Rolling return charts have recently become popular among DIY investors and advisors for mutual fund analysis. However, few ...

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We live in the golden age of financial access. With a smartphone and a 4G connection, you can buy a piece of India’s top companies or a global index fund ...

A reader asked me to write about work-life balance and how to achieve it. So here goes. In my opinion, it is hard to define ...

We publish a list of stocks with low volatility and momentum each month. We provide data for BSE 500 and BSE 100 stocks.

A 35-year-old individual is inquiring whether it is feasible to retire comfortably by age 55 and the steps necessary to ...

In this article, Dhilip Krishna discusses why he became a fixed-fee-only SEBI-registered investment Advisor. He is a member of Fee-only India*. Dhilip can ...

A reader asks, “Can I invest a lump sum in equity MFs to increase my equity allocation from 45% to 65%?” A 65% equity exposure is not that high, but what matters is, do you have a strategy to reduce ...

Recently, someone on X referenced a trailing 5,7,10Y SIP returns comparison of direct plan large cap funds vs the Nifty 100 TRI and concluded that most active funds beat the index. They also noted ...

A reader says, “I am part of a private forum of FIRE (financially independent early retirement) seekers. We share each other’s FIRE journeys from time to time. I recently achieved a 40X corpus (= 40 ...

We discuss the role of income laddering (annuity laddering) in retirement planning and how to implement it. There are two extreme options in retirement planning: one where the corpus is managed in a ...

debt PF/PPF, etc.) safe? What may happen if some hacker hacks my digital life or, worst case, hacks into the government or AMC database and deletes our holdings? What will happen if our CDSL accounts ...