Quicken InsWeb (www.insweb.com) provides a Term Life Needs Analyzer that uses consumer input data and a simple model to roughly estimate consumer’s coverage needs of life insurance.
The personal financial planning services of Vanguard (flagship.vanguard.com) provides a Retirement Plan module to help customer estimating the amount of money needed to meet his objectives on retirement.
The portfolio function module of Wall Street City (www.wallstreetcity.com) help investors simulate performances of their current investment portfolios and make suggestions for improvement.
Although the needs to offer more powerful capabilities for consumer decision support on the web
sites are widely recognized, the facilities already provided to the consumers are still limited to specific products and tasks and thus unable to support full-stage and high-quality decisions.