personal finance Category

Find out whether you need a house or not in 60 seconds

on 12 Feb, 2007 in Excel Tips, personal finance | 0 Comments

Most of my classmates and friends have started purchasing houses. This coupled with the fact that I am in coveted DINK (double income no kids) group now have prompted me to do some preliminary research on buying a house. In my quest few things became obvious,

Any house worth its tiles costs more than a million [...]

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Creating New MFs - the SBI way

on 7 Dec, 2006 in personal finance | 0 Comments

Mutual fund companies often develop this compulsive urge to launch a new product, but sadly mutual funds are one of the boring financial services and all most all of them do one of the following four:

Retain your capital and provide liquidity
Give returns at risk free rate by investing in longterm governament bonds etc. [...]

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Howto: Excel Based Mutual Fund Portfolio Tracker

on 13 Nov, 2006 in Excel Tips, personal finance | 2 Comments

Instead of searching for the NAVs of all my funds at MyIRIS or MutualFundsIndia, I have developed a small excel sheet which will fetch the values for me and displays the current portfolio value at the click of a button. Here I am trying to share the “HOWTO” of the same.

Create an excel workbook [...]

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Relationships & Banks

on 27 Sep, 2006 in advertising, banking, personal finance | 0 Comments

Banks and relationships are as old a pair as slice bread and butter knife. I can imagine my grand father getting shivers allover when he deposited bulk of his first salary in the bank wondering all he was left with was a stupid passbook with illegible numbers on it. The point is days have changed! [...]

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