Guides & Tools

Welcome to the AOL Money guides and tools area. From banking more safely online to finding a better mortgage, there should be help on most topics you are looking for.

Guides:
- Guide to current accounts - Safer online banking - Simple guide to switching banks	- How to make £100 from your bank - What is phishing? - Protect your PC from viruses

Tools:
- Find the right bank account	- Holiday currency rates
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Guides:
- Cardholder safety tips	- Guide to credit cards - Guide to shopping safely online

Tools:
- Find the right card and compare deals - What monthly repayment to make?	- How long until I pay off my credit card? - Credit card directory
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Guides:
- What's a credit report? - What to do if you're refused credit	- What is identity fraud? - How to avoid identity fraud - Understanding your credit score

Tools:

- Get a free credit report

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Guides:
- How to cut the cost of car insurance - Pet insurance: All you need to know - Home security and insurance tips	- Travel insurance: Get a better deal - Flights: Know your rights

Tools From Lloyds TSB:
- Car insurance quote - Home insurance quote	- Travel insurance quote - Pet insurance quote
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Guides:
- Guide to loans - Tips for avoiding debt - How to get out of debt	- Guide to consolidating debts - Guide to car finance options

Tools:
- Best loan rates - Compare personal loans with uSwitch	- Could consolidation save you money - How much can you afford to borrow?
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Guides:
- Lifetime mortgages - Remortgaging made easy - How to get a bigger mortgage - How to repay your mortgage	- Home reversion plans - How to help children on to the ladder - Hidden costs of switching - Affordable ways to buy a home - Free overseas property brochures

Tools:
- Search for and compare mortgages - Check house prices by postcode	- Directory of lenders from Find
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Guides:
- Setting a retirement target - How the Government tops up pensions - Will my employer provide a pension? - Why you should start saving now	- Are stakeholder pensions good? - Making the right choice at retirement - How much should I save? - Guide to SIPPs - Free saving for retirement brochures

Tools:
- How much will I retire on? - Find an IFA	- Directory of pension companies
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Guides:
- The guide to savings accounts - Saving for children - Premium Bond guide - Child Trust Funds: The facts - Guide to ISAs	- Your savings options - Transferring ISAs - Free ISA brochures - Free saving for children brochures - Free alternative investment brochures

Tools:
- Find a savings account - Calculate how your savings will grow	- Find a cash ISA - Directory of ISA brokers
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Guides:
- How to cut costs and save money	- How to cut household fuel bills

Tools:
- Check phone cost savings - Compare TV services	- Check gas and electricity savings - Water meter calculator
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Guides:
- Weekend newspaper share tips - Daily share tips - Bonds: Higher income, lower risk - Larger versus smaller companies	- Free unit trust and OEIC brochures - Free private investor brochures - Free spread betting and CFD brochures - Free investment trust brochures

Tools:
- AOL Portfolio - Get a share quote - See a share chart	- Popular share performance at a glance - Biggest daily share risers and fallers - Directory of stockbrokers from Find
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Guides:
- See how you can pay less tax - Free inheritance tax brochures	- Save tax as you give to charity

Tools:
- Do your tax return online	- Directory of tax services from Find

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