Wednesday, 26 December 2012

How to get personal financial planning right?

It is very important to plan your financial future well these days unless you have unlimited flow of income throughout your life span. Now when it comes to personal financial planning most of us are not aware of that or consider tax planning to be personal financial planning. However, the truth lies on the other side and it is much more than that. When you want your financial planning to get materialized, you are talking about your financial roadmap where you want your long term as well as short term financial goals to be met and your investments grow as high as you had planned.
Personal financial planning is not an easy task as it might seem to you at first instance. Though still today, people in our country don’t believe in hiring any certified financial planner to do personal financial planning correctly for them and think that whatever decisions they are taking are correct. It might be correct in some of instances but in most of cases, your minor mistakes can do blunders to your financial roadmap. A certified financial planner knows what is best for you and he will always give you unbiased review and feedback of financial products. You might get tempted to put all of your eggs in one basket but again any knowledgeable and experienced financial planner. He will strictly tell you not to do it as you never know when there would be recession in any particular segment. A segment doing so well currently can perform very badly in next quarter. Thus, when you are doing your personal financial planning to get things right, it is very important to do it in a professional manner and it must be made sure that your financial portfolio should be as diversified as you can have so that your investments are immune to any de-growth.
Another important aspect of personal financial planning is that you should be planning not only towards long term and short term financial goals but also towards meeting any unplanned contingencies. You never know when you have to face bad times and you should be always ready to confront and see through any personal or financial emergency. For this, it is recommended to setup a separate account where you are putting money to cope up with financial disasters.
It is very important in personal financial planning that you should review your financial goals on a timely basis. Plans or funds which were good investment options might not be so after couple of years. Thus, you have to adopt a dynamic personal financial planning approach if you want to ensure high returns on your investment. Your financial portfolio should be mix of both debt and equity as it has been seen over years that at  any given point of time, either of one sector performs well. It is very hard to predict which sector would be performing well, so it is advised to keep your investment in both so that you reap the benefits of accumulated average high returns.

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