Personal Finance Forums
January 18th, 2007
Online forums can be a great source of information - learning from people in similar positions, and being able to ask questions that are specific to yourself. It obviously pays to be a little bit careful with the information that is presented on forums, though.
Although I don’t visit too many personal finance forums, my particular favourites are:
- Motley Fool Discussion Boards - covers all areas of finance, although this forum concentrates mostly on share trading. Unfortunately not the easiest to navigate, it is nevertheless a good board.
- MoneySavingExpert Forums - probably one of if not the biggest and busiest forums, and caters for all levels of knowledge. There are plenty of experts available to answer questions on all money subjects. This board also has RSS feeds for each subject, so it’s quite easy to stay in touch with all new posts. Although it’s not the best looking site, and because of the amount of information, it is sometimes difficult to seperate the “wheat from the chaff”, it is nevertheless top of my list.
I can’t help feeling that I must be missing other interesting or less obvious forums - are there any I should have a look at?
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2 Comments on “Personal Finance Forums”
SM, January 21st, 2007 at 7:00 am
To help me with family finance, I have been using a personal finance software package by Australian business Parcus Group - Personal Finance Associate.
The product is good & simple to use. For AU$29 (under US$25) it costs, you get budgeting, financial planning templates as well as advanced features that typically cost lots more as separate software packages such as investment real estate calculations (mainly based on rental cash-flow analysis) and some value based shares valuations (based on Warren Buffet’s stock valuation methodology)
Their website is http://www.parcusgroup.com
or
http://www.parcusgroup.com/index.html
For anyone interested in their budgeting & wealth creation this product is definitely worth looking at.
UKMoneyPot, February 27th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
I’ve recently added a personal finance forum to my site at:
http://www.creditmarket.co.uk/forum/
The site covers many aspects of personal finance, as does/will the forum.
It’s only been up a few days and although the stats reflect some interest, I need to start up some topical discussions and attract some guest moderators. Please get in touch if you can spare a few spare minutes!
