We have just launched Squirrel Money which is a new peer-to-peer lending platform. It's early days and we know we have a hard journey ahead of us.
With interest rates (and rental yields) trending ever lower the opportunity to get a return of over 8.00% p.a. should be taken seriously.
Flat money is paper money that comes into existence by government law. It is not valued to any ‘objective standard’ to say a commodity like gold or silver, so governments can produce as much money as they like. When you hear the expression ‘printing money’ that’s what is being referred to.
After almost a year of IT development and scurrying about Squirrel Money has been licensed by the FMA to be a peer-to-peer lender.
If you worked in the UK you probably accumulated one or more pension funds that are now still sitting there.
In the absence of providing advice, I thought I'd let you into my world and what I'm saying to my own parents who are semi-retired.
An equity release mortgage (ERM) is not for everyone but, used properly, it can give significant freedom and quality of life to many people who own property and are on a limited income such as government superannuation.