Archive for the ‘Social investing’ Category
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Wikinvest has just raised $2.5M from DCM and officially launched – although it’s been in
open beta for a few months now. In terms of features, on the plus side, the
shared stock chart is a sleek feature and a visual way to share facts and opinions
about stock trends. As far as ...
Posted in Social investing, User-Generated Content, wikinvest | No Comments »
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 »
Monday, September 17th, 2007
O’Reilly announced a new addition to its conference roll with Money:Tech, which will take place in New York in February 2008. This event brings some excitement back to a market that’s been out of favor with Silicon Valley’s cognoscenti since the burst of the Internet bubble and the e-brokerage consolidation. ...
Posted in Investing 2.0, Money:Tech, Social investing, TRIDR | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Google Finance has just released new features for its financial portal. Overall, the redesign significantly improves
the homepage and delivers a lot more information in a much smoother way.
I found the “Popularity” feature in the top movers section very interesting. This feature uses Google Trends to rank stocks/companies based ...
Posted in GOOG, Google, Google Base, Google Finance, Investing 2.0, Social investing | No Comments »
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Social investing has picked up my interest lately. I plan to review and track services in this area, as they become available and improve.
Few areas of web 2.0 elicit as much controversy as “social investing”, loosely defined as services that add a social network twist to online financial and ...
Posted in financial newsletters, GOOG, Google, Investing 2.0, Social investing, Socialpicks, Stockpickr, TheStreet, web2.0, Yahoo!, YHOO | No Comments »