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. …

Latest updates on my website on personal finance

Tips on the way to Financial Freedom
Coffee With Sundar on Personal Finance
What are exchange traded funds etf and how they are different from Mutual Funds
India’s first eBook on personal finance: Monday is Moneyday
Indians prefer keeping 65% savings in the Banks
Top Five Equity Linked Saving Schmes (ELSS) which also save Tax
Baby Steps for a newbie Stocks Investor

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I am a big fan of Ramit Sethi’s blog on personal finance (banking, saving, budgeting and investing) and personal entrepreneurship. And I was delighted to be able to meet him in person while he is on a vacation to India.
Ramit is a graduate of Stanford, where he studied technology and psychology. He’s the co-founder & VP of Marketing for PBwiki, a wiki startup in Silicon Valley.
We chatted up on many things included the ghee filled wedding food, bargaining/negotiation skills of Indians and how even poor people are happier here compared …

Guy Kawasaki has done it again! With the internet exploding with information overload, here comes an aggregation that classifies information from the best and popular sites focussing on that niche.
For example for personal finance, check out the AllTop on Personal Finance 
AllTop helps you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web. They’ve grouped these collections — ”aggregations” — into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as environment, photography, science, celebrity gossip, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, they …

Why should we invest in Mutual Funds?
Where to invest and Why
Being covered may not be sexy but smart
Financial Literacy for You and Me
Seven Deadly Sins of Financial Planning

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Here they are. What do we do to make it better?

Stock Market Analytics and Investment Strategies at Moneyoga
How an actuary buys Insurance?
Update for week ending October 16, 2007
The fundamentals of tax planning
Where is your money going and where do you want it to go?
Update for week ending October …

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The week’s update brings a lot of action taking place in the Insurance, Mutual Funds industry. We focus on the health insurance updates here.
·          Several life insurance companies have of late plunged into the health segment, which till recently was dominated by general insurance companies. Among others, ICICI Prudential has launched Hospital Care and Crisis Cover and Bajaj Allianz, the Care First plan. Life Insurance Corporation, too, plans to roll out products soon.
·          But, are these products any different from those offered by the general insurance companies, popular as mediclaim …

If you want to manage something, you must be able to measure it. In other words, if you can’t measure it, you really can’t manage it well.
Your personal finances also falls within the above concept. How do you know whether you are doing well with your personal finances or not?
So there are tools and calculators available which can help you with a self analysis and provide a road map for your finance decisions.
The following spreadsheets which I have done on Zoho , which has a suite of online web …

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Our manifesto (lifted from “The Bootstrapper’s Bible” by Seth Godin):
We have initiative and insight and guts but not much money. We will succeed because our efforts and our focus will defeat bigger and better funded competitors. We are fearless. We keep our focus on growing the business- not on politics, career advancement, or other wasteful distractions.
We will leverage our skills for every department (content, marketing and support), yet realize that hiring experts can be the secret to our

success. We will be a fervent user of technology, to conserve …

India’s first online weekly on personal finance has it’s genesis in the passion to inform and share knowledge. But we also want it to be done in the most professional manner. So we built this business model for ourselves. Take a look and tell us where we can improve.
1.0 Executive Summary:PersonalFinance2.01 is
India’s first online weekly on personal finance. It will be an information and aggregator site on the subject of personal finance in
India. In other words, the site organizes information on personal finance in
India.1.1 Objectives:The simple objective …

Welcome to the site map of India’s first online weekly on personal finance. I’ll be delighted with some feedback.
Sections

Exchange Traded Funds
Stocks
Mutual Funds
Insurance
Bonds

Features

Feeds
Web Links
Articles
Editor’s Choice
Financial Literacy articles

Forum:A place to ask your questions or to help the other guys with their doubts
Directory: Find an advisor in your area. And if you are an advisor yourself, you can register
Calculators: The best way to manage your finances is to measure them.
About Us

Foreword
Frequently asked questions
Blog
Sitemap

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SEBI is mulling over a proposal to waive entry loads for direct subscriptions to Mutual Funds which is not routed through a distributor/ AMFI Advisor.
The Stock market news shows a daily flip flop. One day it rises and the next it goes down. So instead of the weekly roundup, let’s take a look at some heavy minuses in the past.  So what comes down, goes up again and vice versa!

HEFTY LOSSES…

Date
Close
Prv Cls
Chg
% Chg

Source: Business Standard

The Digital Infrastructure in India
Overview of a Financial System
The fundamentals of Asset Allocation
The charges and loads …

 Ten months ago I did not know what a blog was! Stuck at home due to a back injury, I was chatting with a geeky friend about websites when he suggested that why didn’t I start with a blog. Blog? What’s that, I said and my friend sent me the blogger link!!
And I have been amazed at the helping hand provided in forums, blogs, bloggers and comments who encouraged me on this journey. It’s another kind of life!!
I wanted to organize all the information I had and wanted to share. …

The third update on India’s first online weekly on personal finance has the following articles.

Questions about this site
The fundamentals of technical analysis and charting
Seven Deadly Sins of Financial Planning
Why should we invest in Mutual Funds?
Update for week ending August 21, 2007
The anatomy of Distress Selling
Understanding ACC

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The weekly update on Personal Finance 2.01 has the following articles other than the update
Will Growth slow Corruption or Corruption slow Growth
Where to find the best financial products in India
Schedule a Money Day for Yourself
Picking up stocks in the Real Estate Sector
Where to invest and Why

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The following are the important events and decisions made during the first week of August’07 which has an impact on our personal finances.    
On 31st July, RBI Governor announced the review of its monetary policy and increased the cash reserve ratio (the deposits that banks keep with RBI) from 6.5% to 7%. RBI also lifted the daily cap of Rs 3000 crore which the RBI had kept on absorption of excess liquidity. The CRR move will lead to absorbing around Rs 15-16000 crore of excess liquidity from the system.
The RBI has the …