Saving more with ease

It can be very depressing when your savings accounts look emptier than your wallet, but there are very simple methods of improving your savings.

Keep your savings accounts in order

Savings accounts can become confusing if you are managing several in an inconvenient manner, but online banking can make things easier.

High interest accounts for money you don't need right away

Savings accounts for everyday use are all well and good for your weekly and monthly expenditures, but if you find you have a lot of money left over you should consider depositing it into a high interest account.

Complex First-home Accounts Could Change: Pm

THE Prime Minister has left the door open to changes to the Government's first home saver accounts after conceding the present design was "complex".

Take The Piggy Bank Shopping For High Rates

If you've got spare cash, there's a silver lining to the current credit squeeze. Faced with higher funding costs from the wholesale markets, banks and other financial institutions are looking to their traditional customers for more of their funding. Pick up any newspaper and you'll find it littered with ads for high-interest savings accounts and term deposits, with some offering rates in excess of 8per cent. After years of paying as little as possible to retail depositors, the banks have ...

When is it right to borrow and right to put money into savings accounts?

It can often be difficult to decide whether you should dedicate all your funds to a debt or else build up some cash in a high interest savings account.

Your money is safe in online savings accounts

Savings accounts these days will routinely offer online banking capability as a standard facility.

Play It Safe, Click For Cash

For short-term low-risk investment, banks are competing for the privilege of looking after your money by offering high-yielding online savings accounts, writes Bina Brown.

Choose the right savings accounts

Savings accounts do not all provide the same functionality, as some are designed to provide you with greater accessibility while others give you a higher interest rate.

Banks Smile At Cash Deposits

Customers are finally getting a fair return for parking their money in savings accounts.