Expense Account, Mint At the Financial Planning Standards Board’s annual congress last week in Mumbai, in which Mint was a media partner, the theme was consumer protection. Panellist Nilesh Shah of Axis Bank began his comments with this horse tale. In emperor Akbar’s stable there was a horse that preferred to eat grass over oats....
Expense Account, Mint A friend worries about not doing enough for her daughter. The daughter’s now married and has a girl of her own. The single mum, my friend, periodically calls up to ask what she should do for her daughter. Of late the calls have been more frantic. She’s afraid that she’s been left...
Expense Account, Mint How should we invest in 2013? Notice I said how and not in what. Maybe it’s age. Or maybe it is just more emotional quotient. But I find myself throwing out the old textbook version of advice on money more often. The textbook version says that your life sits in a neat...
Expense Account, Mint The aftershocks of the torture and gang rape of the young woman in New Delhi, who died in a Singapore hospital on Saturday, are still palpable almost three weeks after the incident. In the form of the woman who suddenly stares down the man eyeing her in the closed confines of a...