There are plenty of ways to get information online. We’ve got direct contact to other people’s opinion through forums, blogs, twitter, email spam (!). A lot of it is thrust at us because eyeballs still mean money in the online world. So it seems, there is a huge volume of insurance blogs out there which purely exist to take paid for content (for search engine or advertising motives) and do not actually provide anything of use to someone looking for a “proper” insurance blog.
So to help those people out, here’s a list of our top 10 insurance and personal finance blogs (besides our own obviously) which are spam free and regularly updated with useful, as well as tongue in cheek, posts:
- Love Money
- Money Magpie
- Miss Thrifty
- Money Hospital
- Fru Gal (Totally Money)
- Money Central (Times Online)
- Money Blog (The Guardian)
- Fluxposure (Adrian Flux)
- Neville’s Financial Blog
- Riskheads (insurance technology focused blog)
So there you have it, a nice conformist’s list of the top 10 UK insurance and personal finance blogs for your enjoyment.
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Great list of blogs, I’m totally with you on the list but not so much on the sequence. I think the Money Central should be on #1 then Money Magpie and then Love Money.
Oh, bless you! As a regular Insiders’ View reader, I jumped in my seat just now when I checked in and saw a link to Miss Thrifty staring back at me! Thanks very much.
@Miss Thrifty – no problem – a reward for your consistently thrifty blogging. Haven’t seen you comment before on IV before – no need to be so shy in the future ;o)
Thanks so much for including my blog on your list – you have made my morning! Glad you enjoy reading along
Hi thanks so much for including Moneymagpie in the list. My friend Annie at Cashquestions pointed it out to me. It has made my day!
@Ernest – Ah, but maybe I have commented under a different name…
@Miss Thrifty – I guess is would be hypocritical for myself and George to denounce such behaviour!
@Jasmine, @FruGal – no problem. You’re all consistently good bloggers. I’m sure you get rewarded for what you publish but the content stands up on its own. Keep up the good work.
A great list, I wasn’t aware of most of these especially riskheads.org which looks like a good insurance focused blog.
Thanks.
Thanks for the mention chaps!
Would have spotted this sooner, but we have been busy (and still are!) migrating the blog from Blogger to WordPress.
Keep up the good work.
David
On behalf of RiskHeads.org I’d like to say a big thank you for our mention in the Top 10 Insurance Blogs. THANKS guys.
Since our recent launch we’ve been pleased by the massive feedback we’ve been getting from readers and to see RiskHeads up here already with the likes of Times Online and The Guardian gives us all a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
Well done Adam (Riskheads.org) I have been enjoying some good old fashioned discussion on there that seems to be sadly lacking elsewhere . Glad to have found my way to Insiders View too.
Would welcome some feedback on my own blog attempts…I try not to be too dull!
David
@David *G* Wilson
What an excellent name!
Dave: Good point well made!
Cheers
DGW
What’s that Rodney?!
Pretty poor list if you ask me!
At least ALL the Search Engine algorithms are working for the term!
Why are all these blog PR3 or less? Although most of them especially MoneyCentral are great blogs. Looks like google is not rewarding insurance blogs fairly. Guess Larry Page’s insurance is in millions
@Insurance Blogger – we would tend not to promote a blog just because it appears highest in Google and sells links in their content to lots of other poor content quality “blogs”. Instead we give credit to those who write content that actually helps consumers. Each of the blogs in that top 10 list will profit from their blog (granted) but they write good content for the person on the street and not for the community of bloggers looking to profit from them.
@Alex – it probably has a lot to do with those blogs not having particular strong SEO skills and/or the fact that they’re competing in an extremely competitive sector. But they all write good, frequent and topical content. Imagine what they could do if they had the SEO skills and the time required to go into the detail as well!!
Great list has saved me a lot of time searching out insurance blogs available. Keep up the good work.
Hi
Great list & some interesting insurance blogs. Thanks
That’s great these all blogs are very helpful including your blog. I hope it will be best blog of 2011
The Insurance Industry are nothing but ‘dream pedlers’, they promise in the event of catastrophe, they will save you from the worst effects, in reality when you present them with a claim, they dissapear into the distance like a tomcat with scalded nuts!
nice blog..
it will very helpful for those person who find the information about insurance companies and insurance policies..
but i think it’s too short, you should increase your list.
Take it from me, all the insurance companies I have had the misfortune to come across, bar one …have been crooks!
As a result neither I nor many of my friends, colleagues and relations, no longer take out insurance that is not obligatory.
The insurance industry like the banks , needs serious investigation.
David: consider yourself fortunate that you found one…you may just have got lucky with the circumstances, timing, amount or lack of insurance staff knowledge!
“Crooks” may be a bit strong. On reflection, maybe not but investigation at the appropriate level would be something akin to inviting investigators to punch themselves in the face. We have already seen that the banks are “fire proof” and Rating Agencies nothing more than a market tool.
The insurance industry has much to be afraid of but, typically, fail to appreciate the nature of size of the risk, despite numerous warnings. Take your pick from any of the following articles and links:
“Both insurers and insurance intermediaries need to fundamentally rethink how risk is assessed” http://wp.me/p16h8c-Ho
Transparency – Trust – Trends – TRANSFORMATION http://wp.me/p16h8c-20
Savvy Buyers won’t be bullied or buy the BS! http://wp.me/p16h8c-C8
There is plenty more where that came from but lack of leadership and moral compass(es) may mean me and plenty of others are “pissing in the wind”!?
David
David, thank you for your informed comments, however if you were aware of our case I think you would agree “Crooks” is probably too mild a descriptioin of our Underwriters.
Fraudsters, Con- Artists, Parasites would probably be more appropriate, for many years I carried a donor card, stating any part of my body in the event of my demise could be given to anyone of any creed, colour or nationality, the exception being Insurance Underwriters.
Let it all out David!
Isn’t it ironic that insurers SHOULD promote loss prevention but their primary focus (and that of their main distribution channel) is to sell risk protection because it pays better, especially if you are able to rely upon an excessively complex range of “get out clauses” to compensate for their failure to adequately ascertain or understand the risk profile of their potential victims!?
Cheers,
David
David, you have it in a nutshell, some of the “Get out” clauses are the finacial equivalent of “Catch 22″.
The Non Disclosure clause for instance is unbeatable, we were accused of “Moral Turpitude” can anyone explain that to me?
I thank you for this very interesting discussion, Best regards, David Norris.
Thanks, great list, I have most of them already but not all so mucho gracias!