I’ll be keeping a close eye on www.tescocompare.com tomorrow (14th Sep) as it should be the day that Tesco starts to take on the likes of MoneySupermarket.com, by launching a financial comparison website. Tesco has launched its car insurance comparison service at www.tescocompare.com, which marks its first move into the financial comparison market. Although the […]
Author: Rob Lewis
Child Trust Fund Performance Figures
At the end of last month The Telegraph published a table of the performance of stocks and share Child Trust Funds. If you want to compare how your kids trust fund has performed, view the table. The table shows just how much difference your decision can make to the size of the fund – the […]
Good & Bad News From The Banks
There’s been mixed news from the banks today which makes for some interesting reading. Firstly, on the good side, if you’re a saver, savings rates have reached a massive 7% from some banks and building societies, with many having raised their interest rates on savings accounts in the last couple of weeks. As ever, for […]
Independent: Spread Bank Pressure
There’s an interesting article I really agree with at The Independent, calling for the recent consumer backlash against banks to spread to other companies within the financial services industry: The thrust of this consumer power into the financial services industry has so far been limited to bank accounts – the basics of running our daily […]
Student Finance: Insurance for Your Belongings
One thing that many students overlook in their haste to get setup in their student house or halls of residence is insurance for their belongings. With the amount of electrical items and gadgets that the average student will be taking with them on the increase, it is becoming more and more important to get adequate […]
Student Finance: Credit Cards
If there’s one financial product I’d suggested you try to avoid for as long as possible at university, it’s credit cards. Nothing can hurt your finances as much as a couple of grand sitting on your card steadily growing as the interest mounts up. Recent studies suggest that 43% of students have a credit card, […]
Money Links For 7th Sep 2007
Links to other interesting money articles on 7th Sep 2007.
Student Finance: Best Student Bank Accounts
Comparing student bank accounts isn’t that easy – but take a look at the MoneyFacts best buy table, and you’ll see that the top two accounts offered on their are the Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax student accounts. Both of these accounts offer 2% interest if you are in credit, but possibly more importantly, […]
Student Finance: New Series
As we’re approaching the start of the new academic year, I’m starting a series of posts looking at the thorny subject of student finance. Studies suggest that this year’s freshers will owe £21,000 on average by the time they graduate, so it’s becoming more and more important that students, and their parents, are thinking about […]
Don’t Fall For This New Telephone Scam
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has issued a warning about a telephone scam that is doing the rounds which involves fraudsters calling up claiming they’re from the OFT, saying that they can help the recipient claim back their bank charges. The callers ask for both personal and financial details, including bank information, and the […]