Personal Finance

Saving, emergency funds, and building wealth on a Sri Lankan salary.

A housing loan is likely the biggest financial commitment of your life. Here is what to…

Credit cards, personal loans, pawning, leasing: debt piles up quietly. Here is a clear,…

It is one of the most oversold and least understood products in the country. Here is how to…

Gold has been Sri Lanka's default store of value for generations. Here is how to invest in…

Both are safe, both pay interest, and both are staples of Sri Lankan saving. But they're not the…

Before you invest a single rupee in shares, you need this. An emergency fund is the unglamorous …

You want to invest in the market, but should you pick stocks yourself, or hand the job to a fund…

Most early investing losses don't come from bad luck, they come from a handful of avoidable mist…

How much is 'enough' to retire on? There's a simple, back-of-envelope way to estimate your targe…

A plain-language, step-by-step guide to how to buy Treasury bills in Sri Lanka, one of the safes…

A plain-language guide to how tax on shares, dividends, interest and investments works in Sri La…

The government has made a TIN mandatory, and many Sri Lankans are unsure how income tax even wor…

A plain-language guide to the EPF and ETF in Sri Lanka: what they are, how much you and your emp…

A practical, no-nonsense guide to budgeting and saving on a Sri Lankan salary, whatever you earn…