Insuring against summer sporting disasters

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Mar 112022
 

Sporting fever has beset the country. With the dates of the World Cup, Wimbledon, the Formula One Grand Prix season, and the Cricket Open coinciding, it seems that this summer has become a boom time for sports fans.

The mass of high profile sporting events occurring all at the same time has meant that this summer more Brits appear to be taking to the streets and gardens to try out their skills. It is estimated that this year there will be £4.65 billion spent by Brits this year on sports and fitness. According to figures from Barclays Insurance, the average person is liable to spend about £206 this year.

While this is good news for gyms and sporting good suppliers, insurance companies are warning that many may end up suffering from unwanted repercussions, with record numbers of sporting injuries and broken windows expected.

Vicky Emmott of Halifax Home Insurance said, “It’s great that young and old alike are inspired by their sporting heroes but it might be safer to take ball games to the local park. Homeowners should definitely make sure they are covered for such events.”

Mark Till, Marketing Director for Barclays Life Insurance, warns, “Many of us spend most of our sporting life sat on the couch watching sport on the TV, but at this time of the year we dip in our pockets to buy new equipment, join clubs and then expect to see a brilliant return for our investment. However, broken equipment and pulled muscles are more often the outcome.”

It has long been recognized that sports participation traditionally surges every year during the summer months as sporting participants are inspired by the major televised sports events. There are however also unfortunate corresponding increases in the number of injuries which occur as a result of sporting activities. While most life or health insurance policies will payout as a result of a sports injury, and household insurance policies usually provide some level of cover for theft or accidental damage to sports equipment, it is worthwhile checking to ensure such activities are included, as frequently, potentially hazardous sports are excluded, and even seemingly safe pastimes like golf can often be excluded from many travel insurance packages.

Whether existing insurance policy holders are looking to take part in sports this summer, or simply watch others on television, it could still be worthwhile checking to see if there is now a better policy out there. With many changes being made within the insurance industry in recent years, as some of the major players started competing on price which has lead to premiums reductions in many insurance products, and with the growth of life insurance comparison services like Moneynet, it has never been it easier for consumers to quickly check the entire market and find these cheaper deals.

Mark Till said, “It might not stop a tennis racket getting broken in a McEnroe moment or a Rooneyesque broken metatarsal, but it will cover you for the outcome.”

Vicky Emmott stated that Halifax expected, “World Cup fever combined with die-hard Wimbledon and cricket fans could lead to our highest level of claims ever for the summer months.”



Disclaimer:

All information contained in this article, is for general information purposes only and should not be construed as advice under the Financial Services Act 1986.
You are strongly advised to take appropriate professional and legal advice before entering into any binding contracts.

Mortgage boom or bust in the UK

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Mar 102022
 

Recent talk within the housing market of a possible slow down, marking an end to the mini boom which has been gradually pushing house prices up across the country, seem to have been premature. The latest figures from the British Bankers’ Association (BAA) indicate that mortgage lending for May has just received its biggest boost for more than two years.

David Dooks, BBA director of statistics, said, “May’s rise in net mortgage lending, the largest monthly increase since the rise of £6bn in April two years ago, shows the mortgage market to be very much alive at a time when annual house price growth is strengthening. Overall unsecured lending rose more than the recent monthly average, but a notable aspect within this was a second large net fall in credit card borrowing in the last three months. This contrast between secured and card borrowing reflects customer sentiment.”

The upturn in mortgage lending indicated by the BAA concurs with other recent surveys from the UK’s biggest mortgage lender, the Halifax, which shows house prices increasing again following a period of stagnation.

Howard Archer, from Global Insight economic consultancy, announced that the robust levels of, “Mortgage lending and approvals in May indicate that reports of the death of the ‘mini-boom’ in the housing market are premature.” He also suggested that, “House prices will see further strength in the near term at least, after showing recent tentative signs of coming off the boil.”

This is good news for the main mortgage providers, however research from Direct Line Mortgages indicates that it is not only standard mortgage companies that are set to reap the rewards from this increase in house buying. The online mortgage market was singled out by Direct Line for a huge upturn in popularity; with nearly twice as many people than previous surveyed stating that they would apply for a mortgage online if they knew they were getting the cheapest deal available.

“We believe that the online mortgage market is ready for strong growth in a similar way to the increase in recent times of grocery, music and book shopping online,” said David Dyer, commercial director for Direct Line Mortgages.

“Many people realise that the best way to achieve value for money is to go online, as they do currently when taking out a personal loan. That same philosophy will increasingly apply to buying your mortgage,” he added.

Although people looking for a mortgage appear to value direct personal contact in the initial stages of the mortgage process, Direct Line see consumers’ beginning to make the switch towards internet providers. Following the preliminary advice, consumers are starting to do their own research on the best deals online, through mortgage comparison sites like Moneynet, rather than simply accepting the deals available through the highstreet channels. Large banks such as Barclays and the major mortgage companies which maintain online facilities, along with ultra competitive smaller online mortgage providers are liable to be the biggest winners from the shifting attitudes.

Analysts are however doubtful whether house prices can continually sustain these patterns of strong increases for any extended periods. The affordability of property purchasing has, for many prospective buyers, already been affected adversely by the long term increases in house price inflation which has again reverted to above average earning growth levels. Many industry forecasters are again pointing towards the concerns expressed by housebuyers, especially first time buyers, as evidence of an expected rise in UK interest rates by the year-end.



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All information contained in this article, is for general information purposes only and should not be construed as advice under the Financial Services Act 1986.
You are strongly advised to take appropriate professional and legal advice before entering into any binding contracts.

How to get cheap airlines tickets?

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Mar 092022
 

No wonder that anyone if asked the way they would love to travel and their answer would be air travel. Traveling through air could be fabulous if you have some prior information and if you plan out everything in advance. To get an affordable air travel you should know where to look and in which airline you should book your ticket. Here are few tips that will help you out in finding cheap airline tickets fully legitimately.


The best way is to go last minute airline ticket websites and check what is available. The airlines should sell tickets to their lights to offset the cost of the flights since no matter how many or how few people are on the flight it must run and they must spend the money. As the flight gets closer the airline shall lower down the price of their airlines tickets to get the plane fill up. They know that they cannot get the full price so that they keep lowering it a bit everyday until the next take off. The closer to the flight that you are willing to book, the cheaper you will get the airline ticket for it. The last minute airlines ticket websites communicate with the airline and get the information about how they will go.


Southwest airlines have its official website that gives you detailed information about the available bookings and discounted rates according to the time and place. You are going to be pleased if you try out last minute ticket. You don’t even have to loose anything but you can loose some great airline deals if you don’t try it. This way you can have a comfortable air travel at least prices that you will wish to try again and again.


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Failing To Succeed With Opt-in Email Marketing

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Mar 082022
 

Interesting title, isn’t it. But failing in order to succeed may not seem logical to you, but it’s true, just keep reading.

My Passion and why it’s my passion:
You need a list to start making money on the internet.

No list = No Mo.ney

BLUNT TRUTH TIME: The LIST is EVERYTHING… it’s not just a “part” of you success, it IS your success. Without a list it will be very difficult to make any money online. Learn how to generate a non-stop income using your list… I can help…we are just beginning to scratch the surface!

There are some people who do make money online without a list(very, very few), I am not saying that it’s impossible to make money online without a list. What I am saying is that having your own list is the most RELIABLE, SECURE and POTENTIALLY PROFITABLE way to make mo.ney online.

MY PROFILE
My business life experience covers the gamut when it comes to Marketing, from Sales Coordination, Professional Commercial Radio Broadcasting to Counseling others.

But nothing could have prepared me for the rubbish and false promises I found being sold on the Internet. It was mind blowing!

After wasting thousands of dollars and months of work on so called value packed deals and just plain failing, I was left with two choices:

Keep on whining about it,

or

DO something about it.

Don’t get me wrong, there were some rare gems amongst the crapola, just not enough that gave value for the money.

Let me ask you, was it too much to ask people/marketers to give exactly what they promised in a sales page? That didn’t seem too much to expect to me and I’m sure to you as well.

But “Finally” I got my hands on some real quality Information from different sources concerning email opt-in marketing and things started turning around in 2004.

So I’m on the internet giving advice to newbies and even some Old Pros who are frustrated. Basically because I’ve been there, and done that. I’ve been in the trenches, would not accept failure and survived professionally and most importantly…financially.

THE MOST IMPORTANT CREDO FOR AN INTERNET MARKETER
Don’t Fear Failure, embrace it and then defeat it through education.

As Yanik Silver, http://tinyurl.com/9y9fy, says “Fail Quickly”.

Failure is part of the Process of Learning, On the Internet and in Real Life. Could you run before you could walk? Of course Not. You had to fall and get up, re-adjust and then try again until walking became second nature to you. You didn’t fear the process, stubborn little tyke that you were, YOU JUST WANTED TO WALK FOR GOD’S SAKE lol!!!.

What changed you? What destroyed that innate stubbornness you once had. Your desire to succeed was not established by conditioning or learning, it was just there and it was active. What happened? School, other children, Parents, your parent’s friends, your teachers or just life and it’s bewilderments. Did you let these outside influences handicap your burning desire to succeed, with an overwhelming fear of failure?

Stop sabotaging your success!

Do you want that Same Desire and Determination … Do you want to Succeed? Then Don’t fear failure, Learn From It, be that Stubborn little kid you once were and you will succeed.

Every Successful individual has failed in their life, just read the Bios of the Rich and Famous. You cannot succeed without first some failing attempts. So get it out of the way, kick it in the Rear and move on. That’s the process, understand it, welcome it and most importantly, Defeat it through Knowledge.

And as stated…Don’t Fear Failure…Embrace It…And Then Defeat It through an on-going Education. Absorb everything that will add to your future success and always believe…Failure is Not an Option … and it won’t be.

John C Vincent

Key Concepts of Exhibitions

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Mar 072022
 

An exhibition may be broadly defined as a trade fair where various companies can showcase and demonstrate their newly launched and existing products in order to highlight their positive features to prospective customers. In an age where how well a product is marketed and campaigned about largely determines its commercial success, exhibitions are some of the major ways manufacturers and dealers can extensively market about their newly launched products. Unlike retail shops where products can be demonstrated only to a limited number of customers and prospective clients, since in an exhibition people from different regions all around a center come to view the products the number of visitors checking a company’s products is significantly higher.

In today’s corporate world of cut-throat competition, having a cutting edge over competitors within the same field is one of the most important tasks for a company to achieve. In an exhibition since numerous companies come together in order to market their products, designing and presenting resources and products in a unique, individual way in order to attract the attention of prospective clients is one of the major jobs before a company. Apart from manufacturing products marked with their own unique selling points (USP), they have to be presented at a trade fair in a manner most likely to catch the consumer’s eyes. For this reason, right from the basic structure of their exhibition stands to the smallest details of the interiors a company has to establish its stand in a unique way. While some companies assign their own creative departments to look into these designing matters, others often hire professional architects and interior designers for setting up their exhibition stands.

Interior designers dealing with setting up of exhibition stands usually operate in a series of successive steps. Once the basic design of an exhibition stand is decided upon, the infrastructure is set up in such a way that basic features like electric and water lines as well as safety measures and emergency exits are securely implemented. Workers then construct the outer structure out of the desired materials. Keeping the presentation factor in mind features like layout, shape, form and overall appearance are given primary importance while designing and setting up an exhibition stand. In order to attract the potential clientele some companies ask their architects and interior designers to implement various graphics and audio-visual features in their exhibition stands, others use various lighting schemes in order to create the desired atmosphere and interior environment. Companies may also opt for making proper arrangements for their customers to sit and relax and also arrange for various hot and cold beverages to be offered to their visiting clientele.

In order to make construction and other arrangement-making processes an easier job, many companies today like to buy ready-made exhibition set-up schemes directly from service providers. From carpets and walls to lightings and power points most of these packages include a large number of features. Although these packages make construction and set up of exhibition stands an overall easier job, since they are available ready-made at the market they can be accessed by a large number of companies at the same time. This not only loses the individual touch from a company’s exhibition stand get-up but also by making it no different from numerous others around, it loses the power of attracting prospective customers.

With the current trends where individuality matters most and caters best, the best bet for a company wanting to make its mark would be to employ professional designers for designing the structure and get-up of its exhibition stand. Most exhibition contractors, today, operate via small teams of interior designers who, once a project is explained to them, step by step implement all the details until the exact requirement is met. A company should first analyze its own unique motives and goals and based on these fundamental factors should design a plan with the help of exhibition contractors and designers. The basic layout of the whole project should be designed in such a way that the company’s individual goals are well met and simultaneously products are presented in a way best suiting the customers’ requirements. Whereas, some companies opt for building double-storey stand structures for better overall view, others prefer to keep theirs single storey.

As in other business dealings, in designing, structuring and carrying out an exhibition also the company should focus on simultaneously satisfying their customers and maximizing their financial profits and goodwill. Keeping all these factors in mind, deals should be settled with exhibition contractors for designing a company’s exhibition stands.

Once the specific requirements of a company are given, most exhibition contractors today, implement their programs by means of a large number of equipments and facilities. From designing the primary layout drawings and digitally preparing 3D CAD visualizations in full colors to detailing all the lighting, graphics and finishing touches exhibition contractors go about implementing their works in a series of meticulous steps. From constructing stands out of quality materials licensed by local regulations to installing fully functioning electric, telephone, internet, fax, water and waste lines, all necessary works are performed by exhibition contractors by their extremely efficient installation teams.

Should Poland Be Looking Forward To More Chevrolets?

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Mar 052022
 


There have been reports of General Motors planning on building Chevrolet vehicles and cars in Poland. In fact, this has been acceded when a spokesperson from the company said that, indeed, the car manufacturer is already in advanced talks with UkrAvto, a Ukranian car manufacturer. They would be having a joint venture so as to produce Chevrolet vehicles in the mentioned country.


This spokesperson continued by stating, “We are talking to them and are making good progress in the talks.” He even stressed that General Motors would be creating Chevrolet vehicles in Poland which would be new entrants to various levels in Europe.


Primarily, this would be a good move for General Motors. After all, they are spending much on the transportation of their Chevrolet vehicles. At present, all Chevrolet vehicles that are for the European market are still being imported from South Korea. With production held in Poland, everything would be much easier for the car manufacturer.


Speculations are circulating that one of the vehicles that would be built in Poland for the European car market would include the Chevrolet Aveo, which is the brand’s entrant to the small car category. There are even predictions of being able to create around 25,000 units of this small car but the company is even targeting towards a much greater number.


However, all these plans on the manufacture of Chevrolet vehicles in Poland are becoming reality despite the fact that General Motors in Europe is facing problems with its assembly plant which is located in Portugal. They are spending much on that assembly plant in the mentioned area and the company is even planning on shutting down that plant by October this year. The only way that they could keep the plant up and running would be if both the government of that country and its workers would be able to cut down the costs of manufacturing.


Meanwhile, for the greatest deals on Chevy body parts and Chevy truck parts, owners and aficionados could run to Auto Parts Information. This store also has an excellently-trained customer service staff to assist you in your needs.

Dreams can be Secured with Unsecured Tenant Loans

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Mar 042022
 

Tenants, Students, PGs and all such people have one thing in common when we talk about applying for a loan. Can you guess what??? Yes the similarity is that none of them have any property of their own to offer as collateral. So they will be in trouble when the need for money arises. But as all problems have solution, here also there is a solution called unsecured tenant loan.

Why one should go for an unsecured tenant loan?

Unsecured tenant loans are easily available in the market. These loans come with large number of benefits which makes them distinct among other standard forms of loans. These benefits are:

•Easy and apt way of getting finance from outside resource.

•Tenants and home owners can easily apply.

•Freedom for fear of loosing your asset as there is no collateral involved

•Loan available for people with bad credit also (like defaults, arrears, CCJ’s and IVA’s, bankrupts etc) depending upon the lender.

•Faster approvals as valuation of collateral is not their.

•Better interest rates are available with increasing competition among loan lenders in the market.

How can I use the loan amount?

An Unsecured tenant loan can be used for any of the borrower personal needs. Most of the lenders don’t even ask for the purpose for which you are applying for the loan. You can use the amount for consolidation of debts, business financing, wedding expenses, children’s education etc.

How much can I get as a loan amount?

Amounts ranging from ₤1000 to ₤25000 can easily be applied under an unsecured tenant loans. But you are recommended to only apply amounts which you can repay afterwards or you will be in deep trouble afterwards. So determine your ability to repay before applying. However you can also apply for larger amounts if circumstances allow it.

Where can I get the best unsecured tenant loan?

There are lot many lenders in the market with such attractive packages which you can’t resist. Finding such genuine deals in the market may be a tougher job for you. So to save your time and energy you can go for online option to search and apply. Most of the reputed lenders have their own website. You have to just log on to their websites to find out the package which suits you the best in terms of interest rate and terms of repayment. For your help there are several comparison tools, loan calculators, Repayment calculators etc which will guide you to your way of getting financed.
Unsecured tenants loan can cover up the gap between you and your desires all you needs is to do little bit of hard work in form of research for a good lender and then apply for such loan.

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