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Advisors.ie, Irish News of the World’s ‘Money Expert’ on alarms

Monday, June 13, 2011

Sometimes financial decisions are not about saving money, but about spending money to avoid loss. This is what much of insurance is, it is acknowledging a risk and taking a step to mitigate that risk at an appropriate price. In finance fund managers do it all the time and call it a ‘hedge’, which is where the term ‘hedge fund’ came from. Today we are going to take this down to the more simple scenario of protecting your home and looking at the cost of doing this.

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Property: Banks are capturing the value of price drops (Independent 10th June 2011)

Friday, June 10, 2011

BENEFITS to first-time buyers from drastic falls in property prices are wiped out by sharp increases in mortgage costs, new research shows. House prices have dived by 40pc since 2007, which means potential buyers would need a much smaller mortgage. But a series of mortgage-rate hikes by all lenders mean that the cost of servicing even a small mortgage has shot up. Mortgage expert Karl Deeter accused banks of capturing most of the gains for potential buyers of lower prices by pushing up mortgage costs.

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