Category Archives: Personal Finance

Is ULIP for you?

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Ranjan

ULIP is a hot selling insurance product these days. Unit Linked Insurance policy is an insurance policy where the funds are invested in the Capital market and the policyholder bears all the investment risks. Insurance companies are falling over each … Continue reading →

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Take Responsibility for Your Finances

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Ranjan

Slideshare is a wonderful way of sharing your slides and powerpoint presentations. It is a place to share and discover slideshows. You can embed the slideshows in your blog, tag, comment and have fun. I have embedded a presentation I … Continue reading →

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What are Stocks and should you invest in Stocks?

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Ranjan

When you buy a share of a company you become a shareholder in that company. Shares are also known as Equities. Equities have the potential to increase in value over time. It also provides your portfolio with the growth necessary … Continue reading →

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What is Finance all about?

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Ranjan

FINANCE looks daunting. For me too. I was in Rishikesh a few years back in the winters and one old resident told me, “The water is warm when the Sun has not risen. Try it”, with a straight face. Next … Continue reading →

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Investing is plain Common Sense

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Ranjan

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is an amazing book by John Bogle. Read this about the book you can buy on Amazon. Investing is all about common sense. Owning a diversified portfolio of stocks and holding it for … Continue reading →

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What are Exchange Traded Funds

Posted on April 7, 2007 by Ranjan

Basically, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are open-ended index fund that can also be traded on the stock market. Compared to Mutual funds, there are many advantages of ETFs, one is real time pricing, secondly long term investors are protected from … Continue reading →

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How to get started?

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Ranjan

Personal Finance is a thing which we keep on postponing. I’m already feeling like a poet out catching people to hear my poem. And being a person who hardly understands poems, I can understand the yawning souynds people make when … Continue reading →

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What is Asset Allocation?

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Ranjan

Asset Allocation (AA) sounds sophisticated, no? It assumes you have an asset to allocate and gives a boost to your ego, eh! Looks like a smart and sexy word for a thing as drab and dreary as planning your personal … Continue reading →

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Why this Blog?

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Ranjan

Money is a bad master but a good servant. Whatever it is for you, it needs good management anyway. Personal finance is the management of your money. Management of your money is obstructed by persistent (and sometimes annoying)agents and financial … Continue reading →

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Visit my Blog

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Ranjan

Visit my blog Weblog on Finance and Business. It is a storehouse of info on finance and business.

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