Best websites and resources for financial advice

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Which are the best websites, blogs, books, magazines and people you have come across for financial planning and advice?

(One recommendation per answer please!)

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PersonalFn.com is a pretty old player and have good calculators and articles. Its a proper personal finance company.

They have monthly Money Simplified newsletter which comes free. Recently they have come out with Tax Planning Guide.

Also they have paid services for Mutual Fund Portfolio Service and Financial Planning.

Investmentyogi is another company in personal finance space.

They too have paid financial planning packages. Other services they offer are portfolio management and tracking, Online tax return filing, calculators and finance related articles.

Raagvam Datt is also a blogger who writes personal finance and income tax related articles.
He also offers paid financial planning services.

MoneySights is a new player in this space. Usability of the site is awesome. Stocks/MF basic and individual view is really good. They have a pretty clean view/analysis of important data like 52 week high/Strength/Potential etc.

Visual tour for the their upcoming product looks promising. Its much more than what Perfios, Intuit/Mint and others have to offer. Recommendations and alternatives from portfolio itself looks unique concept.

Outlook Money magazine is probably the best magazine on personal finance. Rs. 550 a year on a one year subscription is well worth the money.

Not to forget MoneyControl.com, probably the biggest website in this space. Their stock news, portfolio manager and MF recommendations are all excellent.

Best and unbiased resource on latest news and articles is MoneyLife by Sucheta Dalal

They have monthly subscription for their magazine too.

Ranjan Varma writes on his blog about money and personal finance.

Another promising blog recently started is SmartSingh. They are making finance easy & fun.

TaxGuru is an older site with so many articles. They appear in Google search results too often.

CA Club India is the best forum to discuss taxation and other legal matters with experts and professionals.

TaxWorry is also an older blog for taxation queries.

Another promising startup is Paisa.com. They have portfolio tracker, watchlist and other stock market research tools.

ITrust is another company in finance space. They have been recently acquired by Karvy.

Just came around Bodhik. A good well rounded financial Advice. Belongs to the new breed of Robo Advisors. You need to have guts to work out with a robo advisor though.

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