Dr M Pattabiraman (PhD), aka Pattabiraman Murari, aka pattu, is the founder, managing editor and primary author of freefincal. He is an associate professor at IIT, Madras, and the author of three ...
In Aug 2026, we published a report comparing Active Mid-Cap Mutual Funds with the Nifty Midcap 150. We used 5-year, 4-year ...
Over the past few months, I've found myself asking AI more and more financial questions. Sometimes I already knew the answer.
This ETF screener tracks errors and differences (ETF return minus index return). It will help users evaluate how efficiently an ETF has tracked its underlying ...
The latest freefincal Equity Mutual Fund Performance Screener is now available. Use it to screen for equity mutual funds that consistently deliver strong performance. You can screen by fund category & ...
In this edition of the reader story, we feature a 38-year-old who started his career as a hotel helper at the age of 10! About this series: I am grateful to readers for sharing intimate details about ...
I was recently asked the titular question at an event. The person has a target asset allocation of 20% international equity, 40% Indian equity, and 40% fixed income (the international equity ...
A reader says, “I am investing next month with a corpus of Rs. 6 Crores. Please guide me on how to invest this for a peaceful retirement. My wife and I are both 55 years old. Our annual expenses are ...
In this edition of the reader-story, “I’m 38 years old today, working a private sector job, and living in a Tier 1 city on rent with my spouse and our 4-year-old kid. Around 2021, I stumbled upon ...
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 ...
In June, we launched NaviPlan: a privacy-focused multi-asset tracker and Goal Planner. Developed by Gokul of Naviran Technologies in association with freefincal, this tool lets users track mutual ...
In Part 1, I wrote about the assumption embedded in almost every retirement plan: that the person managing the corpus at seventy-five will think and decide the way the person who built it did at forty ...
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