Suggest a topic

A lot of you reply to the daily emails with suggestions for posts, and I really appreciate that because it gives me post ideas, and I can write about stuff that is most relevant to you.

Normally, I take the gist of your suggestion; create a title of the post, and note it down on a virtual sticky note. But, the issue with this is that it is easy enough to miss an email, and sometimes the titles on the sticky notes don’t make any sense to me when I look at them later on.

So, I am creating a page here that is specifically for your suggestions for posts. You can leave a comment here suggesting an idea for a post, and if I know enough about the topic I will write about it.

That way we won’t lose track of anything you say, and if multiple people suggest the same topic for a post then I know that it should be written prior to moving on to other things.

Thanks for reading – and writing!

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  1. Hi Manshu

    I like your articles and feel they are very informative.
    Can you inform us on the following articles also:
    1. Best Indian Home loans rates -& impact on Income Tax
    2.Section 80DD -treatment expenses for family member for tax deductions
    3. Impact of Foreclosure of loans (any types) on loanee.
    4. How to file income tax online.

    regards

    Varsha

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    1. Thank you Varsha – a lot of suggestions in here, and I will try to cover as many as I can in the coming days. I think 1 will be a little difficult though because I’ve tried doing that once, and found that the data is not easily available.

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  2. i want to know about the indian government policies about the unemployment. what are they doing about it and how much they have done.

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    1. Milind – I don’t think I’ll be able to write on government policies on unemployment, and how effective they are because I’m not familiar enough with the topic. Sorry.

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  3. Hi

    Kindly let me know the important websites and blogsites addresses, who give information and articles about finance, tax, economy etc , without any motive behind it like what you are doing right now ,so that readers like me who want to learn finance through simple topics would be benefited.

    Thanks in advance.

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    1. I like to read Hindu Business Line, Business Standard for my news, and Business India is a very good magazine. Then there are a whole host of blogs that I read, but what I normally see is that when I do my weekly links post, there aren’t too many outgoing links from them, so I get the feeling that perhaps what I read myself is not so interesting to people who read this blog.

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  4. Kindy write a articel on the difference between IRR, Rate of interest and Effective Rate of Interest. If you apply for a loan in a bank ( particularly private sector banks ), they say interest rate in the name of IRR. But as far as I know, IRR is the rate of interest where your discounted cash inflows matches with cash outflows . If private sector banks say IRR, does it mean that they are selling without profit ?
    Please clarify

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  6. Manshu Sir
    You are doing a great job! I am a new reader of your blog and I just love it! Very simple language, almost all financial areas covered, personalised attention to every reader, simple web layout and above all….. YOUR HONESTY!
    Great going sir!
    It would be great if you can provide some info about PAYPAL VERIFICATION in india.
    Thanks for maintaining a superb blog!
    Regards
    Shreyansh Jain

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    1. Shreyansh – Thank you so much for your kind words, and a very happy new year to you!

      I did the verification a number of years ago, and have been a little out of touch, what with all the changes RBI has mandated, so I’m unable to write about this topic, sorry.

      I did find this article that looks good, so I hope this is a good start for you.
      http://indiapoint.net/ca/2010/04/23/using-paypal-in-india-and-verification-process/
      Once again, thanks for all your lovely words.

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    1. It’s a great topic Chirag, but I’m not knowledgeable enough about it to write something that will add to anything already available online. Sorry.

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  9. I want to understand how banks fix their lending rate of interests for various loans such as home loan, car loan, personal loan, etc. I sometimes here news about RBI fixing on lending rate of interests. In that case, how come it is different among banks? What is BPLR? and how does it relate to the banks lending rate? Please explain or provide some pointers to understand this.

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  10. wanted to suggest-which are best dividend paying stocks in india & how are there growth prospects? whether to buy that stocks for long term or not?

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    1. Thanks for your suggestion Vasim. I’ve seen a good post on this topic on the Tip Blog, and you can check it out here on this link:

      http://www.tipblog.in/stock-chat/dividend-paying-companies-india/

      As for recommendations on whether or not you should buy a particular stock – I don’t get into that at all because I don’t have the bandwidth or the competence to evaluate all these companies and see which one stands out amongst them.

      You can check out the post, and that should help you make an informed decision.

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  12. Hi Manshu,

    Could you please write about Income Tax calculations and where to invest for saving Income Tax. Is ELSS Funds are allowed for this year or what ? Please include some examples.

    Thanks
    khalid

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    1. Sure Khalid, I think ELSS are allowed for this year, and will only be disallowed from next year onwards. I think I’ll be able to get to it sometime the week after next.

      Thanks!

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  13. Hi Manshu,

    Could you please write about different online trading portals? Which is best in terms of service, tariff etc? Please include SBI in the list.

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    1. Yes, let me try my hands on that. The issue is probably that there is no good way to assess the service as different people have different experiences, but I’ll see what I can do. I still owe you the credit card article, so this after that one.

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  14. Hi Manshu
    Can you post something on Embedded value of a company, both through traditional and market consistent approach. I have seen these values being published by some rating agencies and also know that there are two approaches for calculation. I really would want to know how it is calculated and what is its significance in interpreting the fundamentals of a company.

    Thanks

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    1. I thought that was only used to evaluate insurance companies but I’ve not read a lot about this, so I may be wrong. Where did you come across a report that mentioned this? I’d be curious to take a look so I know we are talking about the same thing.

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    1. Hi Radhika,

      I tried looking up this info some time ago, but really didn’t make very much headway into it. I’ll try looking it up again, but I think the best I’ll be able is to point out other websites that have done such comparisons, as last time I felt like I didn’t have much to add beyond what they had already written.

      It will take a bit of time though….maybe a couple of weeks.

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      1. Actually, I was interested in knowing —
        1. how Debt Funds compare with Bank FD’s,
        2. what are different types of Debt Funds and
        3. some good Debt Fund products available in the market.

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        1. Okay, thanks for narrowing it down. Each point in your comment can be a post on its own, and I’ll write something on different types of debt funds next week.

          Thanks.

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    1. Thanks for your suggestion. I’ll try and write something up on this topic in the coming week. This measure was introduced to reduce volatility especially in the face of a special event after the close of market hours the previous day. I think a good recent example would be the N. Korean strikes on S. Korea which happened after the market closed. I’m not sure if Korea follows this mechanism or not, but that’s one thing that can cause the market to open with a big gap, and this system would help reducing the volatility in those kind of events.

      That’s a good suggestion!

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