1. Hemant Beniwal’s new article: What Should Be Your Ideal Revenue Per Client? + Download Revenue Calculator This is written for financial planners. However it is equally interesting for individuals. Would you pay Rs. 30,000 f0r a financial plan plus annual review fee? If you won’t, the only option is to do it yourself. Financial planners will…

1.  Here is an excellent read for financial advisors. I strongly recommend individual investors to read it too. Why 97% of Your Clients Don’t Have Financial Goals and What to Do About It Have you checked out my  four-part series on goal-based investing? 2. The revised edition of Subra’s book, “Retire-Rich: Invest Rs. 40 a…

Personal Finance A fantastic guide to mutual fund investing: http://www.investing-in-mutual-funds.com/ Informative read: A Better Way To Analyze Portfolio Manager Performance Worried about the state of the market? Read: Risk is Not The Same as Volatility Parenting Would you like your child to watch something way better Chhota Bheem? Try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAo09ncyuUA This weeks calculator: Did…

PPFAS Long Term Value Fund has released its second factsheet It has a well diversified portfolio with about 11% international equity and 6% in debt. I am a big fan of a blog called the Simple Dollar. Here is an interesting read from there: Ten Simple Frugal Steps That Save Money Without Skipping a Beat…

  Bemoneyaware a popular and competent personal finance blogger interviewed me for her blog:  Meet Personal Finance Blogger : Pattu of FreeFinCal I have tremendous respect for her. This is what I wrote about Bemoneyaware on the occasion of woman’s day: Be Money Aware: A Unique Personal Finance Blog Like I mention in the interview, Bemoneyaware…

Who is the Warren Buffet of Hollywood? For my generation it is undoubtedly Steven Speilberg. Here is an extraordinarily inspiring ‘Actors Studio‘ interview with the man. This is a must-watch. If you have children (10+) make them watch this or better still watch it along with them. Unnecessary Trivia: I was in Berlin for a…

Here is a collection of articles, information and resources I encountered this week.   PersonalFn has been offering a mutual fund selection service for the last 10 years. It is currently offering this service at a price of Rs. 1,750 for 2 years and Rs. 1,000 for 1 year: Mutual Fund Portfolio Service  (This is…

Every semester whenever I teach a new set of students I suggest that they watch a youtube video titled: Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams  (click the link to read details on Wikipedia).   A dying professor tells his students and colleagues about how he achieved all his childhood dreams and how anyone can…

In a recent post on some changes to Freefincal, I had mentioned a desire to write about non-financial subjects.  I decided to revive my old blog, The Ground State – the trouble with being open-minded, and publish such posts there, so that Freefincal suffers from only one kind of neural diarrhea. Here is my first…