Goals

HDFC Tax Saver Fund is an Equity Linked Savings Scheme . It has kept its benchmark as the Nifty 500. It’s performance has not been upto the mark in the recent years. Expense ratio is on the higher side. It has been ranked a 1 star fund in Valueresearch and Moneycontrol It seems that HDFC AMC has had a closer look at this and has made major changes to this fund and is keen to turn this ship around.

Emergency fund as the name suggests is the money that you would touch when you have an emergency.

Emergencies could be :

Before I bought my house in 2010, I was grappling with this thought whether to buy or rent ? . I was living in a rented house and was paying Rs 8000/- as rent. My parents insisted on buying a house and the EMI was Rs 14,000/- per month. I argued that the rent amount was much lesser and insisted that we live in a rented house as the EMI is much higher than the rent. As with any middle class family, my parents had their way and we eventually bought the house.

November 2002 - I boarded the train from Mumbai to Pune to take up my first job. Net income was Rs 15,000/- We were working in one of the top IT service companies and quite excited. I used to meticulously write my expenses on daily basis. Very soon, I had made some good friends. I was eating out regularly. There was one late night movie every week, parties during the week. I stopped writing my expenses. Every Friday there was a Sumo ready to take us back to Mumbai and every dreadful Monday, there was one to take us back to office. By the time I left my first job and moved to the second one, I had Rs 4000/- in my bank account (2 years of saving).

One of the risks that recently have been talk of the town are geographical risks . Despite the world which is so interconnected now and any event has repercussions across the world, there are still inherent geographical risks which are local .