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Expense Account Investments Money Personal FinanceJanuary 20, 2021by Monika Halan1No way! It can’t go higher! Sensex at 50k gets the same reactions as at 4k.

It’s happened. The Sensex has hit the big milestone of 50,000 points today, 21 January 2021. The Indian stock market, filled with money of global and domestic investors is celebrating the reviving economy, the vaccine roll-out and the big-bang budget signals coming from North Block. It can be said, the market is celebrating the re-rating of...

Expense Account Financial Literacy Money Mutual Funds Personal FinanceJanuary 12, 2021by Monika Halan2How to use the new mutual fund risk-o-meter

In March 2020 we understood risk a little better in both equity and debt mutual funds. Better returns have been one of the reasons that investors released the safety belt of the fixed deposit to ride market-linked returns in both equity and debt. But higher returns and liquidity come with a greater risk. Investors need...

Narendra ModiJanuary 9, 2021by Monika Halan0BW report on PM’s pre budget meet with economists

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with leading economists of the country on charting the economic agenda in the post-COVID world and highlighted government’s commitment to developing world-class infrastructure and the economic potential set to be unleashed by National Optical Fibre Network. He highlighted the faith shown by foreign investors in India’s growth story, with foreign direct investment...

Expense Account Financial Literacy Investments Let's Talk Money Money Personal Finance UncategorizedJanuary 6, 2021by Monika Halan3Your money vaccine for 2021

The year 2020 was one of fear for our health, jobs and net worth. A small section of the Indian investors – those with the right exposure to equity and with a good blend of bonds and stocks – did well. The rest just looked on from the sidelines and wished they had the mindset...

MintDecember 30, 2020by Monika Halan0The country must retain its inflation target of 4%

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) working paper by Harendra Kumar Behera and RBI deputy governor Michael Debabrata Patra on inflation targeting has waded right into one of the world’s most vibrant policy debates, one between inflation hawks and dis-inflationists. The former believe that easy-money policies pursued after the West’s financial crisis of 2008-09 that have given...

Expense Account Financial Literacy Mint Money With Monika Personal FinanceDecember 30, 2020by Monika Halan0Year-end lessons: Adaptability, resilience, hope

It is a different feeling to actually go through difficulty. Reading about the 1930s Depression or watching movies that tell stories of a great crisis and how the human spirit rose up to the occasion and emerged stronger—battle scarred, but better—after it fought back, is very different from facing real danger. It is another thing...

Expense Account Mint MoneyDecember 24, 2020by Monika Halan0The year we confronted death

You get opportunities to hit reset every once in a while. All the major life stages give you that—marriage, childbirth, a job loss, a death in the family. These are events that have in them the potential to make you pause, rethink who you are, rework things that need redoing, and move forward on a...

Financial Literacy Mint MoneyDecember 23, 2020by Monika Halan0New rules are needed to stop predatory lending

2 min read. Updated: 22 Dec 2020, 08:35 PM ISTLivemint The recent suicide of a Hyderabad-based techie who was humiliated when a lender went about calling people on his contact list, the consent for which he had given while taking that loan through an app, has brought into sharp focus the risks of instant app-based lending in India....

Expense Account Financial Literacy Investments Mint Personal FinanceDecember 23, 2020by Monika Halan0Treat Bitcoin like a punt, and not as an investment

It was the technology stocks in the US till a few months back that were getting investors’ attention, but that got trumped more recently by the multi-bagger returns of some cryptocurrencies. There are newspaper front page comparisons of the value of bitcoin with the returns on the Sensex and gold, where the crypto emerges as a multi-bagger, giving better returns...

Expense Account Financial Literacy Investments Mint Personal FinanceDecember 16, 2020by Monika Halan0Jackpot mindset: lessons from a diamond farmer

Not everybody can be a Lakhan Yadav, the 45-year-old Madhya Pradesh farmer, who spent ₹200 on a diamond stake and found a ₹60 lakh winner. And not everyone can be Yadav in the manner in which he is dealing with his win—after a celebratory mobike spend, he will use the fixed deposit (FD) route to park the money and educate...

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Expense Account Investments Money Personal FinanceJanuary 20, 2021by Monika Halan1No way! It can’t go higher! Sensex at 50k gets the same reactions as at 4k.

Expense Account Financial Literacy Money Mutual Funds Personal FinanceJanuary 12, 2021by Monika Halan2How to use the new mutual fund risk-o-meter

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Financial Literacy Mint MoneyDecember 23, 2020by Monika Halan0New rules are needed to stop predatory lending

Expense Account Financial Literacy Investments Mint Personal FinanceDecember 23, 2020by Monika Halan0Treat Bitcoin like a punt, and not as an investment

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