A cheap Christmas turkey

Tim Bennett rounds up this week’s personal finance news, including where to buy your Christmas roast, why you should still beware trailing commissions, and tax advice for 'accidental' landlords.

If you're looking for a cheap turkey this Christmas, head to Morrisons, says Thisismoney.co.uk. In the site's annual Christmas turkey poll, the supermarket came in lowest with a price of £9 for a frozen bird (that's £2.80 per kilo). Morrisons even beat discount supermarkets Lidl and Aldi to the top spot they charge 99p more. However, if you want a fresh bird, try Aldi, where a medium-sized one comes in at £19.99.

If you think that trail commissions an annual commission paid by financial product providers (such as fund groups) to financial advisers for up to 20 years after a product is first sold will be banned from January, you need to think again, says Holly Thomas in The Daily Telegraph.

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Tim graduated with a history degree from Cambridge University in 1989 and, after a year of travelling, joined the financial services firm Ernst and Young in 1990, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1994.

He then moved into financial markets training, designing and running a variety of courses at graduate level and beyond for a range of organisations including the Securities and Investment Institute and UBS. He joined MoneyWeek in 2007.