JEFF PRESTRIDGE: One year on Neil Woodford’s investment fund is still in lockdown – and we are nowhere near getting closure By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 22:13 BST, 30 May 2020 This time time last year, I was lucky enough to be walking the … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Time for savers to shop around… National Savings & Investments has let us down By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 7 September 2019 | Updated: 14:01 BST, 8 September 2019 National Savings & Investments is one of the country’s most trusted financial brands, but it doesn’t mean the … Read more
Fund manager Terry Smith is the Cristiano Ronaldo of the investment world. He is right at the top of his profession and, like the footballing maestro, he is handsomely rewarded for his particular ‘craft’ – an ability to generate stellar returns for investors that most rival managers do not possess. Yet, while most people accept … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: You help us do our jobs better… thank you By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 23:08 BST, 23 May 2020 I have proclaimed today ‘thank you Sunday’ – my little way of acknowledging all you wonderful readers who make my role as personal … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Banking in a kangaroo court has to stop: Robots are taking over the proverbial asylum By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 16 May 2020 There’s nothing wrong with online banking. Like most people, I embrace it and am often found in … Read more
There will be many changes for the worse when we finally creep out of lockdown and realise that the economy has gone into shrink mode. There will be fewer jobs to go to and some of the local businesses we once supported – cafes, restaurants, local bookshops – will no longer be there. Gone for … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Coronavirus lockdown must not be an excuse for axeing bank branches By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:59 BST, 2 May 2020 | Updated: 10:31 BST, 3 May 2020 Lockdown’s damaging impact on the UK economy has yet to be confirmed in hard numbers, but if you believe the experts, … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Robots, it appears, have taken over the NatWest asylum – it’s the banking equivalent of R2-D2 on steroids By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:54 BST, 18 April 2020 | Updated: 22:25 BST, 18 April 2020 Royal Bank of Scotland – owner of NatWest – may have won some plaudits … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: End this attack on the finances of the nation’s middle classes By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:15 BST, 13 April 2019 | Updated: 11:38 BST, 14 April 2019 Although I normally have little time for the pontifications of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, its latest report on … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Banks are hardly covering themselves in glory as businesses and households struggle for survival – they MUST be working for us By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:58 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 4 April 2020 Our country’s banks, some rescued by us taxpayers in the 2008 … Read more