RupeeManager is a easy-to-use personal finance software to manage your money. It primarily helps organize one’s finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes and comes.

Measuring something has an uncanny tendency to improve it. And that’s what RupeeManager helps you to get started with.
Other than tracking your earnings and your expenses, it is important to see if your money is working for your future. We have a feature where you can allocate your income among fixed expenses, discretionary expenses, short term savings and long term investments. …

The following are the posts for improving my financial IQ. Posts are relevant to India.

All Retail Financial Products to go “No Load” by 2011 in India

Open Letter to Kamesh Goyal, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance CEO
Personal Finance Websites in India
Competencies Required to Invest in Stock Markets
Coming Soon! Rupee Manager Workshops Near You
How to Teach Personal Finance to Kids
Thank You, You Are Invited!
RupeeManager: Assign work for your Money
Introducing India’s Online Insurance Community
Financial Literacy Efforts in India

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Ajay Shah peers into 2009 and concludes:
From an investment perspective, 2009 and 2010 is going to offer remarkable buying opportunities for the long run.  Long-term investors will do well by loading up on equities in this period. The corporate bond market will also offer attractive propositions. But in the short term, this will be a daunting time. The greatest benefits will go to the discriminating speculator, who is able to thoroughly study firm fundamentals, make calls on which firms will prosper across the downturn, and choose good entry prices for …

Personal Finance Bulletin
A modified version of my personal finance e-book in the form of a bulletin has been uploaded here.
Check out the link below and let me know your feedback. Thanks

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I have installed PhpBB Forum software on a subdomain of my personal finance website.
The success of the forum depends on users. Do take out some time and register. And then, share, discuss and ask personal finance questions & issues.
Thanks

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I had been struggling to put up a database of financial products on my personal finance website. It had to be a database where you can filter, view details and link to the relevant urls. And then I needed to put it on my Joomla site. The good news is that I have finally been able to do the thing! Take a look!
Financial Products in India
The database needs to be filled up and that will take time. But I am waiting for your suggestions on what information that you would …

 Yudishthira answers that the most amazing thing is that even though every day one sees countless living beings that are old and dying but no one can imagine him/herself as old or taking that last journey!
That’s why people have a natural tendency to avoid financial planning
Read the full details at RanjanBlog.com

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Over the last year or so, there has been a sense of disquiet relating to the mis selling of financial products. Much of the complaints have been directed at distributors of insurance products, who are ever so keen on pushing unit linked insurance plans (Ulips) rather than plain vanilla life insurance plans. In the past, such charges had been hurled at mutual funds and issuers of credit cards as well.
While some of the charges may stick, it is striking that apart from the sophistication of new financial products and …

Pension and annuity are generally associated with security and stability in the sunset years.
A stable annuity is definitely desirable in retirement. Who wants money/ cash-flow worries when one would rather sit back and relax? But, are pension plans the best avenue for retirement planning? Probably not, as we shall see here.
Pension plans from insurance companies
Pension plans are generally offered by insurance companies. These may be traditional products or unit-linked insurance plans.
The points to ponder over in such plans are as follows:
• Pension plans from insurance companies have high cost structures, …

Sundar is a Google Software Engineer and has been selected to IIM, Bangalore’s PGP this year. He had some very interesting questions on personal finance. He wanted to know why people do a shoddy job when it comes to financial planning among other things.
Read my interview at компютриCoffee with Sundar
I enjoyed answering those interesting questions.
Thanks Sundar

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