Fairer Finance

11/01/2023

Today we've launched a new group for people who have lost out because they bought a One Life funeral plan. One Life recently went bust leaving customers facing a likely loss of most or all of the money they paid into their plan. Please share this post with your network - and encourage anyone who bought a One Life plan to join our group: One Life Funeral Plan victims

16/03/2021

Fairer Finance is raising money to fund the next stage of our growth. You can read more about our plans and invest via our Crowdcube page at www.crowdcube.com/fairerfinance

We'd love you to join us on our journey.

Remember that investments of this nature carry a risk to your capital. Please invest aware.

Fairer Finance is on a mission to become the UK's most trusted provider of consumer financial services ratings. After their best ever year in 2020, they're poised to expand into more sectors, accelerate growth and help even more consumers get a better deal.

24/02/2021

Fairer Finance is seven years old this year, and I’m incredibly proud of everything we’ve achieved in our first few years. It started out with just me, and today we have a passionate and committed team of 12!

Now we’re ready for the next phase, and are embarking on a crowdfunding campaign, to raise money to expand into more sectors.

You can read more about our crowdfunding campaign - and watch our pitch video - on our website at https://www.fairerfinance.com/we-are-crowdfunding. You can also pre-register to receive exclusive access to invest once the Fairer Finance campaign is launched.

You can invest from as little as £12 and we’d love you to join us on our journey. Remember of course, that investments of this nature carry risks to your capital. Please Invest Aware.

Together we can create a fairer financial services market.

01/02/2021

It's always important to be careful of where you get your financial advice. While viral videos on TikTok and other sites can seem to be a fun way to learn about finance, you run a huge risk of falling for myths and scams.

See the top ten financial myths here: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22229551/tiktok-personal-finance-day-trading-tesla-scam?fbclid=IwAR33H_IdkupKZspMs2kxiNbGoztimlv992B6srf2vuaF1C-jJeCf9c98FM0

On our website we have our own Fairer Finance guides, which will help you get started in your financial journey. These are not supposed to be official financial advice, but can point you to where you can get professional and accredited advice. https://www.fairerfinance.com/guides

TikTok is full of dubious personal finance myths. Here are 10 of them, and why you should be wary.

15/01/2021

Looking for new Home Insurance? Our 2021 product ratings can help you make the best choice.

Here are our 5-star winners
⭐ M&S Bank
⭐ Age UK
⭐ Ecclesiastical
⭐ SAGIC
⭐ TSB
⭐ Royal Bank of Scotland
⭐ NatWest

You can see all the ratings on our website here: https://www.fairerfinance.com/ratings/product-ratings/home-insurance

27/10/2020

At the beginning of this month we launched our Autumn Customer Experience Ratings, and today we're happy to tell you the winners!

💴 Savings Accounts: Triodos Bank UK (also the Most Trusted and Most Recommended provider with the Happiest Customers)

🏠 Home Insurance: Ecclesiastical (also the Most Trusted and Most Recommended provider)

🚪 Mortgages: Coventry Building Society (6th time in a row winner!)

🐶 Pet Insurance: Bought By Many (also has the Happiest Customers and Most Transparent customer communications!)

🚗 Car Insurance: Civil Service Insurance Society (Won 1st or 2nd place in every wave of ratings since we started out in 2015)

🏧 Bank Accounts: The Cumberland (Won 1st place five times in a row!)

💳 Credit Cards: first direct (Also the Most Trusted and has the best Digital Experience)

💰 Personal Loans: first direct (The only brand to get 1st place in two product areas)

💸 Investing and Pensions: Aviva (Also the Most Recommended investing brand)

✈️ Travel Insurance: LV (Also won the Most Transparent ribbon for clear customer communications)

You can find the full leaderboard on our website: https://www.fairerfinance.com/ratings/customer-experience-ratings

09/10/2020

🏆 Congratulations to the Fairer Finance Gold Ribbon winners in our Autumn 2020 Customer Experience Ratings!

Our unique customer experience reviews are designed to help customers find a bank, building society or insurer that offers good service, not just a good rate or price.

Providers awarded a Fairer Finance Gold Ribbon perform the best in our Customer Experience Ratings. They often have some of the happiest and most trusting customers, and handle complaints well. They also tend to be the most transparent – so they explain the key features of their products well, and have clear and simple documents.

The new ratings are now available on our website and also appear in partnership with The Times on the Money Mentor personal finance site: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/money-mentor/

Providers can find out more about how they have been rated with a free Insight Portal account. Contact us for details at [email protected]

08/10/2020

IN THE NEWS: Widow takes 5 months to get payout from private medical insurer
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-lost-my-husband-to-coronavirus-and-my-insurer-wont-pay-up-t6v9qcg7t

25/09/2020

Mortgages are taking longer than ever to be approved, and is being blamed on a combination of home working and a rise in applications thanks to the stamp duty holiday.

23/09/2020

Last week our MD James Daley took part in a powerful film by Ipsos MORI detailing the difficulty that the outbreak for women's finance. Watch here

Ipsos' Ethnography Centre of Excellence presents a powerful film featuring testimony about COVID-19 and its effect on British women’s finances, in particular...

21/09/2020

The results are in and our new wave of Autumn customer experience ratings will soon be released!

Our unique Transparency assessments contribute to 25% of the overall rating. We analyse provider's websites to check if the key information is made clear – and how clearly explained and signposted this information is.

With documents and terms & conditions, we assess the clarity of the document’s design and language. This is all to identify, like in the title of the ratings, how good the experience is for the customer.

Take a look at our ranking tables to see which brands currently perform best for customer transparency: https://www.fairerfinance.com/ratings/customer-experience-ratings