Best cash Isas: Marcus Bank opens its doors to everyone a week after launch

Will this trigger a tax-free savings war? Marcus Bank now opens its near-best buy Isa paying 0.4% up to EVERYONE after it launched the account last week Tax-free account from Marcus was finally launched after two years of waiting  It was initially open to existing customers only  It still does not accept transfers but the … Read more

The top performing funds and investment trusts since Isas were launched in 1999? 

The final year of the last millennium: a total solar eclipse was eclipsed by cloud in the skies above the UK and the euro was born. Perhaps with less fanfare, the individual savings account was launched. But keen savers who piled into a stock and shares individual savings account in April 1999 – and those … Read more

The top performing funds and investment trusts since Isas were launched in 1999? 

The final year of the last millennium: a total solar eclipse was eclipsed by cloud in the skies above the UK and the euro was born. Perhaps with less fanfare, the individual savings account was launched. But keen savers who piled into a stock and shares individual savings account in April 1999 – and those … Read more

Junior Isas: How to save for a child to give them a bumper pot of cash

A combination of the new £9,000 tax-free allowance and lockdowns leaving some parents with more money has led to a spike in Junior Isa savings over the last year. DIY investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, which runs around a third of all investment Jisas, said more had been opened and more money paid in in the … Read more

Isas: Rishi Sunak urged to use the Budget to fix Britain’s broken system

The Chancellor should use next week’s Budget to simplify the Isa system and scrap the trend of having one for ‘almost every day of the week’, savings industry experts have said. Figures including Andy Bell, chief executive of DIY investment platform AJ Bell, and former pensions minister Baroness Altmann, told This is Money the tax-free … Read more