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 W line that runs from Astoria, Queens, to Manhattan's South Ferry is the quintessential middle child. It has trouble attracting attention and competes with its three other siblings, the N, Q, and R lines. The elimination of the Astoria part of the "W" line drew howls of protest from local commuter, but what...
On any given day, you would find day worker Jose Manuel at Hart Park, 69th at 37th Avenue, Jackson Heights. The painter from Mexico comes to the park each morning hoping to be picked up for work. On Tuesdays, a mobile soup kitchen run by St. John's Bread and Life provides him and his...
Peer into any chick-lit lover’s bookshelf and you might spot the obligatory Bridget Jones’ Diary, The Devil Wears Prada and the terrifyingly titled Skinny Bitch. Page after soppy page details the travails of heroines who stumble and bumble through their diets, makeovers and professional lives—only to emerge skinny, chic, successful and finally with that...
The Tiger saga continues to play out like a train wreck on a car wreck. In the third biggest endorsement loss this month, Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer has dropped Tiger Woods from their marketing campaign.
Tony Karon's new Time Magazine defiantly denounces President Obama's call for a troop escalation. Its title, Five Flawed Assumptions of Obama's Afghan Surge, says it all, and the piece itself summarizes concisely points that this site and many others have been arguing for months: Expanding the ground war against the Taliban will in no way...
'Tis the Nobel season anyways, and while we are yakking up Obama and his Nobel Peace Prize, here is another winner. Albeit for economics, and from another year. Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 for his work in welfare economics. While I have never had the stomach to digest...
New York has 132,000 Korean Americans, yet none have been elected to the New York City Council, the State Legislature or any statewide office. "We still haven't found a sense of urgency to get involved in politics," says Kevin Kim, of the Korean American Community. So, is this tiny ethnic community losing out in...