Expense Account, Mint Growing up in the 70s and 80s in urban middle India was to know what shortages are. The state strangled enterprise and everything from a scooter to a phone to butter, milk and grain was scarce. The civics and history textbooks stank of double standards as they spoke about an India that...
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Expense Account, Mint When one lives in a country of over a billion people, big numbers seldom come as a surprise. But when I looked at the number of Rs.1.5 trillion, I was astounded. That’s about 1.5% of the Indian gross domestic product, was the first thought. But the number in the excel sheet looked back...
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 Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd (HSBC) has been in the news in the past week for all the wrong reasons. Globally, the bank has been under pressure not just for mis-selling in the UK but also for allegedly violating the US anti-money laundering laws. Its third quarter results have a...
Expense Account, Mint The Rs2.9 trillion Indian life insurance industry has, for the first time since privatization in 2000, seen contraction over two consecutive financial years. Fiscal 2010-11 saw a shrinking of 20% and the full year 2011-12, estimates the insurance regulator, will contract 15%. This means that enough of us did not buy an...
Expense Account, Mint In the market for a TV, I checked out all the vendors nearby. In the Sony and Samsung showrooms I got the Sony and Samsung TVs. In Croma, I got a variety of brands. On one TV it said Croma. That was the in-house brand which was cheaper than the other branded...
Expense Account, Mint The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has taken a welcome step to bring in a set of adviser regulations. It has released a concept paper on the regulation of investment advisers. India needs a new set of regulations to bring order to a marketplace that moves money between households and...