Places to Look for Help

Good sources of information include:

• Independent financial advisers.
• The Internet.
• Product providers.
• The personal finance pages of newspapers.
• Consumer magazines (often available in public libraries).
• Text television ( BBC2 Ceefax and C4 Teletext).

Make sure to base your final decisions on current information. Remember that such information may be from a non-objective, hence unreliable source, so verify your data against other independent sources. The term “award winning” may attributed to products in their marketing without any basis for claim.

Know which factors are important for you to compare between products. This really depends on which particular kind of products you’re choosing from. A good, up-to-date and independent source of comparative data is the Financial Services Authority's Comparative Tables.

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