Parents promise to pay teens £150 each for good exam results

21 Aug 2019

Millions of parents are encouraging their teens to do well in school exams by incentivising good results with cash or gifts, pledging £150 per child – the equivalent of £150m across the UK.

OneFamily appoints Miles Bingham as Distribution Director

23 Jul 2019

OneFamily has appointed Miles Bingham as Distribution Director.
In the new role Miles will oversee the distribution of OneFamily’s Lifetime Mortgages and Over 50s Life Cover through intermediaries, in addition to managing strategic partnerships.

Sharing the wealth: Average gift to family with a lifetime mortgage is up by nearly £25,000 compared to last year

08 Jul 2019

OneFamily data shows that homeowners using a lifetime mortgage to support their loved ones financially are releasing over £110,000, up a quarter (28%) compared to 2018, when it was just over £85,000. Loans taken out to gift money to family are now the largest of all.

Teenagers add £1.7 billion to UK economy each year

03 Jul 2019

Teenagers are adding £1.7 billion to the UK economy as they spend their earnings and pocket money.

This is according to the Teenage Finance Report from financial services providers OneFamily, which investigates teens’ attitudes towards money. The report reveals that the average teenager spends £54 a week, ranging from £13 at age 13 to £68 at age 19 – the equivalent of 60 per cent of their income. The remaining 40 per cent is mainly saved on a short-term basis to pay for more expensive items or holiday spending money.

OneFamily appoints Donna Johnson to strengthen adviser support

25 Jun 2019

OneFamily has appointed Donna Johnson as a Business Development Manager in its adviser sales team.

OneFamily bolsters lifetime mortgage support teams

17 Jun 2019

OneFamily has increased its lifetime mortgage support teams with two new underwriters and three mortgage processors.

Millions of pounds sitting in untouched government allocated child trust funds

14 May 2019

Millions of pounds are sitting in untouched child trust funds that were set up by the government on behalf of parents for children born as long as 17 years ago.

Great expectations: teens expect to earn £70k by age 30

13 Feb 2019

Today's teenagers expect to earn £70,000 on average by the time they turn 30 - nearly three times the actual average salary for 30-year olds , and earnt by just one in 20 adults in the country during their entire career .

Northern cities rated best places to live

09 Nov 2018

Sunderland, Aberdeen and Leeds have been rated the best places to live and work, according to OneFamily's new Liveability index.

The Liveability Index, created by financial services provider OneFamily, ranks Britain’s towns and cities with over 200,000 residents. The index is based on both the balance of income and costs of living in each place, as well as how residents feel about living there. The index takes into account the cost of living and working, satisfaction with work and commuting, and general happiness levels, as well as levels of concern on issues like job prospects, work-life balance, the local property market and crime.

OneFamily strengthens intermediary sales team with two key appointments

31 Jul 2018

OneFamily has appointed Chris Brown as a Strategic Account Manager and Laurie Diiorio as a Business Development Manager in its intermediary sales team.

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