The cost inflation index for the financial year 2025-2026 is 376, representing a 3.58% increase. We compile 45 years of cost ...

The freefincal robo-advisor tool will now feature equity glide paths for retirement buckets, providing enhanced risk ...

A reader asks, "Would you please suggest how one can manage financially if one is not eligible for health insurance due to ...

Last Updated on June 25, 2025 at 10:12 am A reader says, “I am attempting to start an experiment within my family. The plan is to create an inheritance pot each generation tries to hand over to the ...

5. Take your parents out on holiday, buy them stuff etc. Once your parents become old or sick, it would be quite difficult to do any of the above. So make hay when the sun shines! Ps. Another regret I ...

Last Updated on June 24, 2025 at 3:00 pm Ever since the announcement of the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS), I had assumed that it would also apply to the Union Government’s Central Autonomous Bodies ...

Stock portfolio weights and returns as of June 9th, 2025 Please note: (1) Although investments started in 2014, most of the money invested is from July 2020. (2) Due to other priorities, I did not ...

A reader asks, “Can I use a simple equity + debt portfolio instead of multiple retirement buckets? Won’t this be easier to manage?” When I was younger, I would have agreed with the reader. Age and ...

We recently received an interesting email, which is reproduced below with the author’s permission. “I have come across your work in the field of saving/investing for financial independence very ...

This is a debt mutual fund screener for portfolio selection, tracking, and learning. It also includes hybrid funds that invest in bonds. It will satisfy investors who wish to invest in money market ...

Readers often send us their mutual fund portfolios and ask for help in decluttering them. That is reduced unnecessary funds. Since we do not offer investment advice, we can do the next best thing – ...

This requires some experience, and I will not recommend it to newbie debt fund investors. Even older investors should tread with caution, look at the credit quality of the bonds, and ensure the ...