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Motley Fool UK Wins Top Online Finance Award

November 29, 2001

The Motley Fool UK yesterday won the People's Choice award for favourite financial website at the 2001 Investor's Week Online Finance Awards, hosted by Jonathan Ross. This event recognises the achievements of companies and organisations that have embraced the opportunities provided by the Internet for all aspects of personal finance.

The People's Choice Award is unique among the Awards because it is decided by the readers of the Evening Standard and Investor's Week magazine, rather than the panel of judges.

Bruce Jackson, Managing Director and Founder of the Motley Fool UK, said: "We are particularly pleased to have won the People's Choice Award as it confirms our popularity amongst the ordinary people we are here to serve." He went on: "This award is a mandate for us to continue to demystify finance and promote value for money in the financial services industry. Thank-you to all who voted for us."

For more information or to interview Bruce Jackson of the Motley Fool, please contact The RED Consultancy: Eileen McGuinness 020 7465 7733 or email eileenm@redconsultancy.com

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The Motley Fool's mission is to give individuals the tools to manage and invest their own money by explaining finance using straightforward, jargon-free language.

Launched in 1997, www.fool.co.uk enjoys a growing number of page views – over  21 million in October  2001 – and visitors each month (more than 250,000).  The site has previously been awarded:

1999 New Media Age Effectiveness Award for Best Personal Finance site
1999 Creative Freedom Award for Best web site
2000 Net Magazine Award for Best finance site
2000 Investor's Week Award for Best Bulletin Boards
2001 Net Magazine Award for Best finance site

Motley Fool pundits appear often on BBC One, Radio Five Live and BBC World Service and write regular columns for a range of publications including Independent on Sunday, Bloomberg Money and Cosmopolitan.  The Motley Fool has published eight books in the UK, of which the UK Investment Guide was a Sunday Times business books and Amazon UK bestseller. Total book sales are over 300,000.