pBalancer
What is pBalancer...
Software to enable a do-it-yourself investor to manage their portfolio. You define you the target asset allocation and current holdings -- pBalancer will track their values and help you decide when it is time to rebalance.
Who will benefit...
DIY investors who want to maintain a static asset allocation.
- Do you find yourself with accounts at multiple institutions (one or more work 401Ks, IRAs, taxable brokerage accounts, etc...)? pBalancer will let you manage ALL of your accounts as a portfolio.
- Do you have a homegrown spreadsheet to track your investments? Let pBalancer give you structure and skip the formulas. Spreadsheets that started simple can grow unweildy over time. It might be time to upgrade.
- Do you want to use a more complicated asset allocation, but don't think you can handle it on your own? Give pBalancer a shot... Choose from more than a dozen popular asset allocations, or customize your own.
- Do you currently have an advisor, but think you could do it yourself if you had a tool to help. Do-it-yourself isn't for everyone, and pBalancer won't replace the services of an advisor, but it won't charge you 1% of assets under management either.
What won't it do...
- Invasively connect to your financial accounts. Pro: no security concerns with 3rd party data access. Con: you will need to enter your investment holdings into pBalancer and manage changes over time. Quarterly or yearly data updates are probably sufficient for most buy and hold investors.
- Perform transactions on your accounts. pBalancer is not a robo-advisor, you will need to be comfortable entering buy/sell transactions yourself.
- Give investing advice. You must choose your own asset allocation and decide whether to follow any suggestions.
- Sell your data.