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FIRE Up - Comprehensive calculator for Early Retirement

FIRE Up – Comprehensive calculator for Early Retirement

FIRE – Financial Independence, Retire Early (revised on 26 Feb 2024) This long article describes a calculator that combines a set of factors to assess the feasibility of achieving financial freedom early in life. Financial Freedom (FF), or Financial Independence(FI) can be defined this way – the state of having sufficient personal wealth to live, …

Best Mutual Funds - DIY criteria

Best Mutual Funds – Selection using DIY Criteria

Best Mutual Funds? ‘Best Mutual Fund’ is one of the most common question/search term in personal finance. There are tons of sites that offer a list of Best Mutual Funds, Best Largecap Funds, Best Liquid Funds, etc. Most, but not all, of these sites also list the parameters that they have used to come up …

Rule 5 - Tax Savings is not mandatory

Personal Finance Rule 5 – Tax Savings is not mandatory

This short post warns against excessive focus on investing to simply save taxes. This results in sub-optimal results. This is a companion post to the India version of Harold Pollack’s Index Card – Pollack’s Index Card: All the financial advice that you ever need – India version What are Tax Savings? While the term tax …