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

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 ...

A reader says, "I have a generic question about retirement planning. Can you retire if your annual expenses equal 6% of your ...

In a previous study published on freefincal, we showed that the Nifty 200 Momentum 30's apparent alpha largely disappears ...

The setting is familiar. It’s a cousin’s wedding, a Diwali card party, or a quiet Sunday lunch. You are enjoying your paneer ...

The latest Equity Mutual Fund Performance Screener is now available. Use it to screen for equity mutual funds that ...

If a price-based tracking error, or the ETF price return minus index return, is abnormally high, it could mean the price has ...

In this edition of the reader story, we have "a late-starter story with a few bruises, some luck, and a system that finally ...

Often, readers email us saying, "I do not have enough to invest for my long-term goals. What should I do?" This is a common ...

In the world of personal finance, there is a silent disease that kills more wealth than market crashes or recessions. It isn’t ignorance. It isn’t inflation. It is Hyper-Optimisation. It is the ...