Nipun Institute for Financial Literacy
Fundamentals of investments & insurance
Eight Sunday lectures for salaried professionals who want to understand what they are buying. Taught by Neelakanth Phadke, who spent forty-five years in insurance and investment in India and Japan before he began teaching Sanskrit full-time.
Not advice, and nothing is sold here — the aim is that you can read a policy document, judge a fund, and plan a retirement without depending on whoever is selling to you.
The eight lectures
- 01Why financial literacy matters, and what it is not
- 02Reading a household balance sheet
- 03How insurance actually works — term, endowment, ULIP
- 04Reading a policy document without help
- 05Fixed income, equity and what risk really means
- 06Mutual funds — judging one on its own terms
- 07Tax, and planning that does not depend on it
- 08Retirement, and planning backwards from it
“Overall, it helped me be more comfortable with the idea of money and investments.”