Yahoo has added a new section, [Personal Finance][1], to their popular Yahoo Finance portal. As the name suggests, Yahoo Personal Finance is a new suite of financial tools covering every major area of personal finance.

The major sections can be seen in the screenshot after the job, but pretty much all the categories you'd expect are there including taxes, retirement, banking and budgeting, and more.

Within each section there are numerous subsections with content from over twenty-five content providers ranging from Consumer Reports and The Motley Fool to CNNmoney and The Wall Street Journal. The majority of the aggregated content consists of advice columns, expert opinions, articles and how-to guides.

There are also over sixty new calculators to help answer questions like "what would my loan payment be?" or "how much interest will this IRA earn over time?" 

There's a portfolio tracking tool that can be used to watch stocks, track your current holdings or store a history of sales and purchases. Creating a portfolio is farily simple and includes a tool to lookup company's stock symbols. Interestingly, while the lookup tool would seem like the perfect place for some nice AJAX, it remains a separate page.

Once you add a stock or fund to your portfolio, Yahoo Personal Finance does a nice job of aggregating all the relevant articles on your chosen companies from around the web. 

Inexplicably there's no RSS feed available for your portfolio and given that some sort of RSS-like tracker is probably pulling the data in, a similar push out is conspicuously missing. 

Recognizing the power of various social networking tools, Yahoo has provided a number of toolbar buttons at the top of each section to promote sharing on other sites, including links to Yahoo's own del.icio.us as well as non-Yahoo tools like Digg.

Other nice features of the new Personal Finance include a Q & A section, interest rate trackers, a nice glossary of financial terms, and time-based suggestions like "Things To Do In January."

Overall Yahoo Personal Finance offers an impressive amount of data in one place, but other than the portfolio tracker, none of it is all that personal. If you're looking for tools to manage your accounts or track spending, you're better off with a service like [Wesabe][2], which offers far more "personalization."

If you're just looking for a lot of aggregated personal finance information in one place then you'll likely enjoy Yahoo's new offering, though the lack of RSS support might be a deal breaker for some. Hopefully Yahoo will wake up and realize their oversight on that one.

[2]: http://www.wesabe.com/ "Wesabe: Take Control of Your Money"
[1]: http://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance "Yahoo Personal Finance"