Yahoo!7 launches personal finance site
Yahoo!7 has launched a personal finance site including loan and credit card repayment calculators and video content.
The announcement:
August 17, 2011 –
Yahoo!7 today announced the launch its new Personal Finance site, offering users even more resources and advice on how to better manage their personal finances.
The new site includes many new features and sections including ‘Fame and Fortune’ which provides insights into celebrity finances and ‘Real Estate’ which looks at property investment, plus more video content and images across a range of finance topics. Users will also have access to an updated ‘Tips and Tools’ section, which includes calculators for loan repayments, credit card repayments, stamp duty, compound interest and more.
Users can watch up-to-the-minute market news updates, discover whether they are paying too much on their bills or better understand how changing market conditions impact their personal finances. Also on offer is the chance for users to have their financial questions answered by one of the 18 financial experts such as Peter Switzer.
Sue Carter, Head of News and Information, Yahoo!7, said: “The new site delivers the best of local and global finance content to Australians drawing on the resources of Yahoo!’s number one finance site globally, the Seven Network and our range of content partners. We’re pleased to offer our users even more to help them better understand and manage their personal finances.”
The new site, which is part of the market leading Yahoo!7 Finance site, is expected to deliver even more highly engaged users for advertisers. A range of online advertising formats are available.
Source: Yahoo!7 press release
This sounds like a good competitor to Google finances. I wonder how this will compare in contrast to Google?
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Interesting. This one has taken forever to come about. After all, if you look at the raw numbers, more Australians look to ninemsn for their financial news than anwhere else.
That’s fukken scary.
What it is, more than anything else, is an inditment of the terrible strategy employed by the AFR and their hopeless paywall shennanigans. Bottom line is that the AFR had the brand and the bodies to create a must read financial news website, for ALL Australians. They chose not to, and instead bumbled along in that typical Fairfax way and tried valiantly to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
They just ddidn’t have the vision to do that under Michael Gill. Now it might just be too late and the ship has sailed.
After all, it was pitched several times to Gill that he should launch a free financial /business daily to compete with MX. An AFR lite if you will.
A business paper read by tens of thousands of middle managers daily on public transport every day? Can’t imagine any business advertisers would be interested in that…….
Where’s the shareprice now?
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just what we need, more economists, stockbrokers and various other paid shills pretending they know what’s going on in the world’s economies and markets while really having little clue – but happy to share in the ticket clip of our hard-won savings and compulsory superannuation
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