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Coffee With Sundar on Personal Finance
Written by Ranjan   

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.

 

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What are exchange traded funds etf and how they are different from Mutual Funds
Written by Ranjan   

The following article has been reprinted with permission from PersonalFn

In the domestic context, despite having been in existence for a while, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have never quite captured the investor’s imagination. This is in contrast to the scenario in markets like the U.S. where ETFs are quite popular. ETFs do have a bit of a history in India. For example, we had a close-ended fund i.e. Morgan Stanley Growth Fund (launched in 1994) which was listed and traded on the stock exchanges. Year 2001 saw the launch of India’s first open-ended, passively-managed ETF, Nifty Benchmark Exchange Traded Scheme (Nifty BeES). Since then several ETFs of different varieties have been introduced. In this article, we discuss the investment proposition offered by ETFs and how they differ from conventional mutual funds.

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India's first eBook on personal finance: Monday is Moneyday
Written by Ranjan   
Personal Finance is a "threatening" concept and most people phase out when money/ savings/ investing/ tax/ stocks/ insurance/ funds are discussed. After tackling them over the last one year on my blog and website , I hope to construct an easy-to-digest, friendly e-book that people want to read and understand!
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Top Five Equity Linked Saving Schmes (ELSS) which also save Tax
Written by Ranjan   

Rajesh Soni takes a look at the top 5 tax saving Mutual Funds for the purpose of claiming tax benefits under Sec. 80C of Income Tax Act. He has analysed them on their returns as well as the risk profile (standard deviation)

Hop on to his blog for all the details and analysis

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Indians prefer keeping 65% savings in the Banks
Written by Ranjan   
A recent nationwide survey reveals that most Indians prefer keeping 65 percent of their savings in liquid assets like bank or post office deposits and cash at home, while investing 23 percent in physical investments like real estate and gold and only 12 percent in financial instruments.

For getting secure return on their earning, 51 percent of Indians put their savings in the banks while 36 percent of households still prefer to keep cash at home. The investment in post offices and other guaranteed return schemes and plans gets minor part of total savings. Only 5 percent of family put their money in post offices, while 2 percent buy insurance policies and 0.5 percent invests in equities.
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