This blog completes its first year with 100+ posts in 10 months. Here’s looking back.

📚 Table of Contents

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• How it all started
• Topics covered
• Most popular posts
• Most Popular Infographics
  • Goal-based investing cycle
  • Goal-planning for children
  • Buying term insurance
• Tools and calculators
• Next steps for 2022

How it all started

Arthgyaan was started in March 2021 to simplify goal-based investing and personal finance. The blog helps you create a system for reaching your financial goals by sharing simple, actionable advice backed by research and analysis. Our tag-line is “Supporting everyone’s personal finance journey”.

This blog is a single-person effort. You can find more details on the About page. Our readers are located worldwide.

You can start reading here: Start here.

Topics covered

Over 10 months, more than 100 articles have been published that cover various topics. Some of the popular ones are:

• Behavioural finance
• Children’s goal planning and future
• Goal setting and portfolio construction
• Loans and house purchase
• Asset allocation
• Choosing investments suitable for your goals
• Retirement and FIRE
• Product/Fund/NFO reviews
• Various calculators for retirement, creating corpus via SIP and others

Most popular posts

These are the five most popular posts according to page views:

• How to climb the wealth ladder in India? - 1 lakh, 1 crore or 10 crores: how much do we need to be wealthy and what we should do at every step of the wealth ladder
• What percentage of my salary should go towards retirement? - This post answers a common question asked by investors regarding investing for retirement.
• How to choose debt instruments for retirement? - This post describes suitable debt instruments for both pre and post-retirement investing.
• 12 mistakes that interrupt compounding: what to do instead - This post is about how to avoid common mistakes that interrupt compounding.
• I am 25 and want to FIRE by 40. How much should I save per month? - This post shows a worked-out example for someone starting their career to plan for FIRE.

Most Popular Infographics

Goal-based investing cycle

Goal-planning for children

Buying term insurance

Tools and calculators

There are multiple popular and useful tools and calculators available:

• Comprehensive goal-based investing calculator that can handle all goals like retirement, FIRE, children’s education/marriage and home buying. The tool will show you the asset allocation for each goal and the SIP amount. It will even show the minimum term insurance coverage you need
• Risk profiling tool that you should use before investing in your goals
• eBook: 30 essential personal finance concepts
• Excel-based SIP calculator

Next steps for 2022

2022 is expected to be a more significant year, focusing more on choosing investments, portfolio construction, and dealing with case studies from readers and questions. Here’s wishing you all happy holidays and a happy new year. 2022 will be great!

Now that 2022 is over, here is the next year in review: 2022 year in review.