best of the best

BANK GOLD WINNER: G&C MUTUAL BANK NON-BANK GOLD WINNER: NORTHERN INLAND CREDIT UNION Across all financial products there can be few that have such a wide variation in costs as credit cards. At the top end of the scale, some cards charge interest rates ... More

GOLD WINNER: MOOSE MOBILE Australia's smartphone mania keeps growing. We are currently the fourth largest nation of smartphone owners globally, according to the latest Deloitte Mobile Consumer survey, at an estimated 84%. Collectively, we interact more ... More

GOLD WINNER: BINGLE As part of the Suncorp Group, Bingle has all of the resources of a big insurer but it is able to keep a lid on the cost of car insurance premiums by operating chiefly online. As a measure of its consistent good value, Bingle also ... More

GOLD WINNER: HOSTPLUS The Hostplus Balanced super fund has consistently ranked as the top-performing balanced fund over one, three, five and seven years for its 1.1 million members. With $30 billion under management, the fund has a wide range of assets ... More

Now in its 17th year, Money magazine's Best of the Best 2018 issue has narrowed down Australia's best financial products, services and investments for 2018. With thousands of products from hundreds of different institutions, Money - with the assistance ... More

GOLD WINNERS: POLICE BANK (BANK), LIBERTY (NON-BANK) It feels good to reduce your debts, especially if you manage to get ahead of your repayments, and our two winners in the category of cheapest personal loans advertise zero penalties for paying out ... More

GOLD WINNER:CBUS Cbus Growth wins the award for best balanced fund with 67% in growth assets and the remainder in conservative investments. The 32-year-old public offer fund, originally established as the super fund for workers in the building and ... More

GOLD WINNER: BUDGET DIRECT The winner of Money's Best of the Best award for Cheapest Home and Contents Insurance, Budget Direct provides a 20% discount for arranging and paying for cover online, and a 35% saving when home and contents insurance are ... More

GOLD WINNER: SPINTEL Movies and games chew through the data, so make sure you're covered You'd be hard-pressed to find an Aussie without the internet. In fact, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates 13.3 million of us currently have a broadband ... More

GOLD WINNER: OVO MOBILE What's interesting in this category is that what was once the key consideration - making phone calls - is nowadays taken for granted. All three of our winners provide unlimited calls, texts and picture messages as standard. ... More