In this edition of “reader story”, K. V. Krishnan lists five simple actions by which he simplified his financial life to focus on building wealth.

In this edition of reader story, Kannan Hariharan describes his financial journey from humble beginnings to buying a house, becoming debt-free and starting as a goal-based DIY investor. His journey has several lessons on home-buying and goal-based investing.

In this edition of reader story, Kaustubh Prasad shares his lessons and insights from tracking expenses for the last 25 years!

In this reader story, Suresh Murugan shares the lessons he learned after meeting an accident on the way back from his marriage

In this reader story edition, Vinay Rai discusses how he got his finances in order and charted his own money course

“Reader story” is a series where we feature the money management journey of freefincal readers. This week Rakesh Gurbani explains how he got his life in order and is ready to take on his financial goals with confidence. You can access the full archive of all past posts. If you are interested in sharing your story,…

This week on reader story, Shashank Bisen talks about his mutual fund investing journey. Reader story is a series where freefincal readers talk about how they have managed money over the years and how their approach and attitude has changed. You can access the full archive of all past posts. If you are interested in…

Most of us would take an instant liking to those who ask intelligent, logical questions. If they are (much) younger than you, it is also both exhilarating and inspiring at the same time. Sandeep Bondili is one such young earner from the Facebook group, Asan Ideas for Wealth. Impressed by his approach to money management, I…

Happy holi! In this guest post, Pratik Jain discusses the issues and problems a typical young investor fresh out of college faces. You may remember Pratik from his previous post on How to do Online KYC via ETMoney to start investing in Mutual Funds. I am so thrilled that young people less than 25 take an…

Many 35-40+ investors face a crisis: they realise need for equity in the portfolio but have a huge fixed income corpus. In this guest post, Ananth, a member of FB group, Asan Ideas for Wealth discusses how one can handle this problem. Ananth made this important observation in response to this video: I started investing late,…

This is a guest post by Butun Mohapatra. When he posted his experience with a SEBI registered fee-only financial planner at FB group, Asan Ideas for Wealth, Vivek Vishwanathan suggest that it be published here. Butun immediately agreed and turned in a draft in just a few hours! Let us find out what Butun wants us…

This is a guest post by one of the earliest freefincal readers, Anish Mohan.  In 2001, Anish, a profound believer in Swami Vivekananda abandoned his romance for communism and took up a job in the Indian software industry, where he witnessed the good days of post-liberalisation era, punctuated with events of the 2008 global crash. In…