Guide

SEBI Investor Education portal

SEBI Free Beginner India

The market regulator own free investor-education portal: unbiased basics on investing, mutual funds, and avoiding scams, with nothing to sell you.

Open on investor.sebi.gov.in ↗

Curated reading that points you to the sources, not personalised investment advice.

It answers 20 questions

  1. Should I buy index funds or pick stocks?
  2. I run a company. Should I even try to pick stocks?
  3. Do I need a wealth manager, or can I do this myself?
  4. How do I actually start a SIP in India?
  5. What's the difference between an index fund and an ETF?
  6. How do I find a good fee-only financial planner in India?
  7. My startup income is lumpy. How do I keep a SIP going?
  8. Do I need to worry about insider trading rules as a startup founder?
  9. How much should a fee-only financial planner in India cost, and how do I know it's worth it?
  10. Should I pick a direct plan or a regular plan mutual fund?
  11. How much of my money should ever sit in individual stocks?
  12. What's the difference between a distributor, an RIA, and my bank relationship manager in India?

And 8 more across the hub.

Read with it

  1. A no-nonsense, ad-light India personal-finance site: plain math and free calculators for emergency funds, goals, and asset... Freefincal Tool Freefincal: goal-based planning and calculators M. Pattabiraman
  2. The free, India-first grounding in what to do with cash once you have it: goals, allocation, SIPs, and not losing it to fees. Zerodha Varsity Course Personal Finance Zerodha Varsity
  3. The best reminder that avoiding ruin beats chasing returns, and that wealth is the money you don't spend. The whole founder... The Psychology of Money Book The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel
  4. A trusted India-first place to compare funds and think about where cash goes once you have some to invest. Value Research Tool Value Research: fund research and planning Value Research
  5. The free, India-first walkthrough of what a mutual fund and an index fund actually are, direct vs regular plans, and how a SIP... Zerodha Varsity Course Mutual Funds Zerodha Varsity
  6. The mutual fund industry body investor corner: fund basics, NAVs, and how SIPs work, straight from the source. AMFI Guide AMFI: mutual fund investor resources AMFI
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