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- SmartMoney Launches LifePlan, Free Online Tool for Organizing and ... - Investors Business Daily
- GoBankingRates.com Launches Innovative Deposit Account Rates ... - YAHOO!
- NCA to focus on banking market - Irish Times
- Money Dashboard Finalists In Awards For Scotland’s Best Business ... - PRLog (free press release)
| SmartMoney Launches LifePlan, Free Online Tool for Organizing and ... - Investors Business Daily Posted: 09 Mar 2010 06:58 AM PST NEW YORK, Mar 9, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- SmartMoney, the personal finance magazine from The Wall Street Journal, has launched a free online service called LifePlan (www.smartmoney.com/lifeplan) to help consumers take control of and actively manage their financial lives. The new tool will provide personalized guidance, worksheets, calculators and action items in four key "pillars" -- investments, health care, real estate and legacy issues -- supported by ongoing LifePlan-related articles in the magazine over the next year. The April issue (on newsstands March 16) will feature four LifePlan-related covers, in a unique tabbed design, each corresponding to one of the four pillars. Advertising sponsorship for LifePlan is provided by Fidelity Investments. LifePlan is the first free online service to go beyond budgeting and financial product recommendations to enable better financial decision making across all areas of consumers' financial lives. Getting started takes less than five minutes: consumers simply register a username and password and answer some basic questions about their financial lives. LifePlan then provides a personalized financial roadmap, including: -- A to-do list of tasks, customizable with due dates and personal notes, -- Relevant articles from SmartMoney in each of the four pillars, updated -- Worksheets and checklists to help with key decisions, for example -- Short videos, hosted by SmartMoney columnist Stephanie Auwerter, -- Email reminders of upcoming task due dates. SmartMoney is enjoying success within the magazine category. March advertising pages were up seven percent versus March 2009, and April ad pages showed a 44.3 percent increase over last year. SmartMoney has a readership of 800,000. About SmartMoney SmartMoney (www.smartmoney.com), the personal financial magazine from The Wall Street Journal, was launched in 1992 to service the need for personal finance information among a group of affluent and sophisticated Americans. The SmartMoney editorial team has won three National Magazine Awards. SmartMoney.com was launched in 1997 to reflect the magazine's strong background of personal finance, as well as to provide users with innovative interactive tools and worksheets. SmartMoney.com has become the most comprehensive resource on the Web for private investors, providing top-quality financial reporting, commentary and analysis, and decision-making tools. The site features a portfolio management system; a subscription-based product, SmartMoney Select; and its signature product, the Map of the Market, which allows users to visualize the wide-ranging market in a single view. The site was awarded the 2001 National Magazine Award for "Best Interactive Design" from the American Society of Magazine Editors and has been praised by Forbes, Fortune, PC Magazine and The Web Marketing Association. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| GoBankingRates.com Launches Innovative Deposit Account Rates ... - YAHOO! Posted: 09 Mar 2010 05:39 AM PST GoBankingRates.com announced the launch of their new interest rate comparison tool, which will deliver a free and innovative way for consumers to locate the best bank rates available. This free comparison tool comes at a key time in the recession when consumers are actively looking to get the highest interest rate available with the least amount of risk. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 9, 2010 -- GoBankingRates.com, a leading online provider of national and local bank rates and personal finance information, announced the launch of their new interest rate comparison tool, which will deliver a free and innovative way for consumers to locate the best bank rates available. This free comparison tool comes at a key time in the recession when consumers are actively looking to get the highest interest rate available with the least amount of risk. Consumers want to not only see the best rates and products from larger national banks, but have the ability to compare smaller local banks and credit unions in their neighborhoods. The tool allows banks and credit unions to display their rates and products online to consumers who are searching in a specific, geo-targeted location. GoBankingRates.com wants to make it easier for consumers to find the type of bank or credit union they are looking for, and make it easier for banks and credit unions to be found. GoBankingRates.com distinguishes its rates comparison tool from other rates charts in a number of ways. First, consumers are able to filter rates results not only for local bank rates, but for credit union rates, national banks and even online banks. They can also look for the best rates across an extensive list of over 5,000 banks and credit unions nationwide. Another unique feature is the detailed information provided on each bank in addition to rates, including details on products, branch locations, maps and other services available from the bank, all improving connectivity and communication between banks and consumers. Banks and credit unions can stay ahead of their competitors by displaying their rates and services on featured areas of the rates tables, as well as share additional information about themselves within GoBankingRates.com 2,000 local sites. They can be placed within the national rates results, specific cities and states of interest, and entire metropolitan areas depending on which market they would like to enter. Jeff Bartlett, president of the GoMedia Network, which owns and operates GoBankingRates.com, said, "We are very excited to allow financial institutions the opportunity to reach a highly targeted demographic to better offer the products and services that will make a difference in their financial lives. The rates tables are a first step in helping consumers better locate the bank and credit union rates they're searching for, and connecting them with the people who can help." About Go Banking Rates: For information on advertising and more, contact: # # # GoBankingRates Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| NCA to focus on banking market - Irish Times Posted: 09 Mar 2010 05:32 AM PST irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 13:22 CONOR POPE Reduced competition in the Irish banking sector following the withdrawal of Halifax and Postbank from the market is to become priority for the National Consumer Agency (NCA), its chief executive Ann Fitzgerald said this morning. Speaking as the NCA assumed the consumer information and education functions of the Financial Regulator, Ms Fitzgerald expressed concern that some banks operating in the Irish market were insisting that consumers who switched their mortgages from Halifax also moved all their accounts to the bank. She said she also wanted the agency to address transparency of costs for consumers across the financial services market and increase financial education for consumers. Staff from the Financial Regulator's office have been seconded to work on the integration of these functions into the NCA ahead of legislation which is currently being drawn up to formally transfer the responsibilities on a statutory basis to the agency. She added the NCA planned to investigate what banking products were genuinely being offered by Irish banks as opposed to what they were claiming to offer in their advertising campaigns. The NCA will not have any regulatory or enforcement powers in the financial services sector and they will remain the remit of the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator. "Today's announcement is good news consumers in Ireland who, for the first time, will have a single body to represent their interests on consumer issues including personal finance matters," she said. "They will also benefit from having an independent one-stop-shop for consumer rights and personal finance information." She said the financial services market was changing almost daily so consumers needed "to be equipped with the right information in order to make the best decisions possible when committing to financial products and services". "The NCA will place a particular emphasis on financial education for consumers, transparency of costs and declining competition between financial providers." It was also announced today the NCA plans to pilot a workplace financial education programme based on the commitments made in the report of the Steering Group on Financial Education where volunteers from industry and other stakeholders support the delivery of personal finance education in the workplace and the community. "At the end of the day Irish consumers want to make well informed, smart choices," said Ms Fitzgerald. "People have become more careful about what, where and how they spend their money. We have seen a serious shift in shopping habits where the household budget is concerned. People have learned to vote with their feet, spread their shopping basket and switch provider where necessary. We would like to see this trend mirrored as far as possible in the personal finance sector." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Money Dashboard Finalists In Awards For Scotland’s Best Business ... - PRLog (free press release) Posted: 09 Mar 2010 07:20 AM PST PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 09, 2010 – Money Dashboard has been nominated as finalist in the John Logie Baird awards for its innovative work to launch an online personal finance tool for the UK consumer. As part of the awards programme, Money Dashboard will exhibit and showcase their innovation to the business community, at a high profile exhibition at the Glasgow Science Centre.
Designed to recognise and celebrate innovation by encouraging the commercial exploitation of Scotland's intellectual capital, the results of this year's prestigious
The awards are presented to the innovative projects with the best prospects of commercial success and provide a full programme of support and national publicity to the winners. Isabell Majewsky, CEO of award organisers The GO Group, comments: "It's fantastic to see so many inventors and innovators from Edinburgh making it to the next stages of the Awards programme. The calibre of entries this year was particularly high so all those shortlisted should be immensely proud of their achievement." With a total of over 200 applications received this year just seven, including
The awards' key objectives are to identify and highlight innovative commercial ideas in Scotland, to provide a range of benefits and assistance to entrepreneurs and companies, and ultimately to optimise the commercialisation of the best business ideas in Scotland and beyond. Gavin Littlejohn, Money Dashboard's CEO explains: "For Money Dashboard to be nominated for an award for innovation is wonderful and we are honoured to received the endorsement of such an influential national competition. Independent of banks, building societies and lending organisations, our aim is to be the consumer's friend, putting people in control of their finances and helping them find ways to save." Money Dashboard is a free online personal finance service for the UK consumer. It brings a person's bank accounts, credit cards and store cards together in one service - giving a clear up to the minute picture of their personal finances. Consumers can access it from any PC and by spending just ten minutes a month it allows them to track spending, set budgets and helps them save. It will also send email and text alerts of budget overspend, suspicious transactions or important events. Initially, entrants compete at a regional level, with judges looking for originality, entrepreneurial ability, market potential and the ability to develop the idea. The national John Logie Baird Awards are run in partnership with the Technology Strategy Board, Informatics Ventures, the University of Glasgow Innovation Network, Biggart Baillie LLP, EDTC Technology Gateway, Edinburgh Napier University and PERA Innovation Network. The awards are open each year to both individuals and companies from across Scotland. Entrants compete to win £20,000 worth of product and marketing support. http://www.moneydashboard.com
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