{"id":1196,"date":"2016-01-11T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/savings-rates-hit-record-low\/"},"modified":"2016-01-11T22:25:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:25:16","slug":"savings-rates-hit-record-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/savings-rates-hit-record-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Savings rates hit 'record low'"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nInterest rates, as measured by the average easy-access cash Isa rate, are just slightly above 1%, says MoneyfactsSavings rates have hit a record low, according to data published on Monday, just as thousands of people are expected to start looking for a new home for their nest-egg cash when the first pensioner bonds mature on Friday. The National Savings & Investments pensioner bonds, known officially as 65+ guaranteed growth bonds, went on sale in January 2015 and were a huge success, with 470,000 people signing up for the one-year version of the account paying 2.8% interest. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Interest rates, as measured by the average easy-access cash Isa rate, are just slightly above...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-ji","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75886,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-time-to-act-as-nsis-pensioner-bonds-mature\/","url_meta":{"origin":1196,"position":0},"title":"It\u2019s time to act as NS&I\u2019s \u2018pensioner bonds\u2019 mature","date":"January 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The investment grew at a whopping 4%, but if you don\u2019t cash in your bonds they will automatically be reinvestedSavers who back in 2015 had the good sense to invest in National Savings & Investments\u2019 three-year 65+ Guaranteed Growth Bond have a decision to make. 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