You can’t control price inflation but you can control lifestyle inflation.

An emergency fund is your umbrella in rainy days – to help you tide over a sudden need for cash that cannot be met by your regular salary of savings. Health insurance, therefore, becomes the foundation of your emergency fund.

I turn 25 this year (next month, in fact!). 25 – a quarter century, does feel like a milestone, and makes you ponder over “Am I where I wanted to be at 25?” And that got me thinking, how important is it really to be aligned to your age-goals?

In our view using EPF savings to fund your home buy is not a smart decision. You should dedicate EPF to provide you a cash flow in retirement.

Make sure you know your taxable income before you start planning to save taxes. It may just happen that you don’t even need to make tax saving investments.

We may believe in Karma and hard work, but a little bit of advice and caution never hurt anyone. So make the most of your prime years by being financially responsible with your money.

When you reduce your credit cards to just one, you can manage your expenses in a much easier way.

This 15 part series helps you identify and complete a single task every day for 15 days to take charge of your financial life. Over these 15 tasks, you will know more about your money and how to make it work harder while having to do less work and also worry less.