Carol Gould
2009-04-26 16:31:17
Another aspect of this is the fact that people on low salaries like me — yes, even in TV I earned very little because in those days it was not a big-bucks job — have to decide whether to put that extra £100 a month into a piggy bank, small savings account or a pension/endowment fund. Maybe I was a mug, like millions of other British citizens talked into endowment packages, but I now tell young people to have a little set aside in a small savings account with a ‘safe bank’ ( if there is such a thing!) or in Treasury Bonds/good old fashioned National Savings certificates. Back to what our impoverished and prudent parents and grandparents did….
