The Endowment Diary

The Endowment Diary

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The Endowment Mis-selling Debacle - one of the UK's worst financial scandals

Monday, April 23, 2007

Bridging Loans

As thousands of underfunded endowment policies start coming to the end of their lives, the demand for bridging loans is expected to rise; as people struggle to make up the shortfall on their under performing endowment policies.

Bridging loans are a very expensive way of borrowing, with monthly rates of between 1.5% to 2% (akin to credit cards).

People should exercise due care when thinking of taking out one of these expensive products.