IF YOU want to get the best return on your money and have already put all you can into a cash Isa this year, you may want to consider equity Isas – Isas that invest in stocks and shares. Equity Isas have a number of advantages over their cash counterparts. [ Read More → ]

The national average price of a pint is £2.68, but pubgoers will have to pay £3.01 for a pint of bitter in Surrey Photo: GEOFF PUGH Pubgoers will have to pay £3.01 for a pint of bitter in Surrey, according to the latest edition of the Good Pub Guide, published on [ Read More → ]

BOSTON (AP) - One steady bit of good economic news: Inflation remains near zero. So who would want to pay extra these days to add a dose of inflation protection in their portfolio? Plenty of people. It turns out sales are hot for Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, a common hedge against rising [ Read More → ]

Savers are being tempted with the certainty of fixed rates of return, but with the risk that future increases in inflation and variable returns could leave today’s top deals looking less competitive tomorrow. Most of the recent changes affect fixed-rate cash inidual savings account (Isa) products. In his [ Read More → ]

The last round in a legal battle affecting the pension rights of thousands of Britons abroad has been played out in front of human rights judges in Strasbourg. At a two-hour appeal hearing after years of courtroom wrangling, lawyers acting for 13 expatriates in a test case argued [ Read More → ]

DALLAS - The lack of a Social Security cost-of-living adjustment next year will have a ripple effect on some Medicare premiums, experts say. Many older adults were quick to lament the prospect of no COLA for 2010 when federal budget experts said earlier this year that beneficiaries probably shouldn’t expect one [ Read More → ]

BOSTON - It’s starting to seem as though retirees and those saving for retirement can’t catch a break. First comes news that there won’t be any cost-of-living increase for Social Security beneficiaries in 2010. Next we learn that beer prices are rising. And now we find that the maximum amount that [ Read More → ]

Do you need to worry about inflation? Prices for goods and services have been relatively tame for the last three decades, but billionaire investor Warren Buffett recently put words to the fear of many market professionals. Inflation may not be around the corner. But, he said in a recent opinion [ Read More → ]

WASHINGTON - Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise. The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won’t be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next two years. That hasn’t happened since automatic [ Read More → ]

Inflation? Ha! Since 1993, Pennsylvania has promised residents it would pay their children’s college bills if they set aside money at today’s lower tuition rates. The 529 Guaranteed Savings Plan pays private advisers about $270,000 a month to invest that money in U.S. and foreign stocks, bonds, real estate, venture capital, and [ Read More → ]