The idea of passive income excites many of us. However, very few can get significant passive income. In this article, we discuss the reasons for such failure and present a passive income template that can be used to build a lifelong income. We shall restrict ourselves to building an online passive income. Why many of…
Continue reading →These are the freefincal handpicked list of mutual funds for July-Sep 2021. New and old investors can use it according to their specific needs. The list is called “PlumbLine” and was started in Sep 2017 for beginners to accompany the freefincal robo advisory template. Most important! Plumbline is a mix of my opinions + skin…
Continue reading →In this article, we review a new index from NSE. The Nifty Microcap 250 Index has 250 companies beyond the Nifty 500, with weights determined in terms of free-float market capitalization. That is, any stock part of the Nifty 500 will not be part of this new index. Companies ranked within the top 1000 based…
Continue reading →In this article, we review ICICI Prudential Flexicap Fund, an open-ended dynamic equity scheme investing across large cap, mid cap & small cap stocks. The NFO period of this fund is between June 28, 2021, to July 12, 2021. Why ICICI Prudential Flexicap Fund? As usual, some history is necessary to establish context. Prior to…
Continue reading →This week, we review Quant Small Cap Fund, which saw a 32844% increase in its AUM between March 2020 and May 2021! Almost all of its current AUM of Rs. 504 crore came during this period! The fund has delivered 178.5% returns in the last year, but what is baffling is, the increase in AUM…
Continue reading →Neils Bohr, one of the founding fathers of quantum physics, said, ”If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” The same is true of retirement planning. When you sit down to do a retirement calculation for the first time, it should shock you. If it does not, you are probably making…
Continue reading →There are several misconceptions surrounding debt mutual fund selection. We shall discuss a couple of them in this article. Many investors believe dynamic bond funds are better than gilt mutual funds because of active fund manager calls on the portfolio’s duration. Investors also believe that corporate bond funds (or banking and PSU funds) are less…
Continue reading →A reader who wishes to be anonymous wanted to know the corpus need to retire in India by age 45. Before we get down to the calculation, “retire by 45” requires some clarification. This means goodbye to regular employment, to a salaried job. This does not mean the person will sit around all day doing…
Continue reading →This is a list of mutual funds that gained the most in AUM after the March 2020 market crash. To ensure we account for the fund inflow and not the fund returns, we compare the NAV and AUM on March 31st 2020 and May 31st 2021 and subtract the percentage change in NAV from the…
Continue reading →In this article, we discuss why it does not make sense to invest in an index fund that does not track the top 100 stocks or lesser weighted by market capitalization. In other words, not all index funds are the same! We shall not discuss ETFs here as they come with their own problems of…
Continue reading →We are living in the era of a pandemic, which has altered the way we used to look at insurance. Most Indians perceived insurance as an ‘investment’ or tax-saving instrument earlier, but the pandemic has made us realize the importance of protection. About the author: Vivek Sulegai is a SEBI Registered Investment Adviser and member of…
Continue reading →In this article, we review Quant Active Fund, which seems to have caught the attention of young DIY investors. Why has it caught the attention of investors? Returns! It is always returns! And in particular the last one year return, without any regard to the fund’s history. Quant Active Fund has delivered 96.1% returns in…
Continue reading →This is a debt mutual fund screener for fund selection, fund portfolio tracking and learning. It also includes hybrid funds that invest in bonds. It will satisfy investors who wish to invest in money market funds, banking and PSU funds etc. The credit quality of the bonds in the portfolio and the bond maturity profile…
Continue reading →You may have come across articles in your news and discover feeds on “how to become a crorepati with PPF”. There is only one reason such articles get written: for traffic. “PPF” in itself is an attention grabber. Add the emotional hook “crorepati” to it then it is a magical combination. It is possible to…
Continue reading →This is my monthly retirement stock portfolio analysis compared with an equivalent investment in a Nifty index fund. I have finally been able; to compute the annualized return (XIRR) of the portfolio after considering all corporate actions like dividends, splits etc. However, before we begin, investors need to appreciate the context of these investments. I…
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