JEFF PRESTRIDGE: MPs must ramp up pressure to help victims of scams

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: MPs must grill bank bosses over why they are refusing to help many customers who have lost life-changing sums of money to scams By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 12 June 2021 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 12 June 2021 I trust members of the Treasury Select Committee will … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: We were right… loyalty really does matter

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: We were right about insurance companies… loyalty really does matter By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:28 BST, 29 May 2021 | Updated: 22:28 BST, 29 May 2021 It’s been a tortuous journey, but at long last the City regulator has acted to stop loyal customers being exploited by greedy … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: We need law to keep cash in our High Streets

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Message is clear, Government action on access to cash in our High Streets is imperative now By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 8 May 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 8 May 2021 Nearly  two years ago, I attended a ‘cash summit’ event hosted by consumer group Which? It … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Enjoy the park but Britain MUST return to work

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: The only way this country is going to get back on its feet is through the wheels of commerce clicking back into overdrive By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 3 April 2021 It was fantastic to do a Boris Johnson last … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: So unmutual…fat bonus for savings bosses

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Six-figure bonuses for bosses, at a time when Covid has hit savings customers, seems egregious and terribly unmutual By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 22:35 BST, 27 March 2021 Yorkshire Building Society made all the right noises last week when it announced an … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: There are still some brilliant fund bosses

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Exceptional investment managers can be counted on the fingers of one hand By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 20 March 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 20 March 2021 There are few investment managers whose reputations stand the test of time. Most fall gently by the wayside while a … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE on Neil Woodford’s comeback

Much to the chagrin of most of his former investors, fund manager Neil Woodford is on the comeback trail. Or so he hopes. Seven days ago, 60-year-old Woodford broke cover to reveal his plans to launch a new investment business based in Jersey.  This is some 16 months after being fired from running Woodford Equity … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Chancellor MUST help entrepreneurs

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: We need entrepreneurs to survive in order to drive economy forward as Covid threat weakens – Chancellor MUST help them By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 16 January 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 16 January 2021 The big financial story of the moment is the economic destruction resulting … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Trust me… good times are around the corner

What an awful year we’ve just experienced. Never again I hope. Fear, loss, lockdown, separation from loved ones (Mums and Dads, especially) and economic emasculation on a scale I’ve not witnessed before in my 31 long years as a personal finance editor for a national newspaper. Yes, tough times, awful times, sad times – and … Read more