Test Your Personal Finance Knowledge

Last Saturday’s Telegraph newspaper included a personal finance quiz so that you could test your knowledge of some common finance issues. I was a little bit worried that I’d fail miserably, but thankfully I got 19/20, tripping up on question 13, about the amount of capital gains tax you are allowed each year (tax is […]

Should We Trust Price Comparison Websites?

UKMoneyPot notes that Direct Line has recently started an advertising campaign suggesting that consumers should not trust price comparison sites (such as moneysupermarket.com, confused.com etc) and should instead get quotes directly from themselves. The studies Direct Line conducted highlighted some interesting figures. Firstly, 35% of people believe comparison sites searched the whole of the market. […]