The Franklin Templeton (FT) story gets worse every few weeks. Reena Zachariah reports in The Economic Times that the fund house is trying to make a domestic capital market regulatory issue into a foreign policy issue for India. She reports that the global and Indian senior management of the fund house has reached out to the India’s...
When I wrote the raja beta and rani bitiya piece last week, I had no idea that it would touch such a nerve. As of today, the post on my personal blog has been viewed some 66,000 times and my first tweet reached more than 4.5 lakh people. There were many conversations around the topic as people weighed in with...
Retail investors are the last to know when things go wrong with their money. This is especially true of difficult-to-value-and-trade (in India) financial products such as bonds. The story gets even more complicated on how to treat bonds that behave like (or worse than) equity – for example AT1 bonds. AT1 bonds are issued by...
Chucking a brand-new laptop into the family swimming pool to see if it was indeed waterproof, to barking into the phone to call the domestic help to raise the curtains that are two feet away from the bejeweled GenZ hand, to deliberately smashing a new phone after a fight with the parents. These are just...
बात पैसे की : मेहनत की कमाई से करायें मेहनत SAMAY PATRIKA / सोमवार, मार्च 01, 2021 https://www.samaypatrika.com/2021/03/baat-paise-ki-monika-halan-book-review.html मोनिका हालन की किताब हमें अपनी मेहनत की कमाई का उपयोग सही तरीके से करने की सलाह देती है. पैसा जीवन में बहुत उपयोगी है। उसे हम मेहनत से कमाते हैं। पैसा चिंता का विषय भी है। उसका सही...