Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Useful Tips on Personal Finance

Personal finance is one of the most important kinds of management especially for house wife. However do not take it otherwise if you are a married man and helps out your wives in managing the finance of your house. However there are many tips which you or your wife must be lacking due to the scarcity of the knowledge. I do not assume that you both would be unaware about all the tips which I am going to list but I promise that once you will read this article then you will definitely find no problem in managing your financial home budget.

I would like to start with the children and let us see where I end.

Financial planning related to the children

As a father or mother you are fully responsible for managing your child's future and make sure that they have nothing to complain when they grow big. But the question arises that how can you do this. I do feel that when you will become the father or mother then you will learn by self all the tricks but I would definitely like to provide some tips for you. For example, you might have to take the education loan when your child grows big. However if you will plan the life of your child since his childhood then you will not have to think of the education loan.

You can always go for the mutual funds in the name of your child. For example you can invest 200$ every month and make sure that you fund matures as soon as your child come of age when he has to go for the higher education. The schooling too in US is quiet expensive but this happens after the high school. And in this time you can always save the required sum of money.

Financial planning related to your retirement

You might feel that your children will grow up till then and you do not need to think about it. But the question arises that why you do not plan your life as well if you are getting a decent salary. Believe me there is nothing harms in going for the retirement policies. Just take the example of the health insurance.

By the time you will grow old you will find that your health insurance is ready to serve for you. Even the life insurance will be a good option, not to forget the insurance policies provided by your company itself. I would just say that plan well in your early married life and enjoy for the rest of your life without any worries.

There are so many tips which you will see throughout the internet. But I personally feel that the above two are the most important tips which will make a loved parents as well as the person free from all the financial worries even during the period of retirement

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Student Loan for a Good Education

A student loan refers to a borrowing which is availed by an individual for financing his/her higher education. As we see the cost of education sky-rocketing with virtually no change in income, there is little that we can actually do, except opting for an educational loan. With the world economy not being in a very good shape, the demand for professional education is increasing day by day, in order to enable one self to keep pace with the requirements of time. Due to this reason, it is not very much of a surprise to find students lined up, for submitting applications for students loan.

Unlike what you may think, a student loan is not very much similar to the other loan options which are processed by the financial institutions. As it is, in most cases, the education loans are accompanied by easy terms and conditions. A primary reason for this is that it should suit the needs of the borrower.

A major feature of these education loans is that of low interest rates, which is quite helpful in bringing down the loan burden over the student. The loan amount can be used by the borrower for the payment of college fees, library fees, or even for purchasing books as well as other tools and equipments, which are required during the course of education of the borrower.

In many cases, the students also use this loan amount for bearing his/her own personal expenses. However, despite all its advantages and uses, one must never forget that it is after all a loan. It is therefore in the best interest of the borrower, to see to it, that he/she calculates, all the expenses pertaining to the loan, before he submits an application for an educational loan. As it is, the student can apply for both government as well as private institutions for the purpose of getting a Student loan. One can also go with online lending institutions, as well.

There are basically two kinds of Student loans; i.e. Secured Student loan and the Unsecured Student Loan. A secured student loan, is the one in which, the borrower offers some of the assets held by him in the form of collateral to a bank or lending institution, so as to avail; the loan. One of the most common instruments used in case of secured student loans is that of mortgage. Similarly an unsecured student loan is a borrowing in which the borrower does not need to offer any assets held by him in the form of collateral to the bank for securing a loan.

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