From the monthly archives:

March 2012

How to plan Your Retirement

Posted by Gopal Gidwani in Financial Planning on March 25th, 2012

Goal Based Financial Planning – Building a Retirement FundSandeep is a 28 year old guy staying with wife Karuna and 1 year old son Praveen. Sandeep is a fitness freak; he goes for a jog everyday early morning in a garden near his house. One day after a jog, he was relaxing on a bench. [...]

How to build a Marriage Fund for your Child’s Marriage

Posted by Gopal Gidwani in Financial Planning on March 24th, 2012

Goal Based Financial Planning – Building a Marriage FundArjun is a 30 year computer engineer staying with wife Tina and two year old son Ganesh. In office, Arjun was recently approached by his supervisor Ramesh (aged 50 years) for financial help for his son’s marriage. Arjun bailed out his supervisor with a temporary loan and [...]

How to accumulate Gold for Daughter’s Wedding

Posted by Gopal Gidwani in Financial Planning ->Others ->Uncategorized on March 23rd, 2012

Goal Based Financial Planning – Building a Gold Fund Recently I saw a television advertisement of PCJ (PC Jeweller), a well known gold retailer. The advertisement shows a nuclear family and the little daughter enjoying the wedding photographs of her parents. The mother happily points at one of her wedding picture and tells the daughter [...]

Investing in Mutual Funds

Introduction Rajiv Menon is a 44 year old paedtrician who has been investing in different types of mutual funds since last few months on the basis of advice given by his friends. But Rajiv is not very sure of the difference in the types of funds that he has been investing in and is curious [...]

Group Buying Websites - Great Deals at Big Discounts

Posted by Gopal Gidwani in Financial Planning on March 6th, 2012

I am a food enthusiast and I love to dine out on the weekend. I am always on the lookout for dinning discounts on credit card statements, internet ads, in the newspapers, coupons, magazines, leaflets, vouchers and other media. A discount of 10-15% also excites me and I grab it. Some time back while surfing [...]