Financial Planning: A Ready Reckoner

Planning one’s finances to tide over future needs-children’s education, life after retirement, etc.-is a primary concern of many people. However, bewildering investment alternatives that are currently available and mathematical rigour make this activity daunting for many. Besides these, sane advice is often missing!

Financial Planning is meant for lay investors, financial planners and students pursuing courses on financial planning. It simplifies financial mathematics to enable an investor map financial goals that she would like to achieve. The book includes solved problems on retirement planning and over 350 questions and answers on time value of money. Besides these, it dwells on mutual funds and other investment products that are currently available. The book also discusses the process of constructing and revising a financial plan on the basis of an investor’s financial goals.

The author has been counseling numerous investors on financial planning and brings to the book a distillate of her rich experience. Call it sane advice!