Chancellor announces plans for NS&I in 2014 Budget
The government has announced plans for National Savings and Investments (NS&I) to help support savers.
NS&I awards Premium Bonds jackpot winner advisory service contract to Matrix Capital
NS&I today announced that Matrix Capital has been awarded the contract to provide financial advisory services to winners of the monthly Premium Bonds £1 million jackpot prize.
NS&I provisional Q3 2013-14 financial results and 2014-15 Net Financing target
NS&I today published its provisional Q3 (October-December 2013) results for the financial year 2013-14. Net Financing for the quarter was £0.4 billion, bringing the year-to-date total to £2.9 billion.
New millionaire from Avon in March’s jackpot draw
March’s Premium Bonds millionaire
A male living in Avon
Bond number: 163EA927547
Winning Bond bought in December 2009
Total holdings £26,662
For the March 2014 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £51 million in value. There were 47,389,711,882 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. In Avon there are over 400,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £990 million.
The changing face of savings: 10 years of NS&I’s Quarterly Savings Survey
NS&I’s latest Quarterly Savings Survey shows how Britain’s savings behaviour has changed over the last decade. Britons are now saving 7.76% of their incomes each month, (£98).
New millionaire from Hertfordshire in February’s jackpot draw
For the February 2014 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £51 million in value. There were 47,100,896,572 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. In Hertfordshire there are over 400,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £1.2 billion.
New millionaire from Suffolk in January 2014 jackpot draw
In Suffolk there are over 300,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £755 million.
NS&I’s Agent Million travels over 2,500 miles in 2013 to deliver £1 million Premium Bonds prizes
NS&I’s Agent Million, who delivers the good news to the Premium Bonds £1 million jackpot winner each month, has travelled over 2,500 miles up and down the country in 2013, almost three times the distance from Land’s End to John O’ Groats!
NS&I reduces interest rate on Direct ISA - December 2013
NS&I today announced that it was reducing the interest rate on its Direct ISA by 0.25% to 1.50% tax-free/AER. This change will come into effect from 27 February 2014.
Revised NS&I Net Financing target for 2013-14
In today’s Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced that NS&I’s Net Financing target for 2013-14 is to be revised. NS&I’s original target for 2013-14 was £0 (in a range of £2 billion either side of this, from -£2 billion to £2 billion).