isa

A friend took out a one year fixed rate ISA at the start of February this year at 1.3% . He has since found a one yr fixed rate ISA at 1.65%. The penalty for transferring the Feb one is 180 days loss of interest. By my calculations, he is better off with the 1.65% one. Am I right? Because the...

Is it worth bothering with these anymore? Just been checking the rates and they are utterly hopeless.

ISA limit increased - good. Rates still rubbish - poor. Get better returns on Santander 123 current account?

I broadly get them but not sure on some of the detail. Say you take out an ISA, you put in the full whack for a year, and then you get paid interest after that year. Fine. After that, if you add nothing to it - presumably nothing will happen and you will earn no more interest. If you add...

New Fiscal year so check you ISA %...mine just came in for last year @ 0.56%.. Barclays :eek: Go check yours now and SWITCH:thumb:

My daughter's German teacher has just rung up asking why we have not completed the ISA and CRb check form for the schools german exchange in March? We thought that the requirement to register had been dropped following Ed Balls acceptance of the Sir Roger Singleton's Report in December 2009...