The following is an excerpt of a conversation I had with Certified Financial Planner Sumeet Vaid about a ‘Financial Health Check Up’ questionnaire Financial Planners use to determine the state of their client’s finances. I went through the standard questionnaire with Vaid. Do you take on debt as a speculative action or for a...
A Financial health check-up is the starting point, to determine the state of your finances. In this conversation with Sumeet Vaid, Founder and MD, Freedom Financial Planners, I talked about the list of questions that would help you get a better picture of your investments, your state of debt, and the condition of your financial...
It has been a while since I updated the website and a lot has happened in the meantime. Financial Planner, a personal finance show which I produce and host has been received with great feedback. I also bump into a lot of people who ask me if there was some place where they could...
The night of December 2nd-3rd, 1984 should have been a regular winter night for the hundreds of thousands of residents in the Indian city of Bhopal. Many Bhopalis ( as the residents of the city are called) snuggled under their blankets (if they could afford them) while mothers held their babies close to keep...
It’s like a voice from beyond the crypt, I am sure! But, just wanted to say I have been away from indiejourno for way too long! I just moved to Mumbai and as you can all imagine what that might be like. Exciting, exhausting and completely chaotic. But I promise to have more updates…including...
LONG ISLAND CITY – This summer, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will get a taste of Queens, in the form of LIC’s Cake and Shake, serving all-organic cupcakes, milkshakes and premium coffee from a solar-powered cart parked outside the museum. “The Met is a global destination,” says co-owner Gina Ojile. “People come...
For residents of Astoria concerned about the recent spate of crime in the area, the 114th Precinct had a reassuring message on Tuesday — “Don’t worry. Everything is under control.” At a packed community council meeting on Tuesday, deputy inspector Paul Vorbeck of the 114th Precinct and his colleagues briefed the community on steps...
Sixty-three-year-old Mary Peters was just looking forward to a quiet Easter weekend with her son and two grandchildren. But on April 3, that feeling was shortlived as a bullet whizzed into her first floor apartment in Latimer Gardens, a city-owned housing development in Flushing. The bullet shattered her kitchen’s upper window and narrowly missed...
Residents of Norwood Gardens in Astoria have been advised to keep a close check on their cars and GPS, after a rash of auto break-ins has made them nervous about leaving anything valuable in their cars. Residents report that areas around 35th, 36th and 37th streets at 30th Avenue have been the worst affected,...
With so much personal information floating around the Internet, managing an online reputation can be a challenge, especially for people looking for a job or hoping for a promotion. Professional networking sites like LinkedIn have helped people manage their reputations by allowing them to post tightly controlled professional profiles–on LinkedIn, users can request recommendations...