M. Pattabiraman's Blog, page 94

Using AI to create financial podcasts in minutes!

It is not even May, and already 2023 is the year of AI and as Bill Gates recently proclaimed, the age of AI has begun. We recently discussed how ChatGPT could be a game-changer in personal finance. We also demonstrated Retirement Planning with AutoGPT and pointed out that the future of Investment advisory is informal....

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Index fund tracking error screener April 2023

This index fund screener is based on tracking error and returns difference wrt benchmarks (aka tracking difference). The screener will help users evaluate how efficiently an index fund has tracked its underlying benchmark. It will also help a understand how tracking a midcap index or the Nifty 100, 500 differs from tracking the Sensex or...

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My expenses have increased tenfold over 20 years – will I have enough when I retire?

A reader says, ” Thank you for the Robo Advisory Tool. It has given me insight into my retirement plans. A query: As we can recall, monthly expenses during the year 2002 were approximately Rs.10,000/- p.m. In 2022, our expenses escalated to Rs.1,00,000/- p.m. (in 20 years)”. “The Retirement Corpus calculated in the year 2002...

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ETF tracking error screener April 2023

This is an ETF screener based on tracking errors and tracking differences (ETF return minus index return). The screener will help users evaluate how efficiently an ETF has tracked its underlying benchmark. The tracking error is the ETF’s standard deviation minus index monthly return differences. The lower the tracking error, the more efficient the ETF...

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Retirement Planning with AutoGPT: The Informal Future of Investment Advisory

AutoGPT is an open-source Python code using Open AI’s GPT4. Unlike ChatGPT, which requires human intervention at every step, AutoGPT can “self-prompt” and find additional information from its knowledge base or the web (depending on the application). It is supposed to be a step towards artificial general intelligence. They are also referred to as Task-Driven Autonomous...

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My home loan interest rate has increased should I sell my MFs to pre-pay?

Over the last few weeks, many readers have asked if they can sell their mutual funds or other investments to partially pre-pay their home loans due to steep loan interest rates after the RBI Repo rate hike. One reader wanted to liquidate his entire MF holdings to part-pre-pay and decrease investments to increase the EMI...

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Why comparing US & Indian salaries with exchange rate is wrong!

Many of us convert the salary received by Indians going abroad in local currency (USD, Euro etc.) into INR and assume that “they” are doing much better than us. This is, however, incorrect. The exchange rate does not help us compare the cost of living in the two countries. That is, it does not help...

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Rs. 100 in 1981 is now worth just Rs. 5 thanks to inflation!

The cost inflation index for the financial year 2023-2024 was recently announced. The index increased from 331 in the previous financial year to 348 – an increase of 5.14%. We compile 42 years of cost inflation index data to understand the devastating consequences of inflation and why our singular focus should be on beating inflation...

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RIL Demerger: Curation risk in passive investing

On April 12th 2023, The Business Standard reported the Nifty criteria may be tweaked before RIL’s financial services arm demerger as the current rule could lead to the firm’s exclusion from the index. On Feb 24th 2022, the NSE announced that the “Minimum listing history requirement in case of a new listing and companies traded subsequent...

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Are ESG themed mutual funds worth investing in?

A reader wants to know if investing in an ESG-themed mutual fund is worth it. So some numbers and some discussion. In general, all thematic funds are unnecessary. The same logic applies to ESG, which gives off a “saving the planet vibe”! What is the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment theme? It involves choosing...

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