It has been seven months since I started lazy stock investing. These are five stock portfolios based on NSE indices. Their current status is reported in this post. Three of them are based on smart beta (active + passive) indices and two on a passive index. The main aim is to find out how effective … Continue reading Seven months of lazy stock investing! Dec 2018 Update
Eight ways to combine Nifty Next 50 with active funds
Interest in the Nifty Next 50 (NN50) has increased over the last couple of years due to its fantastic track record against many diversified equity mutual funds: Nifty Next 50: The Benchmark Index That No Mutual Fund Would Touch?! However, the NN50 is a volatile index with a huge peak to low falls (drawdown). So naturally, investors … Continue reading Eight ways to combine Nifty Next 50 with active funds
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Pure Fee-only Advisors are Growing in Number! Your support is the reason!
On Dec 9th, 2018, Fee-Only India, a community of SEBI registered pure fee-only advisors met in Bangalore (pictures below). As patrons of fee-only financial planning, they invited Ashal and me. This is the third fee-only meet and the second this year. The first was in Sep 2017 at Mumbai, the second in March at Hyderabad. It … Continue reading Pure Fee-only Advisors are Growing in Number! Your support is the reason!
NPS has EEE (tax free) Status! Here is why you should still not invest
The union cabinet today has cleared five changes to the national pension scheme (NPS). The most important of which is that the NPS now has EEE status and the corpus that you can withdraw is tax-free. EEE means, that the money you invest in the scheme (up to a limit) is exempt income tax (1st … Continue reading NPS has EEE (tax free) Status! Here is why you should still not invest
