Articles belonging to ‘Sitelight’

Jemstep

Saturday, January 28, 2012 by CI Staff
Jemstep is a free online portfolio guidance and management system designed for individual investors. According to the Jemstep, the website uses technology to provide objective, transparent ratings for more than 20,000 mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Jemstep takes into account your objectives, goals and risk tolerance and identifies recommended investment options. In addition, Jemstep is able to track your holdings.

MarketRiders.com

Saturday, January 14, 2012 by CI Staff
MarketRiders.com is a unique online portfolio management program that offers certain features typically found at full-service wealth management firms.

Credit.com

Saturday, December 24, 2011 by CI Staff
Credit.com provides consumers with educational resources and information on credit products and services. The site offers users a free credit report card and allows you to compare credit cards and loans according to your individual credit score.

Briefing.com’s Daily Analyst Recommendations at NASDAQ.com

Saturday, December 10, 2011 by CI Staff
NASDAQ.com provides a section that aggregates daily analyst recommendations from a variety of research firms, investment banks and other financial institutions.

TheStreet.com Investment Research

Saturday, November 19, 2011 by CI Staff
The Investment Research area of TheStreet.com is a comprehensive, free research resource with several useful features.

Dinkytown.net

Saturday, November 5, 2011 by CI Staff
Dinkytown.net provides over 350 Java-based financial calculators, including calculators for mortgage and loan payments, investments, savings, taxes and personal finance.

J3 Information Services Group

Saturday, October 22, 2011 by CI Staff
The J3 Information Services Group website is designed to track and report timely information regarding insider activity on over 10,000 companies.

Trading Economics

Saturday, October 8, 2011 by CI Staff
Trading Economics provides historical data on economic indicators, exchange rates, stock market indexes, and government bond yields for over 200 different countries.

InvestorWords.com

Saturday, September 24, 2011 by CI Staff
InvestorWords.com is one of the premier financial glossary websites on the Internet.

MyMoney.gov

Saturday, September 10, 2011 by CI Staff
MyMoney.gov is a U.S. government website dedicated to teaching the basics of financial education. The site has three separate sections—Life Events, My Resources and Tools. Each provides useful features and articles that assist with financial decision-making. The site organizes financial education resources from over 20 different federal websites in one place.

Kiplinger Tools

Saturday, August 27, 2011 by CI Staff
Kiplinger is a personal finance and business forecasting website featuring several useful tools that can help individual investors with their investment decisions.

Investopedia.com

Saturday, August 13, 2011 by CI Staff
Investopedia.com is a financial website that has become increasingly expansive over the past several years. Originally, the website was designed as a resource for students and educational professionals, housing investment formulas and a complete dictionary of terms. The website now has the look of a comprehensive investment website, with news articles and fundamental stock data.

Seeking Alpha Earnings Center

Saturday, July 30, 2011 by CI Staff
Seeking Alpha’s Earnings Center provides earnings call transcripts. Most investors are satisfied with the annual reports that are available on company websites, but some will prefer the added explanations that top executives make on earnings calls with analysts.

footnoted.com

Saturday, July 16, 2011 by CI Staff
Accounting scandals of the past have brought to light a number of companies with questionable accounting practices. Although the issue is not as prevalent as it was during the days of Enron, there are still companies that engage in aggressive accounting, pay out excessive compensation, and practice questionable self-dealing. footnoted.com, now a part of Morningstar, takes a closer look at companies’ financial statements and routine SEC filings to find this buried information so that investors can be well informed.

adr.com

Saturday, July 2, 2011 by CI Staff
It should come as no surprise that international investing is beneficial to the portfolios of individual investors. Modern portfolio theory tells us that there is an efficient frontier, which plots the highest return investors should be able to achieve at each level of risk. Theoretically, international investments expand the efficient frontier further than domestic-only holdings do. This means investors are effectively able to generate higher returns at each level of risk or bear less risk for a given return.

Select Sector SPDRs

Saturday, June 18, 2011 by CI Staff
The Standard & Poor’s depositary receipts (SPDRs) offered at Select Sector SPDRs are a useful investment for individuals looking to round out their portfolio. These SPDR exchange-traded funds (ETFs) divide the S&P 500 into nine sectors (consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, financial, health care, industrial, materials, technology and utilities) allowing investors to quickly and easily gain exposure to certain sectors that their portfolio may be lacking.

Financial Calculators

Saturday, June 11, 2011 by CI Staff
When it comes to making sound financial decisions, it helps to know your projected cash outflows, your future net worth and the answers to common financial questions such as how much will be needed for retirement and how inflation impacts retirement spending needs. Fortunately, a website is available that helps you make numerous personal financial calculations.

Economagic

Saturday, June 4, 2011 by CI Staff
Economagic.com provides access to a wealth of economic data, the majority of which is for the U.S. The real value of the website is found in its database, which stores historical economic data going back to 1949.

United States Department of Commerce: Economics and Statistics Administration

Saturday, May 21, 2011 by CI Staff
The Economics and Statistics Administration, a part of the United States Department of Commerce, is responsible for several key roles, including providing timely economic analysis, disseminating national economic indicators and overseeing the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Financial Board Central

Saturday, May 7, 2011 by CI Staff
Financial Board Central is a superb website designed to aggregate stock news and information in one area to save investors time and effort.

ClearStation

April 2011 by CI Staff
ClearStation, a website from E*Trade, targets investors who are looking to use more technical analysis in their investment approach.

Buxfer

March 2011 by CI Staff
There are a bevy of high-quality personal finance websites available on the Internet, and Buxfer is one of the best.

BillShrink.com

February 2011 by CI Staff
BillShrink.com is unlike the websites usually featured in our Sitelight area. As the name suggests, the site attempts to provide you with the best rates on credit cards, savings accounts and CDs, as well as help you lower your bills for gas, wireless and television.

StockSpotter

January 2011 by CI Staff
StockSpotter.com is a website that provides daily buy and sell recommendations for stocks. It is meant to be followed with minimal effort on your part.

DailyFX

December 2010 by CI Staff
Foreign currency trading has always been one of the more esoteric disciplines of investing (or trading) and, as a result, useful information can be hard to come by. DailyFX, a part of FXCM, provides current news and analysis of major currencies around the world.

Kalengo.com

November 2010 by CI Staff
Kalengo.com not only provides users with portfolio tracking tools, but offers simple portfolio optimization capabilities as well.

MyBankTracker

October 2010 by CI Staff
MyBankTracker provides free, transparent information to help consumers make informed banking decisions.

DRIP Wizard

September 2010 by CI Staff
Website of dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP), stock, and mutual fund investment management program also offers free DRIP screener.

FundReveal

August 2010 by CI Staff

Covestor

July 2010 by CI Staff
Covestor is a social networking site that gives users the ability to track their own accounts and to mirror trades of other users. Individuals using the free tracking service can add and track portfolio holdings and share them with others. The site pulls data directly from your brokerage firm.

MoneyStrands

June 2010 by CI Staff
MoneyStrands is a free online personal financial service that automatically gathers data from your various financial accounts (savings, checking, loans and credit cards) to provide an up-to-date and unified view of your finances.

Find answers to Social Security and Medicare questions at Social Security Online

May 2010 by CI Staff
Find answers to Social Security and Medicare questions at Social Security Online