LinkFest for the Week

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Ranjan

Here are some links on money management that you may find useful:

Timeless Investment Principles for Smart Investors (Part 3): For smart and intelligent investors and by Benjamin Graham
How to get your Banking Problems Solved by Ombudsman: There’s a solution to every problem. A primer for your banking problems
HDFC Bank Charges You Rs 500 for Closing Accounts: Shocker or a non issue?
Report on Equity Investment Strategies in Emerging Markets like India: Mckinsey’s report
How to calculate Bond Yields and the Formula: Simplified bond formula. Really?
Basic Maths Tools to Understand Personal Finance: Check it out for yourself.
Comparison between ULIPs and Mutual Funds: Investment v/s Insurance: Share your views.
Why People Avoid Financial Literacy?: Please share your views too.

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Links From Personal Finance Resources Website

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Ranjan

Here are some links that you may like to read:

Higher Interest Rates for Small Savings Schemes: You get higher interest rates in your PPF and the max you can invest in PPF is up from Rs 70K to Rs 100K.
Overview of Financial Institutions Players In The Financial Markets: A primer on the players of the financial system
Deciding Between Personal Loans v/s Gold Loans: Some pointers on loans and their interest rates
The Basics of Buying Your First Home: Home loan guide
A Study on Physical Gold and Gold ETF: Everyone’s talking about gold. We too!

Any pointers on what I should write about? Thanks

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Weekly Links on Money

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Ranjan

Here are some useful and interesting posts that I enjoyed reading this week.

Too good to be true offers by Manshu details three such offers which play on our greed and in all possibility leave you disappointed.
Deepak Shenoy plots a chart on Stocks v/s Bonds that you will find useful.
LiveMint has an article dejargoning the support and resistance levels that stock experts use while recommending stocks on the TV.
And an interesting article on money behaviour that talks about why spending money on others promotes happiness.
Karan Batra, CA has a useful post on fixed income plans other than fixed deposits

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Weekly Updates on Personal Finance

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Ranjan

Here are the links on personal finance that has been posted on my website on personal finance.

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Links From My Website on Personal Finance

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Ranjan

There are some posts on the personal finance website that you may find useful. Here they are:

Free Financial Advice or Value Added Paid Advice?: It’s about the draft SEBI regulation where they propose a distinction between advisors and agents. It also points to the pitfalls of getting free advice.
IFCI Tax Saving Infrastructure Bonds Under Sec 80CCF: The first tranches of the tax saving instruments have arrived. IFCI and PFC are first off the block.
Now You Can Change Your Mediclaim Insurer: Just like your mobile number portability. But there are pitfalls again!
Managing your Career is Managing Money: Links to an interesting post by Subra.
What is Prime Lending Rates (PLR): Have started a series of short questions and answers that will help you with a working knowledge of economics so that you can manage your money better

I’ll also share some links that appear on other blogs/websites. But I prefer limiting myself to 5 links in a post. Your feedback is always welcome.

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Fear, Greed, Biases, ELSS, Taxes and More

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Ranjan

Many of our money mistakes are avoidable if we can understand how we take decisions about money. This week’s links throw light on such working of our minds and can help you take better decisions.

1. Why we Buy: How to avoid 10 Cognitive Biases: It starts with “Status Quo Bias” and says,
One of the biggest reason people lose out financially is they stick with what they know, despite much better options being available. We tend to choose the same things we chose before. And we continue to do this even when better options are available, whether it’s goods or services.

2. Avoid Fear & Greed to be a successful Investor: Easier said than done, but avoiding the fear and greed can really make you an intelligent investor.

3. Investing in Stocks after Retirement: There are reasons to put some part in stocks even after retirement and this article tells you how.

4. Manshu has an update on ELSS Mutual Funds and the tax implications.

5. The cricket fever refuses to go. So here’s an article on Financial Planning and winning in Cricket.

Generally, I stick to 5 links. Here’s a bonus link (as I have not been updating regularly ) on the best balanced Mutual Funds by Manshu.

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All About Some Basic Personal Finance Concepts

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Ranjan

The website has a few articles written by Ramalingam K which talks about the concepts on retirement, company deposits, mediclaim and Mutual Fund ELSS. Check them out and let me know what you learnt from them. Here are the links:

And yes, RupeeCamp is shaping up well. I’ll share some news about it on Monday. Thanks.

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