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Hargreaves Lansdown Launches Biggest Ever Cashback Offer Worth Up to £40,000

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Hargreaves Lansdown has launched its biggest cashback promotion to date, offering existing customers as much as £10,000 per account for transferring or contributing additional money to the investment platform. The promotion runs from 1 October until 30 November 2026 and could potentially pay an individual customer up to £40,000 if they qualify for the maximum

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Lightyear Gilts

Lightyear Launches Commission-Free Gilt Investing in the UK for Individuals

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Lightyear has added UK government bonds, or gilts, to its investment platform, giving UK customers a low-cost way to buy individual gilts alongside shares, ETFs and money market funds. The investing app has launched with 20 gilts, which can be bought, held and sold with no order fees or custody charges for individual investors. As

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How To Buy Aim Shares

How To Buy AIM Shares & Invest On The Alternative Investment Market

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How to buy AIM shares To buy AIM shares you need a stock broker that provides access to smaller-cap shares like Hargreaves Lansdown or interactive investor. These are what we think are some of the best stock brokers for investing in AIM stocks and why: Hargreaves Lansdown – excellent market access, research pricing data and

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Can you really get rich quick

735,000 UK Teens Spent £55.5m Chasing Get-Rich-Quick Schemes On Social Media

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Another day, another dire statistic from social media. Freetrade, the investment app owned by IG found that more than 735,000 UK teenagers have spent an estimated £55.5 million trying to copy “get rich quick” content they have seen online. Freetrade surveyed 1,000 teenagers and 1,000 parents through OnePoll and found that 34% of teenagers had

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Moneyfarm Absolute Return All Weather Portfolio

Moneyfarm launches an All Weather absolute return portfolio designed to make money in rising and falling markets

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Moneyfarm has launched a new All Weather portfolio, an actively managed absolute return strategy designed to generate positive returns over the medium term without relying on stock or bond markets rising. The new portfolio sits within Moneyfarm’s Wealth Management service and is available through its Absolute Return investment style. Unlike a conventional balanced portfolio, the

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Pension Transfers

Is it better to have various different kinds of pension pots or is there a tangible, economic benefit to amalgamating them?

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A reader has asked: I have several different pensions, one frozen from 1995, one private personal pension managed by myself through an investment platform), one 18-year pension managed by trustees (defined/guaranteed final sum) and one ongoing pension with my current employer (maxed out contributions to leverage most from my employer contributions). Is it better or

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