With the lockdown set to impact almost all businesses for months to come, this is a guide to handle a sudden loss income

Here is why you should not be in a hurry to invest Rs. 1.5 lakh into PPF within the first five days of April!

If you had paid Rs. 66 for an item in 1980, it would cost Rs. 1000 today! Inflation constantly reduces our purchasing power. Here is how we can handle this risk.

Investor deposits are now protected up to Rs. five lakh person. This, however, does not mean your money is safe! Why a lot more has to be done to protect investor interests

What I learnt by investing for son’s future (education + marriage) for ten years in a combination of mutual funds and PPF

How I achieved financial independence by tracking investments and increasing them instead of micro-managing and tracking monthly expenses. You can download the investment tracker that I use.

This is my 2019 personal financial audit: How my portfolio has grown? How my investments have fared? Where am I with respect to my goals?

You might have seen financial advisors or bloggers like me chant repeatedly “invest with a goal”, “invest with a goal”. Have you ever wondered why? After all, many people regularly ask in financial forums, “I do not have a goal in mind, I just want to save or invest or build wealth, how should I…

The other day, I was in a get-together, and the topic of personal finance came up. One of them asked where to start. There was an inevitable chorus of “security analysis”, “intelligent investor” and the likes. There was also the litany of blogs that mindlessly parrot Buffettisms and Mungerisms with “investor” in their titles with…

Yes, NRIs can invest in PPF accounts that were opened when they were resident  Indians in 2020. They will get the same interest rate as everyone else. The confusion arose when the ministry of finance announced in October 2017 that subscribers should close their PPF accounts when they become non-residents. However, in a circular dated…