Personal Money turns One!

Thank you readers, your favorite Personal Finance Blog, PersonalMoney.in completes one year!

Today, March 7, 2010 Personal Money has successfully stepped into its second year. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers for stopping by our site. It was a good first year where we had received excellent feedback from our readers.

I take this opportunity to present some of our articles published during the last one year that helped you to manage your personal money better. One such article was 10 Ways to Become Financially Wiser

The most popular Personal Money tool was the Income Tax calculator which we prepared as per prevailing Tax proposals. The latest tax calculator based on Budget 2010-11 proposals is available at Income Tax Impact Calculator – Budget 2010-11. Other personal tax articles also generated good response in terms of views, specially Income Tax deduction simplified.

At the start of 2010, we presented a list of Top 10 Mutual Fund (ELSS) schemes to save taxes which again was received very well by our readers. Our series of articles on Mutual Fund provided a ready reference to readers interested in investing their money in them.

Last year when every one was terrified with Credit Crisis even if they didn’t knew what it meant, we presented a simple explanation and tried to asses the Impact of global financial meltdown on us.

Cricket is indubitably the most popular sport in India. We shared very interesting analysis that correlates your investment and financial planning strategy with that of IPL T20 cricket game in IPL T20 and Investing – Interesting similarities

To our surprise, Retirement Planning articles also generated better than expected response. Considering the young reader profile of Personal Money, it was heartening to see that people are become aware and more responsive to the need of proper retirement planning. Some of our articles in this series worth mentioning are How to do effective retirement planning?, Portfolio diversification is the key for Retirement Planning and Plan for continued income flow post retirement

Many readers asked us to provide them details of ULIP investments. The sheer volume of request regarding information on ULIP prompted us to analyze and write about The ULIP euphoria – is it justified?. We also felt that a lot of our readers were cheated by agents. We shared the details of tactic used by these agents and tried to caution our readers through our article Is your agent mis-selling ULIPs to you?

We would also like to thank my co-bloggers Manish Misra and Madhur Batra as well as other blogger friends Mohammad Khalid of Bell the Bull, Manish Chauhan of Smart Investor and The TIP Guy of The Income Portfolio for their valuable suggestions and feedbacks.

Special thanks to our commenters who had actually motivated us to come up with more posts. We try to respond to your queries as soon as possible, however we apologize if your comments or requests sometimes are not met by us due to time constraints. From now on we will ensure to increase our response frequency a bit higher. So keep sending your comments, suggestions, queries to us.

Thanks once again to all our readers!