Download a free spreadsheet Mutual Fund Portfolio Growth Visualizer With Index Benchmarking. This will allow you to compare the growth of your mutual fund portfolio with a variety of BSE and NSE benchmark indices. This was to compare my retirement equity portfolio with Sensex and Nifty Next 50. Now it is your turn! Along with the sheet,…
Continue reading →When the personal financial audit 2017 was published, I had discussed how my equity retirement portfolio has grown with time and also mentioned that a tool with which you can do the same is on the works. It is now nearly complete. In this post, I use the tool and compare my equity mutual fund portfolio (retirement)…
Continue reading →Re-assemble is a series on the basics of money management aimed at beginners and young earners. So far we have covered 8 steps and completed the basic financial fortification process. Now we are all set to move on to investing – with a clear purpose. In step 9 of re-assemble, I have a few questions…
Continue reading →We buy health insurance in the hope that it would come to aid in the time of need. Many people do not have a personal health insurance policy because they rely on their corporate health insurance or a group cover. The assumption is that corporate health insurance claims are unlikely to be rejected as the…
Continue reading →Every time a young investor reads John Bogle or Warren Buffett’s statements on low-cost index funds, they want to know if index investing will work in India? if in the long run index funds will outperform actively managed mutual funds, should I not switch to an index fund? I recently showed how the Nifty Next…
Continue reading →Here is a list of suggested New Year Resolutions for Investors based on three principles: imbibe the basis, implement it as soon as possible and ignore the noise. To me, personal finance is nothing more than common sense. And common sense is nothing but mathematics expressed in a spoken language. Before I started the blog,…
Continue reading →On 4th January 2008, the Nifty Next 50 index (then Nifty Junior) closed on 13069.35. We now know that was the end of the last great “true” bull run. On Dec 31st, 2008, the index closed at 5443.11. An incredible fall of over 58% in a year. The Sensex/Nifty peaked four days later on 8th…
Continue reading →I discuss the factors to consider before purchasing a personal accident insurance policy. The key being to understand the insurers definition of what an accident is, and when a personal accident insurance policy will come into force. This is step 8 of Re-assemble – a series on the basics of money management aimed at young…
Continue reading →Here is a set of slides from the DIY investor meets that hopefully might convince you that there is more to investing than getting high returns. That is, a return above inflation (called a real return) is only one side of the investing coin. Consider some product or a service or a fee that costs 10L today….
Continue reading →Looks like mutual fund star ratings are useful for something after all! To understand how much you lose via commissions, study the difference between the star rating of the direct plan (no commissions) and regular plan (where commissions are removed from your investment value before NAV is reported – because what you can’t see cannot hurt…
Continue reading →“How much medical insurance I need?” can be answered in two ways: (a) as much as you can afford and (b) 50 lakhs to one crore. Naturally, option (b) is not only scary but also not affordable. Hence we all need a corpus of medical expenses to handle increasing medical costs, fund our lifestyle diseases…
Continue reading →In this post, Niten Kapoor discusses how he selected a health insurance policy. In my previous article on health insurance, I had invited readers to compare policies as guest posts. Niten agreed to write about how he compared policies and selected one. This is part of Re-assemble – a series on the basics of money management…
Continue reading →This is an account of how a member of Facebook group Asan Ideas for Wealth(AIFW), – let us call her Jenna – got her money back after a failed credit card payment with the help group admin Ashal Jauhari and the banking ombudsman. Although the circumstance of the failed transaction discussed below is not common,…
Continue reading →Each December I take stock of how well my goal-based investment is moving along (or is it?) Since 2013, I have been publishing these audits. Here is this years edition with some analysis of my retirement and sons-education goals. The only reason I am sharing this is to advertise the benefits of goal based investing. Kindly do…
Continue reading →Readers may be aware that in September 2017 I had introduced a handpicked list of mutual funds and called it PlumbLine to accompany the freefincal robo advisory template. While we are still waiting for AMCs to fall in line after SEBI announced its mutual fund classification rules, this month, I present the funds in table form for…
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