FROM THE PAPERS

Synopsis: Short summaries of articles we think you will find useful from some of the weekends broadsheets. At the end of each summary is a link to take you directly to the relevant article. Please see Helpful Hints at the end of the bulletin.

Date posted: Monday, January 13, 2014

ARTICLES

FINANCIAL TIMES 

Financial Times:” New-builds excluded from Help to Buy 2″. A number of high-street lenders are not offering loans for new-build properties through the mortgage guarantee part of Help to Buy, highlighting the increasingly complex relationship between the two halves of the government scheme and raising questions about its impact on the UK residential property market.

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Financial Times:” Annuity directory ‘biased’ against advice”. A new directory aimed at helping those approaching retirement shop around for a pension income is under fire over claims it steers consumers away from independent advice.

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Financial Times:” Non-doms could fall foul of remittance charges”. Wealthy individuals living in the UK could fall foul of changes to rules governing the status of non-domiciled residents if they cannot account for their movements over a 14-year period, warn accountants.

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THE TIMES

The Times:” Help to Buy eases way on to property ladder”. This week Santander became the latest lender to announce details of how it will make the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme available to borrowers. The bank will be offering two fixed rate deals, plus a variable rate tracker loan. Click here to go directly to the article

The Times:” Produce a pension income without an annuity”. As savers start to desert annuities for more flexible income plans, we look at the best options for retirement

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THE TELEGRAPH

The Telegraph:” 3.2 million think there is ‘no point’ saving for old age “. Threat to Coalition’s overhaul of the care system as study suggests 3.2 million over-50s have given up saving for old age believing it will only be taken to cover care

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HELPFUL HINTS

1. LINKS TO ARTICLES:

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Currently the Financial Times and Weekend Financial Times only allows access to view 8 articles a month free, then requiring the user to subscribe to their online service. From 1 July 2010 The Times, Saturday Times and Sunday Times articles are no longer available for free online. Instead a daily or monthly fee will have to be paid to access the articles.

We are aware of the inconvenience this will cause to our users. Unfortunately, due to the stringent copyright rules enforced by the newspapers we are not allowed to copy the articles onto our bulletin to make them available to Opus Gold users, thus our only option is to put a direct link to the article on the newspapers own website.

Although we will continue to produce From the Papers bulletins linking to these articles, users should be aware that access too many will now be blocked unless a personal subscription to the newspapers site is taken.

Once again we apologise for this inconvenience but this is something outside of our control.

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