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    UK Based folks - Trading platform (best?)

    I use Freetrade to build up my ISA contribution during the year then 'bed and ISA' using iWeb and more recently X-O. This April I will be using Trading 212 or maybe Vanguard then out of the market for 31 days with Freetrade to 'reset' base for CGT. For Euro trades I use Fineco. SIPPS are...
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    Suggestions for travel from Barcelona

    Toledo is lovely but probably not in high summer! As an alternative may I suggest you consider Alcalá de Henares (22km from Madrid). We spent a couple of days there last September staying at the Parador de Turismo (worth going half board). The centre is a UNESCO World Heritage site but I will...
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    Pensions for ex-pat UK in US

    Thank you everyone for your responses. I will pass them onto my friend & colleague and hopefully he will be able to support his daughter.
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    Pensions for ex-pat UK in US

    I am in the UK and a close friend’s daughter is CTO for a small (less than 15 staff members) company in the southern US. She came to the US 6 years ago as a post-doc and then progressed to the start-up. She is about 30. Yesterday my friend asked me about what I knew about pensions saving in...
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    Atlantic Magazine article on US pensioner poverty

    Thanks REWahoo I hadn't searched far enough back. Looking at the response in that original thread the response on the UK forum was very similar. So probably nothing further to add!
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    Atlantic Magazine article on US pensioner poverty

    I don’t think this article from the Atlantic Magazine on US pensioner poverty has been posted yet There has been some comment on it in a UK forum. Mainly about how could a society as rich as the USA permit this to happen and secondly how can we avoid it happening in the UK.
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    Prepaid SIM for Europe

    I am a Brit so I just thought I would just add some suggestions here. The EU has done away with 'roaming' costs across the EU see this BBC report. Interoperability across EU countries seems to be almost a solved problem . This rate cap is working very effectively as I often use my mobile in...
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