Retirement Planning with AutoGPT: The Informal Future of Investment Advisory

AutoGPT is an open-source Python code using Open AI’s GPT4. Unlike ChatGPT, which requires human intervention at every step, AutoGPT can “self-prompt” and find additional information from its knowledge base or the web (depending on the application). It is supposed to be a step towards artificial general intelligence. They are also referred to as Task-Driven Autonomous…

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Equity Mutual Fund Screener April 2023: Shortlist consistent performers

The latest freefincal Equity Mutual Fund Performance Screener is now available. Use it to screen for consistently performing equity mutual funds. You can screen based on fund category & benchmark and spot mutual funds with a higher return than a benchmark at a lower risk. Inside, you get discounted links to our robo advisory tool…

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Why are you against using Sovereign Gold Bonds in an investment portfolio?

An angry reader writes, “I searched all your articles on gold and found that you have repeatedly recommended against using Sovereign Gold Bonds in an investment portfolio. Why is this so? They are tax-free when held to maturity, and you get extra interest. No other gold instrument has these features, yet you are against this….

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44-year Sensex return is 17%, but half of that came from just four years!

It is widely recognized that stock market returns tend to be clustered, with significant gains followed by years of disappointment. In this article, we examine the yearly and monthly returns of the Sensex from April 1979 and demonstrate that the annualized return after 44 years is primarily determined by just a handful of successful years/months….

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