April 2010

The Big list of Personal Finance Management Software

Yesterday, I wrote about my experiences on trying out Mint, Yodlee, Wesabe and Thrive. Those are not the only personal finance software applications available. I have compiled a comprehensive list of resources that are available for various platforms, free or otherwise. I plan to review most of them (mainly the free ones). As I review [...]

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Reviews: Mint, Yodlee, Wesabe & Thrive

Financial Aggregation is a technology that consolidates information from different accounts, including credit cards, checking accounts, savings accounts, investments and loans, in one single place. This gives a comprehensive overview of your account balances and transactions. With just one login you can see all the transactions you made, using different credit/debit cards, balances in each [...]

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Know where your money goes

Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are. – James W. Frick I had created “The Perfect Budget”; categories where I wanted to spend my money and dollar amounts for each category.  No matter how much I tried though I always, always [...]

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Welcome to Wealth Informatics!

I graduated from college with no debt and $5000 in savings. After 3 years in a well paying job, I had less that $1000 to show for it!! After months of reading, budgeting, failing and experimenting, I am slowly moving away from a paycheck to paycheck existence. It has been an uphill battle for me. [...]

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