UK Financial Comparison Sites
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There are numerous sites that offer financial advice on investment,
mortgages, loans and savings.
UK Financial Comparison Sites (credit cards, loans,
mortgages and savings accounts etc.):
Kelkoo's credit card category (their loan category)
FSA.gov.uk's
Comparative tables
- the Financial Services Authority's comparisons cover
investments, savings, pensions and mortgages. Also offers advice
on (and plans to add comparisons for) banking, borrowing and insurance.
Moneynet.co.uk - comparisons and advice on loans, credits cards, mortgages and insurance.
iii.co.uk - Ample's finance portal.
Moneysupermarket.com - cash
ISAs, loan, credit card, insurance and current account comparisons.
Unravelit.com - comparisons of
loans, credit cards, insurance and
utility prices.
Find.co.uk - list of financial
websites.
Moneyfacts.co.uk -
comparisons of mortgages, loans, credit cards and savings.
Moneywise.co.uk - magazine
website listing mortgages, loans, credit cards, banking and savings as
well as articles from the magazine.
MoneyExtra.com
MoneyExpert.com - Provide
comparisons of financial products, including savings accounts,
mortgages, credit cards and loans.
Credit Card Reward Schemes
Kelkoo's credit card category,
including a list of cards
with cashback
Moneysupermarket has a credit card comparison section that allows you to search for cashback only cards.
- Offering 1% or more cashback:
- Egg.com's Money card gives you 1% back on your purchases.
- Morganstanley's
Platinum Mastercard offers 1% cashback, but only for the first
£2000 spent per year, then 0.5% but 2% for the first three months.
- American Expresses' Blue
Card offers 1% cashback, 2% for the first three months. However, Amex is accepted
less often than Visa or Mastercard, so it is less easy to use.
- Bankof Ireland's
Gold and Standard Moneyback Mastercards offers 0.5% cashback for the first
£3000 per year, then 1% cashback.
- Retailer rewards:
-
The GM card offers 3% of
spending as a discount on Vauxhall or Saab cars (conditions apply).
For those who pay off the entire amount due on your credit card every
month, an April 2003 Which? report highlighted those offering the most
valuable rewards. Their advice for prompt payers is to ignore freebies such as
free travel insurance and select those offering the most money back. A
steady 1% cashback is available from some merchants, more is available as
rewards from specific retailers.
Is it is easy to set
up a direct debit to automatically pay off the credit card each month?
Otherwise you'll be wasting time sending off cheques, logging on to
websites or phoning up
to pay off debts.
Moneysavingexpert.com
has a section offering advice on credit cards.
If you are being bugged by too many unsolicited telephone offers, you may
want to register with the telephone preference service to stop receiving
unsolicited calls: http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
. The Mail preference service http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/
allows you to reduce your unsolicited junk mail.
UK Utility Comparison Sites
Utility comparison sites are listed on the price
comparison sites page.
UK Mortgage Comparison Sites:
Kelkoo's mortgage category
Moneybrain.com
Charcolonline.co.uk
ftyourmoney.com
Mortgageroute.co.uk
Moneysupermarket.com
Moneysavingexpert.com
has advice on obtaining a mortgage - phone up fees-free broker London
and Country for mortgage advice (they only take commission from the
lender). Once they have found you a product you could buy the
product via Mortgagegenie.co.uk
or Moneybackmortgages.com
who will give you back a portion of their commission.
UK Insurance Comparison Sites:
Confused.com
Moneysupermarket.com
CompareTheMarket.com
GoCompare.com
Insure.co.uk
Screentrade.co.uk
1stquote.co.uk
Directline.com
- compare motor insurance prices.
Inspop.com
Unravelit.com
The AA
Virginmoney.com
- Comparisons of ISAs, mortgages, loans and insurance for registered users.
The Personal
possessions insurance category at dmoz.org (Google version).
Moneysavingexpert.com Insurance - advice on finding the cheapest insurance
Travel Insurance and Travel Currency
Travel insurance and travel currency have moved to their own page, travel.
UK Fund Comparison Sites (ISAs etc.)
Fidelity.co.uk
Virginmoney.com
iii.co.uk - Ample's financial site
Moneysupermarket.com - cash
ISAs
Funds.ft.com/funds/
- FT's fund comparison service
Morningstar.co.uk - industry
standard comparisons and star ratings of funds.
Fsa.gov.uk/tables/ -
Financial Standard's Authority's comparison tables of funds
UK Share Dealing (stockbroking) Sites:
Europeaninvestor.com - how
to chose a share site.
iii.co.uk - Ample's financial site
Investopolis.com -how to chose
a share site.
Ukinvest.co.uk - investment site.
Ishares.net
- Index fund site
Trustnet.com - Investment fund site
Comdirect.co.uk - share
dealing site
Idealing.com - share dealing
site
Selftrade.com/uk/ - share
dealing site
Hargreaveslansdown.co.uk
- discount broker
Chelseafs.co.uk - discount
broker
Funds-sp.com - Standard
and Poor's fund trading site
MandG.co.uk - M&G Investment
(large fund management company)
Legal and General - large fund management company
Norwich Union - large fund management company (also pensions and insurance)
Fidelity.co.uk -
Fidelity UK, a fund supermarket.
Aitc.co.uk - Association of
Investment Trust Companies (if you are considering investing in
investment trusts)
Ftadviser.com - Money Management
- Articles from the magazine Money Management. Offers a bi-yearly
update on the best pension providers (Oct and March).
Morningstar.co.uk
- information on fund
Financial Directories
Dmoz.org's UK
Financial Services category (Google's
version)
Ciao.co.uk's Finance
Services category (ouch, pop-ups)
Dooyoo.co.uk's banking
finance category (again, ouch, pop-ups), features user reviews of
specific products
SourcesSome financial links selected from the series of financial
articles in the FT: ft.com/lifeonthenet
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