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If you do equities Quantopian gives you a free backtesting platform with tick data going back to 2003. Pretty useful to just start hacking some ideas on it.
There's a cool article about this by Robert Carver who used to be a portfolio manager at one of the top quant funds.
https://qoppac.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/david-versus-goliath.h...
I made this while playing around with node and react. It's free, open source, allows anonymous registration and has an open api.
It's pretty awesome even if you don't do Excel-like things with it. Just having a spreadsheet to organize stuff is really handy on the ipad.
I'm going to give this app a try, it looks well put together.
As a developer I hope that software companies don't establish this type of tracking but it would probably work at other types of jobs, at least in the short run. I could see it having a negative effect on company morale as time goes by.
For the general case it probably makes more sense to just invest in Vanguard directly. The downside is that people would have to do their own research in regards to asset allocation. But imo that endeavor would be worth it seeing how these accounts will be around for potentially decades.