
Investment Basics
- Great Expectations!! (Link)
- Mind Your Inflation (Link)
- Why the odds are against you when it comes to good financial advice (Link)
Financial Plan
- See how easily you can create your own financial plan in 15 minutes (Link)
- A simple trick to estimate your future costs in 2 minutes (Link)
- Create your own financial plan while you are waiting at the traffic signal (Link)
Fixed Deposits
- Fixed Deposits – What you see is not what you get!! (Link)
- The real truth about fixed deposits (Link)
Debt funds
- Debt Mutual Funds – What returns to expect (Link)
- A primer for investing in debt mutual funds (Link)
- 8 factor framework for analyzing any debt mutual fund (Link)
- Investing Chitra Katha – Understanding the impact of modified duration on debt fund returns (Link)
- The ultimate guide to liquid funds (Link )
- Here’s a quick way to select Ultra Short Term Funds (Link )
- Making sense of Short Term Debt Mutual Funds (Link)
- Credit funds – Don’t count your returns before they hatch (Link)
- Here’s why I don’t invest in credit funds (Link)
- Figuring out a simple do-it-yourself framework for short term investing (Link)
- Making sense of the recent fall in debt funds (Link)
- Evaluating Debt Funds – Revisiting the framework (Link)
- This Might Be The Scariest Thing You Heard About Credit Risk Funds..(Link)
- Franklin India Ultra Short Bond Fund – Lessons on Risk and Returns (Link)
Arbitrage Funds
- Arbitrage Funds – Behind The Returns (Link)
- Do you know the answer to the arbitrage funds vs debt funds debate Link
Gold
- Gold Returns – Making sense of history (Link)
- Gold Returns – my futile attempt at predicting the future (Link)
Equities
- Equity Investing – Getting the basics in place (Link)
- Equity Investing – Importance of time (Link)
- Equities – Dismantling the returns (Link)
- A layman’s guide to equity valuation (Link)
- Equity Investing – Just two things to remember (Link)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Indian equity investor (Link)
- What returns will I get from equities going forward? – Part 1 (Link)
- What returns will I get from equities going forward? – Part 2 (Link)
- What returns will I get from equities going forward? – Part 3 (Link)
- 5 Blind Men and the equity markets – (Link)
- “What if things go wrong” Investment Plan – (Link)
- My “What if things go wrong”Investment Plan – Part 2 (Link)
- Seat Belts, Condoms and the Indian Equity Investor (Link)
- And the award for the world’s best risk manager goes to.. (Link)
- A visual way to think about future equity returns (Link)
- Dude, Shall I reduce my equity exposure? (Link)
- In search of the holy grail – Exit at the top and enter at the bottom strategy (Link)
- This strange ritual of Japanese rail workers can help us evaluate equity markets (Link)
- A video game approach to managing money (Link)
- Past returns as an asset allocation strategy. Here comes the shocker. It works! (Link)
Equity Mutual Funds
- How to select the best equity mutual fund (Link)
- Equity Mutual Fund Selection – Process vs Outcome (Link)
- Practical Guide to Equity MF selection – Part 1 (Link)
- Practical Guide to Equity MF selection – Part 2 (Link)
- The Most Boring article about falling in love with a mutual fund (Link)
- The curious case of the “Top 5” fund investor (Link)
- The curious case of the “Top 5” fund investor – Part 2 (Link)
- The mystery of short term past performance versus future equity fund returns (Link)
- Evaluating equity mutual fund returns – from theory to practice (Link)
- Selecting an equity mutual fund is a pain in the neck! Find out why? (Link)
- What if Steve Jobs was an Indian Equity Investor (Link)
- How do we experience good performance (Link)
- How to select equity mutual funds the eighty twenty investor way – Part 1 (Link)
- How to select equity mutual funds the eighty twenty investor way – Part 2 (Link)
- How to select equity mutual funds the eighty twenty investor way – Part 3 (Link)
- Here’s how I finally set up my investment portfolio for the next 10 years (Link)
- A shocking rape, alternate histories and equity investing (Link)
- What no one told you about the mind blowing mid and small cap returns (Link)
- Investing Chitra Katha – How to invest money in your 30s (Link)
- Remember this before the next bear market arrives (Link)
- You’ve got a large amount to invest. Here’s everything you need to know.. (Link)
- Becoming a Long term Investor, One Short term Decision at a Time (Link)
- Knowing your Risk won’t save your Portfolio in the next market fall. But this will.. (Link)
- There is many a SLIP between the SIP and the LIP (Link)
- Sleepless Nights framework to evaluate returns (Link)
- This powerful current can help you evaluate equity funds. Will DSP Quant Fund withstand the current? (Link)
- Elevators, Asset Allocation and the invisible fund (Link)
- Enduring Long Term investing one movie at a time (Link)
- What if Elon Musk built equity mutual fund portfolios instead of rockets? (Link)
SIP in Equities
- SIP in Equities – Don’t forget the hidden lump sum component (Link)
- Long term SIP is not risk free, yet you can workaround it (Link)
- SIP Portfolio Review (Link)
- My SIP Portfolio Review 1 year (Link)
Know your Fund Manager
- Sankaran Naren – The Contrarian (Link)
Real Estate
- Don’t even think about real estate without reading this (Link)
- Real Estate, My Mom and Mr Charlie Munger (Link)
Behavioral Finance
- The Secret war on your savings has already begun (Link)
- A pigeon from the 1950’s has the answer to your facebook addiction (Link)
- A deep dive into variable rewards (Link)
- The secret techniques app designers use to get us addicted (Link)
- Discover 6 simple hacks to reduce time spent on social media (Link)
- Secret to Long term investing – “See me not” (Link)
- The next time you see an awesome ad ask these 6 questions – Your “Aha” moment is guaranteed! (Link)
- Mental Models – Authority Bias (Link)
- This behavioral scientist has the surprising answer to our spending habits (Link)
- Oops, the markets are falling – Spying into investor behavior – Part 1 (Lizard brain) (Link)
- Oops, the markets are falling – Spying into investor behavior – Part 2 (Loss Aversion, frequent monitoring, Pattern Seeking and Cognitive Dissonance) (Link)
- My wife banned me from driving a bike – musings of a behavioral finance victim (Link)
- When in doubt follow others syndrome (Link)
- 6 reasons why we panic during a market correction 6 reasons why we panic during a market correction
- Three ways to make sure this stock market correction is not wasted (Link)
- If you panic during a market fall it’s not your fault. Blame it on.. (Link)
- A guilty father who shot his own kid, ancient Greek philosophers, US Navy Seals and the art of handling a market fall (Link)
- This FISH can help you save money (Link)
- Your next beach trip has the secret to the next market crash (Link)
- Worried about the next bear market – Introducing the courageous investor movement (Link)
- Three unexpected lessons on Risk from the Indian roads (Link)
- The next bear market is arriving on.. (Link)
- How to Approach the Current Equity Market Decline? (Link)
- Ordered food from Zomato and to my surprise, discovered how to survive the bear market (Link)
- Should you exit equities now and enter later? (Link)
- Eighty Twenty Investor and the Bear Market (Link)
- Should I exit Equities (Link)
Musings
- Musings under the shower series: Lottery Linked equity mutual funds (Link)
Insurance
- Decoding Insurance Plans as investment options (Link)
Articles at FundsIndia
- Taking Advantage of Volatility (Link)
- How to make the most of stock market declines (Link)
- Why Equity SIP Investors Can No Longer Ignore this Significant Question (Link)
- Experiencing long term investing, one short term period at a time (Link)
- Equity Markets near an all-time high. But why did Little Albert cry? (Link)
- Large Cap Funds – It ain’t over till it’s over (Link)
- Debt Mutual Funds – Portfolio Construction Framework (Link)
- US, Iran and your Portfolio. What happens next? (Link)
- Sensex at 1 lakh (Link)
- An Unusual Portfolio Approach to Deal with Coronavirus (Link)
- Things No One Tells You About ‘Exit Now and Enter Later’ strategy (Link)
- This Happens! (Link)
- Things under our control (Link)
- 6 reasons why you shouldn’t exit now (Link)
- What will happen to markets? Your maths teacher has the answer..(Link)
- How to Invest in the Current Markets? (Link)
- Should you wait till things settle down? (Link)