FundSchool playbook · India + NRI

Money makes more sense when it sounds like your life.

Pick a level. Follow the stories. Leave with one clear thing you can do next.

NO JARGON · NO SHAMEEvery big money idea starts with a small, familiar story.273 stories · 45 investment + 45 tax + 15 retirement basics + 15 retirement build + 15 retirement advanced + 15 goal basics + 15 goal build + 15 goal advanced + 15 estate basics + 15 estate build + 15 estate advanced + 15 risk and insurance basics + 15 risk and insurance build + 15 risk and insurance advanced · 3 playlists

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Start where you are. You can always come back for the next level.

PLAYLIST 01 · 15-BLOG SERIES

Basics: make money
less mysterious.

Start with the complete 15-part investment-planning, tax-planning, retirement-planning, goal-planning, estate-planning, and risk-and-insurance-planning series.

CHOOSE A MODULEPick one planning module to begin.

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INVESTMENT PLANNING · BASICS15 blogs to help you make your first money decisions with a clear head.

Read in order or jump to the question that is keeping you stuck. Every blog ends with a plain-language checklist and common answers.

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TAX PLANNING · BASICS15 blogs to make tax words, forms, records, and choices easier to understand.

Start with the tax calendar, understand your income, compare regimes carefully, and build a filing habit without panic.

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RETIREMENT PLANNING · BASICS15 blogs to make the future paycheck feel like a plan you can start today.

Begin with the life you want, then work through spending, inflation, corpus, EPF, NPS, healthcare, and your annual check-up.

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GOAL PLANNING · BASICS15 blogs to turn wishes into dated, funded goals without jargon.

Learn how to define, prioritise, price, fund, track, and review home, education, family, NRI, and everyday financial goals.

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ESTATE AND WILL PLANNING · BASICS15 blogs to make your family’s assets, wishes, and documents easier to carry forward.

Understand ownership, nominations, wills, executors, dependants, property, digital accounts, NRI documents, and the annual estate check-up.

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RISK AND INSURANCE PLANNING · BASICS15 blogs to make protection, health, life, claims, and policy wording easier to understand.

Learn the difference between emergency savings and insurance, how health and life cover work, what exclusions mean, how claims move, and how to run a yearly protection review.

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PLAYLIST 02 · 15-BLOG SERIES

Build: make a plan
you can live with.

Turn the Basics into repeatable investment, tax, retirement, goal, estate, and risk-and-insurance systems: cash-flow maps, corpus scenarios, portfolio construction, withdrawal readiness, healthcare, claims, renewals, NRI questions, ownership, nominations, and annual review.

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INVESTMENT PLANNING · BUILD15 blogs for turning good intentions into a portfolio you can explain.

Read in order or jump to the decision you are ready to make. Every blog ends with a plain-language checklist and common answers.

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TAX PLANNING · BUILD15 blogs for turning tax knowledge into a year-round system.

Build a tax calendar, reconcile credits, plan cash flow, handle property and business income, and prepare for notices without panic.

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RETIREMENT PLANNING · BUILD15 blogs for turning retirement intentions into an income system you can run.

Build the one-page plan, map future cash flow, coordinate EPF/EPS/NPS, set buckets, plan withdrawals, protect healthcare, and review the system every year.

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GOAL PLANNING · BUILD15 blogs for turning goal lists into a monthly system that actually runs.

Build the dashboard, allocate cash flow, create goal buckets, step up contributions, match investments to dates, and handle home, education, family, debt, and NRI goals.

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ESTATE AND WILL PLANNING · BUILD15 blogs for turning estate documents into a family system that can actually be used.

Build the estate map, audit nominations, prepare for a will, support dependants, protect property and business records, coordinate NRI assets, and run the annual maintenance review.

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RISK AND INSURANCE PLANNING · BUILD15 blogs for turning policies into a protection system your family can actually use.

Build the risk map, emergency reserve, health and life-cover structure, claims playbook, renewal calendar, portability checklist, NRI protection map, and annual review.

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PLAYLIST 03 · 15-BLOG SERIES

Advanced: see the
whole picture.

Explore advanced portfolio, tax, retirement, goal, estate, and risk-and-insurance decisions: decumulation, sequence risk, early retirement, multi-goal trade-offs, tax-aware funding, concentrated wealth, cross-border structures, family governance, ownership, succession, claims, business protection, and care planning.

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INVESTMENT PLANNING · ADVANCED15 blogs for the decisions that appear when the money gets more complicated.

Read in order or jump to the question you are facing. Every blog ends with a practical checklist and common answers.

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TAX PLANNING · ADVANCED15 blogs for complex tax decisions that need coordination, records, and timing.

Go deeper into residency, foreign assets, business wealth, property, trusts, retirement, notices, and tax governance.

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RETIREMENT PLANNING · ADVANCED15 blogs for making retirement income, family wealth, and long-life risks work together.

Go deeper into sequence risk, withdrawal guardrails, tax-aware decumulation, NPS exits, property, currencies, healthcare, succession, and governance.

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GOAL PLANNING · ADVANCED15 blogs for making multiple goals, wealth, tax, and family decisions work together.

Go deeper into goal trade-offs, timing risk, tax-aware funding, concentration, currencies, windfalls, education, estate planning, stress tests, and governance.

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ESTATE AND WILL PLANNING · ADVANCED15 blogs for making complex family wealth and succession decisions clearer.

Go deeper into wills, trusts, ownership, business succession, property, incapacity, cross-border estates, family governance, disputes, and continuity.

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RISK AND INSURANCE PLANNING · ADVANCED15 blogs for coordinating complex protection decisions across family, business, health, estate, and countries.

Go deeper into risk architecture, stress tests, health-policy coordination, business-owner risk, care planning, estate liquidity, NRI cover, underwriting, portability, claims governance, and adviser oversight.

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How the stories are made

Simple on the surface.
Careful underneath.

Each story is written in plain English, then checked against primary regulator or government material. The source note is there if you want to go deeper; the lesson itself stays readable.

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REVIEWED09
NOV
2026