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The 2021 Arthgyaan Year in Review

Posted on 29 Dec 2021
Author: Sayan Sircar

Tags: Review

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

The 2021 Arthgyaan Year in Review

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.

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Topics covered

Portfolio view for all goals

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

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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.

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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.

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