Depositing our pay cheques in bank and using the credit and ATM card for spending seems easy. However keeping the track of your income and expenses, to get full value for your money is possible only with budgeting. Budgeting helps most of us to keep track of our income and spending and not overspend.

In practice 10 budgeting myths retard the savings of a lifetime. They are:

1) I earn a lot and need not budget:

This requires a change of perspective. Michel Jackson lived like a king but died awash in $400 million debt. Budgeting by watching your spending pattern helps trace unnecessary     expenses on clothes or eating out, and help you save for a future or for a much wanted dream holiday.  So how much you earn has got less relevance. What is more important is budgeting. Proper budgeting can make a low income earner to retire richer and overspending can make a high income earner a pauper.

2) I hold a secure job and see no reason to save:

The Mckinsey report had said that the wealth in the emerging markets have grown 3 times more than the rates of assets in developed nations. Now here's a report that is specific about India. Indian wealth management has given a return of 18% against the global 9.7%.

The wealth management arm of the KARVY Group released the 2nd edition of its India Wealth Report today.

This Report studies patterns of individual investments across financial asset classes (excluding physical assets like gold and real estate) and finds that India's individual wealth is expected to nearly triple from the existing 86.5 lac crore to 249 lac crore by FY16. In fact, the wealth of India's HNIs has grown by over 18% compared to a mere 9.7% for global HNIs in the last one year.

Interestingly, the Report shows that fixed deposits & bonds has become the top contributor to overall wealth held by individuals in India, displacing last year's topper, direct equity, primarily due to the uncertainty in the financial markets.

Gaurav Mishra, has an insightful post on How is the social web disrupting the Agency ecosystem.Change is in the wind in the Indian financial advisors ecosystem too and there are a lot of lessons to be learnt from Gaurav’s post.

The most important question that Gaurav asks and which is relevant to the financial advisory ecosystem. The question is, I repeat, How to create influencer platforms and programs that work both online and offline?