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The College Investor Best Of Awards 2023

The College Investor Best-Of Awards 2023

For over 10 years, The College Investor has been reviewing products and services for consumers in banking, investing, student loans, insurance, budgeting, and more.

Our goal is to help you make better informed financial decisions - and most of those choices will intersect a financial product or service at some point. Here are our picks for the best financial products and services in 2023.

The Winners

Banking

  • Best Free Checking Accounts
  • Best High-Yield Checking Accounts
  • Best High-Yield Savings Accounts
  • Best Money Market Accounts
  • Best College Student Checking Accounts
  • Best Starter Checking Accounts
  • Best Online Banks
  • Best Credit Unions
  • Best Overall Bank CD Options
  • Best Business Checking Accounts 
  • Best Business Savings Accounts

Investing

  • Best Brokerage Accounts
  • Best Investing Apps
  • Best Robo-Advisors
  • Best IRA Accounts
  • Best HSA Accounts
  • Best Self-Directed IRA Accounts
  • Best Solo 401k Accounts
  • Best Options Trading Platform
  • Best Cryptocurrency Exchange
  • Best Cryptocurrency Savings Account
  • Best Investment Newsletters And Subscriptions

Student Loans

  • Best Student Loan Refinancing
  • Best Private Student Loans
  • Best No-Cosigner Student Loans
  • Best International Student Loans
  • Best Medical School Refinancing
  • Best Income-Share Agreements

Taxes

  • Best Tax Software
  • Free Tax Software
  • Best Crypto and NFT Tax Software

Insurance

  • Best Renters Insurance
  • Best Car Insurance

Credit Cards

  • Best Cash Back Credit Cards
  • Best Rewards Credit Cards
  • Best Business Credit Cards

Other Loans

  • Best Personal Loans
  • Best Home Equity Sharing Agreements

Financial Tools

  • Best Budgeting Apps
  • Best Portfolio Trackers

How Do We Make Our Picks?

The College Investor is dedicated to helping you navigate the complex financial decisions you have to make at each step of your financial journey. To do this, we provide advice, guidance, guides, and review tools to help you make better decisions.

There are thousands of financial products and services out there, and we believe in helping you understand which is best for you, how it works, and will it actually help you achieve your financial goals. We test, try, use, and review as many products and services as we can find. Our picks are based on our experiences and your feedback.

Brands and companies can NEVER pay us for reviews or inclusion on these lists. 

Who Decides?

Our amazing team or editors and writers decides these lists based on their reviews and experiences using these products and services. Our team of experts has been using and testing these tools for over a decade, and their work has been featured by major media outlets you know and trust.

Here's a selection of a few of the team members involved:

Robert Farrington

Robert Farrington, Editor-in-Chief

Robert has been reviewing and testing financial products and services for over 12 years and has vast experience in the consumer-facing Fintech space.

Sarah Sharkey

Sarah Sharkey, Writer

Sarah is a personal finance writer that has been reviewing and comparing banking and investment products for over 5 years. 

Eric Rosenberg

Eric Rosenberg, Writer

Eric is a personal finance writer that has been covering investing, taxes, crypto, and more for over a decade.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you decide the winners?

The College Investor team reviews products and services, polls our audience, conducts surveys, analyzes rates, fees, rewards, and other features, to come up with an opinion about how a product or service serves our readers best.

Can companies pay to be featured?

Never! We never allow companies to pay to be featured in our comparisons and awards. We also never allow or accept compensation from a company to be reviewed. All of our reviews are strictly the opinion of our editorial team.  

How often do you update your "best of" awards?

We update the accuracy of our content daily. This means if any product or service has a feature or rate change, we update our reviews an comparisons to reflect that. In general, we update our overall "best of" awards highlighted here annually. In some rare circumstances, products or services may change and we might update our lists as needed. 

We are always focused on our end goal of making sure you, the reader, know our opinions of the best options. And if something changes, we're not going to wait months to share the news.

Where can we share our feedback on these products and services?

Reader feedback is incredibly important to our mission. We try and use these products, but we simply cannot always keep up, find every use case, or encounter every issue. If you have feedback for a product or service, please leave a comment on the respective review. We take these into consideration as we update our picks, and it's also helpful for other readers who may be thinking about using a product or service.

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