By Trent Hamm
A long while back (was it really 2008), I wrote an overview of the web-based personal finance tools available at that time. I didn’t really give a strong recommendation to any of them, though I did end up serving as an advisor for a time with Wesabe.
Today, Mint.com is clearly the frontrunner in this field, but there are many other services that offer similar financial tools via the web. Many banks have incorporated similar tools into their online services, and other similar services such as TurboTax can be done fully via the web.
Personally, I don’t use any of them.
Why not? Mostly, it comes down to information security, as I briefly touched on in the article linked to above.
It’s not that I doubt the security policies of any of the sites.... More...
