Here are nine steps beginners can follow to start planning for retirement. We will assume that retirement is 25 years away.

This article compares my stock portfolio with an equivalent investment in a Nifty index fund and the Nifty 100 Low Volatility 30 TR index. We post this comparison each month. Before we begin, new ...

Many investors often ask, "I have some surplus cash. Where should I park it?"; "Can I park my surplus cash in my SBI Max Gain ...

"Can we use the freefincal robo advisory tool to track the progress of our financial goals?" is a question we often get from users and potential users.

One evening, my eleven-year-old asked me a simple question. “Why do you keep putting money into that account?” He had seen me ...

Mr Sharma (a pseudonym for perhaps your father, uncle, or neighbour) is a success story of the great Indian middle-class ...

A reader says, "I've been a reader of freefincal for the last few years, I really like your work. I have a generic question ...

The primary objective of portfolio rebalancing is risk reduction. We remove some funds from an asset class that is performing well and shift it to another asset class. Typically, this is done through ...

We have recently witnessed a big shift in how young earners manage money. Investing is getting popular instead of saving.

A reader shared a health scare he recently experienced and the lessons he learnt from it. He would like to remain anonymous.

Many NRIs living in the Middle East may be making a simple but expensive mistake with their Indian mutual fund investments.

This index fund screener is based on tracking error and return differences wrt benchmarks (also known as tracking differences ...