Archive for April, 2009

 

Mint Turns Personal Finance Into A Game. It’s Better Than It Sounds (TechCrunch)

April 29th, 2009

Mint , the popular personal finance site that won 2007’s TechCrunch40, is launching a new feature called “Financial Fitness” which, strange as it may sound, adds an element of gaming to the service. Yes, it may sound like a bizarre combination at first - personal finance and fun aren’t exactly two things that go hand [...]

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China info: stock market, multinationals, finance, banking, jobs, politics, management (cmi valparaíso)

April 29th, 2009

Is China taking advantages of Western financial and economic crisis? What is really inside Chinese politics, govenment, education, finance, banking, outsourcing and society?

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Reviving Your Money; MoneyRates.com Expert Weighs in on Money Management (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

April 29th, 2009

What’s the best way to manage cash you have on the sidelines while waiting for the stock market to settle down? Richard Barrington, a new personal finance expert and retirement advisor for MoneyRates.com–a leading source of information on bank rates, personal finance, savings accounts and investing since 1999–weighs in on money management during tough economic [...]

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Money 101: Personal finance course helps Tennessee gain prominence in education field (Memphis Commercial Appeal)

April 29th, 2009

Effective for incoming ninth-graders, public school students in Tennessee have to pass a personal finance course to meet high school graduation requirements. Utah and Missouri are the only other states with similar requirements.

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Friends Provident IT to support Tesco Personal Finance (Computing.co.uk)

April 29th, 2009

Angelica Mari, Computing , Tuesday 28 April 2009 at 12:10:00 Insurer will use its IT to enable provision of insurance products to Tesco’s financial services arm Friends Provident will use its IT to support the setting up of Tesco’s financial services offering, the firm said in its financial results today. The insurer will provide protection [...]

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Mint Turns Personal Finance Into A Game. It’s Better Than It Sounds (TechCrunch)

April 29th, 2009

Mint , the popular personal finance site that won 2007’s TechCrunch40, is launching a new feature called “Financial Fitness” which, strange as it may sound, adds an element of gaming to the service. Yes, it may sound like a bizarre combination at first - personal finance and fun aren’t exactly two things that go hand [...]

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Nationally Renowned Personal Finance Experts Announce New "Bill of Rights" for Investors (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

April 29th, 2009

Personal finance experts Ken and Daria Dolan, who are frequently called “America’s First Family of Personal Finance,” today released a new “Bill of Rights” to provide Americans with a greater ability to take control of their money, make smart choices and demand and get accountability from Wall Street and Washington.

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Money 101: Personal finance course helps Tennessee gain prominence in education field (Memphis Commercial Appeal)

April 29th, 2009

Effective for incoming ninth-graders, public school students in Tennessee have to pass a personal finance course to meet high school graduation requirements. Utah and Missouri are the only other states with similar requirements.

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Aflac named No. 1 among insurance brands (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)

April 29th, 2009

City Business Journals Network has named Aflac Inc. as the top brand in the insurance and financial services industry for 2009.

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Income insurance (Moneymanager)

April 29th, 2009

Good idea or waste of money? Q. I am in my early 40’s, single, and have a mortgage. I am considering getting income protection insurance after seeing two ill friends receive no income for six months as they had no insurance.

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