Archive for the ‘Cake Financial’ Category
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Social investing has now crossed the pond. Les Echos – a leading French business publication – has just
published an overview of social investing tools. The article entitled Investir
2.0: l’accès aux marches financiers se démocratise (Investing 2.0: access to
financial market is opening up) features Cake Financials, Covestor, TradeKing, Vestopia,
and Zecco, even ...
Posted in Cake Financial, Covestor, Social investing, TradeKing, Vestopia, Zecco | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Some of this summer’s events provide interesting hints about the potential pitfalls of
social investing. Market neutral hedge funds (e.g. Goldman Sachs Global Alpha fund was down 23% for
the month of August) went down in flames when they tripped upon themselves
trying to unwind highly levered bets in illiquid markets that had ...
Posted in ACMH, Cake Financial, Covestor, GS, Investing 2.0, Social investing | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 21st, 2007
The Techcrunch 40 conference added a bit of enthusiasm to the social finance space
this week by selecting Mint as the startup competition winner. Mint consolidates users’ personal finance
information across financial services (credit cards, banks, etc.), aggregates
financial services offerings, and presents/ contextualizes them. Cake Financial
– a social investing site – was also ...
Posted in Cake Financial, Mint, Social investing, TC40 | 1 Comment »