What I help with
Four things, explained the way I would explain them to my own family.
Mutual funds and SIPs
- Start small, from a few hundred rupees a month
- Fund choices explained in plain language before you sign
- Yearly review so your money keeps matching your life
Tax-saving investments
- A single sheet showing what is already using your 80C limit
- Lock-in periods spelled out before you commit
- Proof documents collected and stored for your filing
Fixed deposits and bonds
- Emergency fund sized to your actual monthly costs
- Maturities laddered around known expenses
- Interest and taxation on each option explained upfront
Loans against mutual funds
- Your units stay invested in your name
- Useful for short, defined needs, not for ongoing spending
- We talk it through before you apply, always
Borrowing against investments suits short, defined needs. It is not free money: interest accrues and your units are pledged until the loan is repaid. Please talk to me before you apply.
Being straight with you
And here is what I do not do.
I am not an investment adviser
I am an AMFI registered mutual fund distributor. I help you choose and maintain the products listed above and earn a commission from the fund house for doing so. For fee-based advisory you would need a SEBI-registered investment adviser, and I will tell you plainly if that is what you need.
I will not promise you a number
Nobody can. Markets do what they do. Anyone quoting you an assured return on a market-linked product is either mistaken or not being honest with you.
I do not sell what I cannot explain
If a product needs a chart and ten minutes of jargon to justify, it is usually working harder for the seller than for you.