RTE article today - savings rates

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podgerodge

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Can someone explain the maths to me here, or am I reading the example out of context - I'm confused anyway.


"Permanent TSB announced a new product in recent weeks offering 1.25% on lump sums of €5,000 and higher for a period of 5 years.
That would generate a return over that period of around €1,130, which is quite a decent yield in the context of the current deposit rate environment."


Rates rising - why am I not making money on my savings?

For years, interest rates have been at rock bottom creating a relatively favourable environment for borrowing. Now that rates are rising, savers could have reasonably expected to finally start making a return on their deposits. But it has yet to show any signs of materialising.
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"...quite a decent yield" is understatement of the year!

Someone got their sums wrong or else it's a misprint. I'd estimate €17,500 over 5 years would give you approx that return.
 
Looks completely incorrect.
€5k @ 1.25% compounded annually for 5 years yields a return of €320 gross or €213 after DIRT.
 
Yes, had thought a couple of hundred at best. I was trying to see if they had referred to higher deposit examples earlier, which he did I think, but can't align it to this paragraph.
 
NoRegretsCoyote said:
Just more proof that most journalists and editors are innumerate.
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No. Just that there is a typo in an article published/updated on Sunday which was not proof-read as carefully as it should have been.

I suspect that they meant to say "on a sum of..." and this got edited out.

Brendan
 
NoRegretsCoyote said:
Just more proof that most journalists and editors are innumerate.
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When you look at the "mortgage advice" some of them provide, your statement is sadly very correct.

When the Irish times allowed comments, I pointed out glaringly poor advice by one of their reporters on almost every mortgage query.
 
Bonkers have corrected their error and now have it as €320.41

RTE have also edited their article;

 
Good, I had emailed him yesterday, perhaps that alerted him, and he ran off to Bonkers to ask them what they were at
 
ClubMan said:
Looks completely incorrect.
€5k @ 1.25% compounded annually for 5 years yields a return of €320 gross or €213 after DIRT.
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Lisboa said:
Bonkers have corrected their error and now have it as €320.41

RTE have also edited their article;
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night school might help hopefully and maybe aib and bank of ireland will increase the deposit rates as competion
podgerodge said:
Good, I had emailed him yesterday, perhaps that alerted him, and he ran off to Bonkers to ask them what they were at
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Most financial "journalists" these days spend their time rehashing corporate press releases and might not have heard of Raisin. Also, I suspect some might be planning to apply for jobs at bank PR departments once their publication has gone bust and thus want to ingratiate themselves by not mentioning foreign competitors.
 
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tomdublin said:
might have not have heard of Raisin.
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Deposit rates are not important to most people. The differences are not that material. If someone asked me about deposit rates, I wouldn't have thought of Raisin.

I would say to check askaboutmoney to see what rates were available. But I would seriously question whether having large sums on deposit and fixed for 5 years was a good idea.

For this particular article, the journalist seems to have checked Bonkers and spoken to a few people. Maybe they didn't talk about Raisin to him? In any event, it is certainly not a rehash of a press release.

Brendan
 
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