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Reality of Financial Planning Knowledge and Perception

January 31, 2013 5 Comments

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So far we have written articles like What is Personal Finance, care for our money,  spending Money on self improvement, finding a balance between earning and spending and not missing good opportunities to spend. They were all fundamental money management related articles. Here’s another one from our guest Mayank Gupta.

Financial Planning

What is Financial Planning

Financial Planning is nothing but making a plan for your future financial goals like retirement planning, child, marriage and others and managing your hard earned money in a way that you are able to achieve them. Managing money includes investing money in right asset classes and spending money keeping in mind the pre-set limit. A lot of people might or might not be aware of this financial planning knowledge. Let’s have a reality check and see:

Reality Check

Lack of knowledge and perplexity regarding the character of corporate expansion and risk/return tradeoffs is not only universal among those charged with increasing venture value, or reviewing investment returns in vision of connected risks. Finance professionals and scholars also fight back to remain beached in these ideology.Now coming to the reality check for Financial Planning Knowledge, there was a census taken that had appalling outcome. The census included 96 people, and the following was the result.

The mainstream of the persons placed themselves in “Much above the average” and “Above Average” category. Hence 60% of sum aspirant and only 40% people placed themselves “Below average” or “No Knowledge at all”. However reality is that around 80% of the people are below Average and just 20% will be on pinnacle of average with a handful really way over the average. A vast chunk has to be below average, but for the most part of them have put themselves about average.

No matter what the subject matter, question stimulates people’s philosophy. It creates prospect for different views to be aired and allow people to think many influences before making up their own minds on exacting topics.

For those of you that are novel to the business, it’s a chance to study and increase your current knowledge of where the business has come from and where it’s going. Many of us may even develop into important provision to the future course of the industry as you add knowledge and expand your careers. Starting to put together your understanding now will place you in good stead in the upcoming times.

Reasons That Can be Thought of For Such a Result

There can be a set of reasons clearing up this output. We can surely not point out the reason for such extensive misinterpretation among the crowd, but we can certainly analyse it. Here are a small number of of them:

  1. Conceit and overestimation of their information. For example, they will dispute about why not to take Term Insurance, but they are not acquainted with that they are incorrect.
  2. No idea about where others belong in the group.
  3. They undervalue the procedure of Financial Planning; they believe that they can do it well.

Explanation for it

  1. As we are aware about the rat race in the present situation is lashing every other person to thrust uphill. This up thrust is approaching them to believe something they are not. This belief makes them experience better and hence overconfidence and overestimation environs them. They want to bend the World around them according to themselves, which leads them to the incorrect choice.
  2. Individuals are more self-surrounded than act together with others. Even if they come transversely someone above their cerebral strength, their pride makes them trip over that individual. This state of mind is incessantly gives them incorrect response and idea about the World around them, and hence they misplace their insight.
  3. The procedure of Financial Planning is not a child’s play. It’s not steady, and need everyday updating of information. Hence only the person who has much knowledge and frequently deals in such, has improved know how of the field.

Effect of This Thinking

Most of the people live in the faith that Financial Planning is something they can do themselves without any profession help and hence muddle it up at the end. They do not appreciate the objective of Financial Planning.

It causes stoppage in the Financial Planning and hence causes circumstances to become worse. They don’t get better “financial planning advice” because of this. They don’t appreciate how to figure out if a Financial Product suits them or not. on the whole it’s a contrast between “Thinking” Vs “Reality”.

So why Financial Planning?

To sum up the points discussed above, a small number of significant grounds why Financial Planning is required in association:

Financial Planning aids in

  • Envisioning the short-term and long-term goals
  • lashing presentation
  • gathering and over achieving Internal and external prospect
  • Timely recognition and alteration of financial or functioning concerns
  • Understanding the grounds for variances to prospects
  • Strategic analysis
  • Identifying chances and providing choice support to take advantage of them

The above article is contributed by Mayank Gupta, a finance guy, who writes on national pension scheme and long-term capital gains tax and provides financial planning services to clients

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  1. Nunzio Bruno says

    February 1, 2013 at 1:24 PM

    Interesting post – especially when you mentioned peoples ability to argue about financial products and that they may not understand the underlying fundamentals that went into creating them. Full disclosure – my Master’s Degree is in Financial Planning. I agree with a lot of the functions of a financial planner that you outlined but believe the role to be more of a facilitator. The truth of the matter is that diverse people have diverse family situations and circumstances to plan for. The financial planner is supposed to be the resource to help develop the strategy, pick the products, and create the plan that helps their clients reach their goals. With as little waste, risk, and as much utility (can be read profit or return) as possible. I think the hurdles come from the ease of the availability of the information which isn’t a bad thing but it’s also why you don’t use WebMD to try to self diagnose and treat for really serious stuff.

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  2. Nunzio Bruno says

    February 1, 2013 at 1:27 PM

    Interesting post – especially when you mentioned peoples ability to argue about financial products and that they may not understand the underlying fundamentals that went into creating them. Full disclosure – my Master’s Degree is in Financial Planning. I agree with a lot of the functions of a financial planner that you outlined but believe the role to be more of a facilitator. The truth of the matter is that diverse people have diverse family situations and circumstances to plan for. The financial planner is supposed to be the resource to help develop the strategy, pick the products, and create the plan that helps their clients reach their goals. With as little waste, risk, and as much utility (can be read profit or return) as possible. I think the hurdles come from the ease of the availability of the information which isn’t a bad thing but it’s also why you don’t use WebMD to try to self diagnose and treat for really serious stuff. 🙂

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  3. Integrator says

    February 5, 2013 at 5:52 PM

    Financial planning is critically important. I think its something that everyone should have some ability to do on their own, but many people don’t have the discipline or interest to do it themselves. That’s where it makes a lot of sense to meet with a financial planner to get your finances in order initially. Once you are more comfortable with your finances, you can proactively manage things yourself.

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  4. Shawn James @ PipsToday says

    February 6, 2013 at 2:23 AM

    I am strongly agree with you regarding the following statement “Reality is that around 80% of the people are below Average and just 20% will be on pinnacle of average with a handful really way over the average.” Similar result came out in a recent survey regarding “Financial planning and awareness about it”.

    However, it may be reverse in Canada because they celebrate FINANCIAL LITERACY MONTH each year on the month of NOVEMBER. Therefore they are more financial literate.

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  5. Paul @ The Frugal Toad says

    February 9, 2013 at 12:32 PM

    Interesting statistic and alarming when the evidence of financial literacy does not support those numbers. In this case what you don’t know can hurt you.

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