 | They'll be replacing it with a new voice instead, said to be more calming, more calming phrases as well. |
| 1:50.0 | So we want to know today whose voice would you replace it with? |
| 1:54.0 | A very good morning, Simon, a very good morning, Tanya. |
| 1:57.1 | Hello, Georgie. |
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