Incisive articles baed on data and facts
This short post describes a possible savings target in India – 30% of post tax income. 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 The right Money Equation Many young earners ask the question
In popular imagination, Albert Einstein is supposed to have called compound interest as the eighth wonder of the world. He did not say any such thing. Nevertheless, compounding indeed is very beneficial for your financial health. This short post provides a few ways to visualize the effect of compounding. First, the formulae Simple interest is
A lot of people are interested in ‘Investments’ to create assets. An often asked question is how to begin investing. In this short article, we look at a sequence of steps in this process, with an easy to remember acronym – BASICS – Budgeting, Annual Cash Flow, Saving for Emergency, Insurance, Corpus calculation, and Start
Mutual fund dividends have been used in interesting ways in India. It is public knowledge that the dividends in mutual funds are not the same as dividends from stocks. Unlike dividends from stocks, mutual fund dividends are paid out from the fund corpus itself – any dividend then decreases the Net Asset Value of the
Debt mutual funds are promoted as products that give ‘better returns’ than fixed deposits, while being quite safe. This is of course not true. Debt funds carry more risks than bank deposits. Another popular misconception is around one category of debt funds – Liquid funds. They are almost universally (mis)regarded as a direct alternative to
Index Card for India The original Index Card for personal finance was published by Harold Pollack here: Index Card It became quite popular and the author co-wrote a book on it. In a great episode on Freakanmoics Radio, Pollack listed the rules this way. The transcript can be found here (Search for Pollack if you
A thread in Quora asked for a list of worst financial mistakes that a person in 20’s can make. The brief answer lists 4 such mistakes. The source of the list is the classic article in JagoInvestor Buying products only for “saving tax” Waiting for the “right time” to invest Getting high on debt,