New Tools For Financial Planning Advice Are Available Now!
Sat Mar 20, 2010, 4:17 am | 3 Comments
A couple of new websites went live last week in the landscape of the Internet that give you tools to help in planning your personal finances in the form of advice. One is HelloWallet and the other LifePlan. So far, Mint – now owned by Intuit – is the most popular as your personal finance organizer. Many folks use it and the good thing is it’s absolutely free. You can use it for traditional budgeting and money tracking.
- HelloWallet is developed by a consumer finance scholar who used to work for Brookings Institution. For a monthly subscription of $4, in addition to features offered by Mint, it offers to recommend customized financial plans for saving for college and retirement among other plans.
- College Savings – Based on tuition cost trends for the particular college and your saving history, it will recommend how much to save monthly.
- Mortgage – It figures out how much you should save to buy a house in your local neighborhood. It will forecast your home’s likely worth in the future [could be an important feature] in an elaborate fashion.
- Free Service – What sets HelloWallet apart from a site like Mint.com is that it doesn’t take any advertising dollars. That is probably why they charge $4 a month for subscription. Over the next five years, the website is offering free service for at least 300,000 low-income families.
- LifePlan is developed by Smart Money – a magazine owned by Wall Street Journal. It asks users a series of questions about topics such as income and savings and then provides custom finance articles, to-do-lists and tutorials. It is free. Fidelity Investments, for now, is the sole advertiser on the website.
In a Nutshell
Because they are both free, try Mint as well as LifePlan and see which one satisfies your needs for financial planning. If you need to have a more elaborate tool that gives you extra features that you might be able to use, then HelloWallet is a better choice for $4 a month.
What do you think?
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