Archive for the 'Financial Planning' Category

FY 2011-12 Investment Overview

FY 2011-12 was the first year when I started investing in something other than my immediate business and I am happy to report, that I managed to actually beat it slightly. Though I did end up with far less cash reserves than what I had hoped for and for that matter, had, at the end [...]

Investing in Liquid Funds, my experience

My experiment of investing in Liquid Funds for short duration has come to an end and it is time to share my experience, and also the profit I have managed to make in the last month or so. Firstly, I would like to say that I did change the experiment somewhat in the middle and [...]

Liquid Fund Investment, 13 day update

It’s been 13 days since I invested my money in a Liquid Fund, not only to make a little extra from an amount which was sitting in my saving bank account, but also to learn, whether or not I can make Liquid Funds a part of my overall investment strategy. Till now the experience has [...]

Liquid Funds, good short term investment?

I have been thinking about the usefulness of Liquid Funds, ever since I heard about them last year (that is when I started paying attention to financial planning and investment) and to me they seemed like a nice way to make a few extra bucks in short term, without risking the capital and still being [...]

Penny saved, is a penny earned!

“Penny saved, is a penny earned!” I cannot help but feel, how true this saying is today, when I try and calculate how much I am now saving each month, thanks to finally paying off my credit card debt (finally did that couple of months ago). While the most apparent positive impact of completely paying [...]