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Hi all I recently started dipping my toes in equity markets via an online share dealing account. I will not be an active trader, I intend to buy and hold. I'm looking for a link to a (free) spreadsheet that will help keep track of investments. I could probably knock something up myself, but as a...

Hi Looking for advice in relation to the cancellation of a health insurance policy. I had a policy that covered my wife and I and our three children. I requested that the policy be amended to take the children off the policy and to reduce the level of cover for my wife and I. The insurer...

I agree with Carocon, get a Honda FRV. We bought one in 2005 and drove it until a few months ago. We found it the best family car on the market. We particularly liked the fact that there are 3 separate seats in the back making it easy to fit child seats and booster seats. The high roofline made...

Thanks Conan

Thanks for advice so far - I have a supplementary question, can a self administered pension fund subscribe for subordinated shares in (or otherwise invest in) a company established for the purpose of acquiring, refurbishing and selling classic cars?

Can anyone please advise if a self-administered pension can invest in a classic car?

Just board and take seats wherever you find them. When everyone is seated call the Ryanair attendant and ask him/her to take a bottle back to your 2 year old, and check if s/he needs a new nappy. You'll be seated together in jig time!

What do people like actors, musicians etc do? Who lends to them and how do they manage repayments?

Does anyone know if there's a mortgage product out there that's suitable for someone with a "lumpy" income stream i.e a mortgage where the odd missed payment doesn't attract a penalty, and where a double payment can be made on a good month. Otherwise I guess the same effect could be achieved...

Because it's hard work (unless you just leave your property with a local agent) and because, if you accept that the leaseback scheme will operate as advertised, it seems riskier. (Other posts here show however that the leaseback scheme is not a s reliable as advertised.) For what it's worth, my...

Thats what I figured too, I pay property taxes to the French Government after all, once is enough!

Is there an greater detail available on the Government's plans for a tax on second homes? I'm assuming, perhaps with naive optimism, that it is not possible to impose a property tax on property outside the State.

The Financial Regulator is secretive because it is part of the Central Bank, which in turn is part of the European System of Central Banks. Secrecy is a universal and necessary characteristic of Central Banking - fiat money is, after all, a confidence trick. Note that information held by a...

An insightful article on the challenges faced by financial regulators: http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12957717&CFID=40502017&CFTOKEN=91447076

Brassington Insurance might also be worth a shout - no connection. [broken link removed]

Finish your degree young man! A primary degree is the new Leaving Cert, and you will find it very difficult to build a career in the Civil Service without one. Perhaps the most difficult promotion to obtain is from CO to EO because of the numbers in the competition. You need a degree (and also a...

Re: Best Businesses in Recession??? Got to disagree on the DVD shop - I suspect that Movie channels, cheaper DVDs in the like of HMV/Virgin, pirate DVDs and on-line entertainment have all combined to kill-off the DVD store. I live in a town of 7,000 people that has had no DVD store for the...

Having kids helps you to pass the decades between when you are too old for nightclubs and yet too young for the zimmer frame!

Would an across the board pay cut for public servants not engender (or exacerbate) deflationary pressures? It sounds like a quick fix (and kicking public servants' backsides is always good sport), but has anyone seen a proper cost/benefit analysis (taking the multiplier effect into acount) by an...

I noticed that the conventional wisdom (ignoring the origins of that phrase) on this site is that French cars are unreliable. My experience is otherwise, but the experience of one motorist does not constitute evidence - so I went looking for some. Whatcar publishes a reliability index that gives...