New comparison platform Compare + Invest makes investing more accessible*

Investment just got easier thanks to a new tool called Compare + Invest which offers unbiased advice on investment platforms and helps people find the right investment platform for them based on functionality, service and price.

Founded by Bella Caridade-Ferreira, the founder of Fundscape and Finscape who has 25 years of experience in the investment industry, Compare + Invest has just launched and is fast becoming one of the leading platform comparison tools.

“A few years ago, I was trying to find the right investment platform and I was doing all the comparisons on a spreadsheet. I had the advantage of years in the financial industry and wondered how consumers coped when they may not understand the terminology and jargon. It was an impossible task,” says Bella.

She began by creating a site called Comparetheplatform and when advice platforms heard about it, they wanted to be included too. She explains: “For a while the site was for both advisers and consumers. But we took it to the next level by scaling the business and giving each one a unique identity and feel, so now there is one for consumers and another for advisers.”

Compare + Invest and Comparetheplatform.co.uk are part of Compare Investments Group Ltd.

Bella explains: “Now you can go onto Compare + Invest as a complete novice, have access to impartial advice and find the right investment platform for your specific needs, whether you are looking for low fees, a high level of customer service, or the most comprehensive range of investment products.

“I am not doing this to help the rich get richer, I am doing it so that people like my immigrant parents (who came to the UK from Portugal) can get their money to work harder for them. I believe that everyone should have access to affordable and transparent investments and our goal at Compare + Invest is to make it easier for people to find the investment platform that best suits their goals.”

Website https://compareandinvest.co.uk

Notes to Editors

What is an investment platform?

An investment platform, sometimes called a fund supermarket or an online brokerage, allows investors to buy and hold a range of investments in one place online. They are designed for those who want to make their own investment decisions but will often provide recommended fund lists and baskets of funds. It is safe to hold all your investable assets in one place thanks to robust regulation.


About Compare Investments Group Ltd

Compare Investments Group was founded by Bella Caridade-Ferreira in May 2022, launched Compare + Invest in July 2023 and relaunched Comparetheplatform.co.uk

About Bella Caridade-Ferriera

Bella Caridade-Ferreira began her career in marketing and moved into investment banking in 1995 where she was able to use her language skills extensively (Bella speaks English, Portuguese, French, Spanish and some Italian). She then went to work for Lipper FMI as Global Head of Research and Publications authoring a number of publications and reports on funds, platform guides, etc. She founded Fundscape in 2010, which specialises in end-to-end research and analysis of the UK fund industry. Bella is also Managing Director of Finscape, a collaboration between Fundscape and Altus. Finscape is an advanced business intelligence system that can process millions of records in real time to provide an accurate and detailed view of investment sales across an entire market within days of receiving data.

Bella is the CEO of Fundscape and the joint MD of Finscape. She has 25+ years’ experience in the research and analysis of the investment industry. In 2010, she established Fundscape, a research house specialising in the end-to-end analysis of the UK retail wealth management industry.
She co-founded Finscape, a distribution intelligence service for asset managers in 2019, and is also the founder and director of Compare Investments Group, which specialises in providing investment platform comparison tools for advisers and consumers.
Bella worked in investment banking before moving into fund management and retail wealth in the late nineties. Her first role was with a London-based consulting firm where she specialised in market entry strategies for cross-border fund managers. Between 2001 and 2010, Bella worked for Lipper (a Thomson Reuters company) as Global Head of Fund Market Research and was the author of numerous popular publications and reports. She left in 2010 to set up Fundscape.
Bella has a Master’s degree in International Business and is fluent in four languages. She is married with two grown-up children, fussy about grammar and punctuation, loves literature, the theatre, disco dancing and pub quizzes.

* Compare + Invest encourages responsible investing. You should only invest if you have spare money at the end of each month, do not have bad debt to pay off (i.e. credit cards) and aren’t saving for a big event/purchase, such as a house, wedding, etc.

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