Health insurance is a tricky business. Unlike life insurance, a health insurance policyholder is likely to make multiple claims over a lifetime. This means health insurers have to be careful about who they insure else profits would suffer. However, if they are too strict, then again profits would suffer. The alternative is to share the…
Continue reading →The freefincal Equity Mutual Fund Performance Screener (October 2021) 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 two courses:…
Continue reading →Thanks to effective industry propaganda, many investors believe that mutual fund managers in the mid cap space can easily beat a mid cap benchmark. In this article, we bust this myth with rolling returns and trailing results comparison of active mid cap mutual funds with Nifty Midcap 150 TRI. First, let us compare trailing returns…
Continue reading →Abhishek asks, “Dear pattu sir, how many mutual funds are necessary to build a portfolio? I would like to build a long-term minimalistic but diversified portfolio”. Ironically, context is often the first casualty in personal finance discussions. If you go to Facebook group Asan Ideas for Wealth and announce, “I am holding ten mutual funds”,…
Continue reading →Many investors make the mistake of believing what seems logical will actually work in the stock market! Take the case of buying on market dips. Many believe if they invest a lump sum when the market has fallen, they would make more returns and consider this a form of market timing (it is not!). This…
Continue reading →In this article, let us discuss how much equity one should hold in an investment portfolio after early retirement and how will it differ from normal retirement. Equity exposure after retirement is a tricky business and requires careful consideration, the primary being, what is the retirees’ experience with capital markets? Today we have retirees mis-buying equity…
Continue reading →In this episode of how I increased my income, we meet a marketing associate who runs a dance school. Eager to try new things, she efficiently balances home, office, friends, family, and passion. About this series: We all appreciate the importance of a higher income but increasing our income is not easy. It requires time, effort,…
Continue reading →Here is a list of stocks with low volatility and momentum for October 2021 from the Nifty 100. You can also get the historical data from March 2019 to October 2021. We filter Nifty 100 for (1) positive 1-year return, (2) positive six-month return, (3) price > 200-day moving average, (4) 50% of daily positive…
Continue reading →These are the freefincal handpicked list of mutual funds for October-December 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 tool. Most important! Plumbline is a mix of my opinions + skin…
Continue reading →Neeraj asks, “Dear Pattu Sir, are we in the middle of the biggest bull run in the history of the Indian stock market? If we look at the market momentum since March 2020, it seems to be the sharpest increase ever seen. Can you please let me know if I am right?” When I first…
Continue reading →In this edition of the reader story, we meet Vamshi and learn how he created his own financial plan with a conservative mindset. I am grateful to readers for sharing intimate details about their financial lives for the benefit of readers. This is the 19th such reader audit. Previous editions are linked at the bottom…
Continue reading →Subbiah asks, “Dear Pattu Sir, ICICI Pru NASDAQ 100 Index Fund will be available for investing from next week (NFO period is from Sep 27 to Oct 11 2021). Can we buy this instead of MO Nasdaq 100 FOF or Kotak Nasdaq 100 FOF as it is a simple index fund?” ICICI Pru NASDAQ 100…
Continue reading →The strong bull market after the March 2020 market crash has been a gamechanger for anyone who had significant equity exposure for the last two years or so. See for example this reader-audit: My net worth doubled in the last financial year thanks to patient investing! As regular readers may be aware, I had close…
Continue reading →Mani asks, “Assume I have 10L in my corpus at the retirement age of 60 based on some NAV value of X. By the time I reach 60, assume there was a market crash and NAV for NPS has fallen drastically by 20%. So I choose the deferment option. After 3 yrs, the market is…
Continue reading →This is my monthly retirement stock portfolio analysis compared with an equivalent investment in a Nifty index fund and the Nifty 100 Low Volatility 30 TR index. Before we begin, investors need to appreciate the context of these investments. I started direct equity investing only after achieving a comfortable level of financial independence and ensuring…
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