Personal finance
Mutual funds, ETFs, SIPs, debt, housing and allocation.
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- Personal finance 2026 All Weather ETF Portfolio Aug 2026
My Update of Australian ETF Portfolio
- Personal finance Small Cap Funds you need to pay attention Aug 2026
Investing in Small Caps
- Personal finance 2025 All Weather ETF Sept 2025
Update of Australian ETF Portfolio
- Personal finance SIP vs Lumpsum Aug 2025
Decide with a simple system
- Personal finance A small SIP change Jul 2025
Boost your returns
- Personal finance Are you using Mutual Fund Distributor? Jun 2025
This chapter of our mutual fund course (in Hindi) focuses on spotting good and bad MFD practices Get Full Courseeverything else we offer
- Personal finance My Wealth Buddy Australia Jun 2025
Custom GPT
- Personal finance Leveraging in right products Jan 2025
Zerodha recently introduced Margin Trading Facility (MTF), you can read about it here This got me thinking, Can we use this product to build wealth? There is a similar product in…
- Personal finance Understand IPO Allotment Dec 2024
in India
- Personal finance Systematic Withdrawal Plan Oct 2024
A tool for retirement
- Personal finance How I select Mutual Funds in India Aug 2024
Slides from session on 27th July 2024 27 Jul 2024 Data Driven Approach Mf To watch full session go to YouTube
- Personal finance All Weather ETF Australian Portfolio Jul 2024
Retire Rich
- Personal finance Easy way to beat dollar cost average May 2024
Family & friends extensively use dollar cost averaging to invest in equity markets , in mutual fund industry in India its also called as SIP or Systematic Investment plan. It has…
- Personal finance Monitor for Style Drift Mar 2024
While studying for CFA, there was one whole section dedicated to style drift, Investopedia defines Style drift is the divergence of a fund from its investment style or objective.…
- Momentum & systems Timing an Index Fund Aug 2022
Passive index investing is gaining momentum (pun intended) among millennials. One of the questions that popped into my head what would be better to buy an index hold or buy and…
- Momentum & systems Quant based smallcase worth adding to your watchlist Aug 2022
Came across another smallcase that is free and has a very good track record. ARQ Prime is a long-only equity portfolio ARQ Prime recommends stocks for investment based on a set of…
- Personal finance Dividend or Growth Oct 2021
Short post The Oracle of Omaha has beautifully summarised how to adopt a dividend distribution policy through his shareholder letters Unrestricted earnings that can generate…
- Personal finance Why I like ETFs Jul 2020
I have been an active stock picker since 2008-9 and this is the first year I have got my hands-on ETFs So what are ETFs? An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of security that…
- Personal finance Buying house Vs Equity Investments Jun 2015
A while back when I wrote don’t buy a house and invest your EMI in markets, I concluded that only 1 person in 50 would actually do it I was surprised to find through comments that…
- Personal finance Invest your house EMI in equity markets May 2015
Earlier I wrote a post to convince you that you should buy a house against renting, Today let’s build a case of buying house on EMIs vs investing equated monthly investment (EMI )…
- Personal finance How to build additional sources of Income Jun 2014
Updated - 16.04.2015 What is diversity of your income sources ? A typical salaried employee’s graph would look like below [visualizer id=”501”] Highly concentrated with income…
- Personal finance 5 things I like about moneycontrol portfolio manager Jun 2014
Out of several choices of portfolio manager tools, I prefer moneycontrol portfolio manager - 5 reasons why!!
- Personal finance How much would you allocate to bonds ? May 2014
One most of difficult questions in debt investments - How much should I invest in debt ? Find answers in out third and final installment in debt series.
- Personal finance Download an excel for debt investors May 2014
In the second part on our debt investment series we provide you an excel to find what suits you. Download and start finding the investments which are right for you.
- Personal finance Investing in bonds & debt instruments May 2014
One of my most popular post has been on parking short term cash from last year. I have always believed that any successful investor should invest a portion of his portfolio in…
- Personal finance Yes you can start at $100 Dollars ! Mar 2014
Fire your boss, Do what you love and work better to live more This is how Chris Guillebeau starts his best seller $100 dollar start up- what follows is 274 pages of biblical…
- Personal finance Investing for short term Dec 2013
That was quite a break Image source - Indian Moms . After a big rest for 6 months finally up with a new post. Now many of us have short-term funds (cash) that is mostly lying in…
- Personal finance From smart shopper to smart flyer - Claim you free ticket !! Apr 2013
Travel hacking being such a fantastic topic to write, I was wondering is it possible to get a free ticket just by doing things in a little planned manner. Can a smart shopper…
- Personal finance How to allocate income to equity - The Thumb rule Mar 2013
After few roller coaster weeks in life back to board! The first few set of questions I hear from new (and sometimes old too J ) investors are - Where to Invest - How much to…
- Personal finance Why buying house makes sense ? Feb 2013
Should I buy a house or continue to be in rented one ? This seems to be eternal question for many of my colleagues and friends,with roaring real estate prices and not so rising…
- Personal finance Are you keeping Too much in Saving Account ? Oct 2011
One day I was shocked when Frieda told me that she has INR 3.5 lacs in her savings bank account. My first reaction was Why are you losing money, she was bemused and said can you…
- Personal finance Credit Cards - Easy Money!! Jul 2011
Pic Source: http://www.psdgraphics.com/file/credit-card.jpg Credit card doesn't figure on our list when we want to make money, Does it? For some it is plastic convenience while…