Expense AccountFinancial LiteracyInvestmentsMoney BoxPersonal FinanceMarch 27, 2018by Monika Halan0When decisions go from ‘How to’ to ‘When to’
We spend far too much time on the 'how to'. Time to include 'when to' in our life.
What does money buy? The luxury of choices. The drivers of human behaviour have not changed for over 40,000 years.
Behavioral EconomicsExpense AccountFinancial LiteracyInvestmentsUncategorizedJune 14, 2016by Monika Halan0A strong rope allows you to jump off something high
How we deal with risk in our lives depends to a large extent on our growing up years.
Expense AccountInvestmentsUncategorizedDecember 26, 2013by Monika Halan0Six changes that will make the inflation-plus bond work
6 things RBI needs to do to get the retail investor to buy the inflation indexed bonds.
Expense AccountMintDecember 24, 2013by Monika Halan0The year that put aam-aadmi money concerns centre stage
Regulatory change is a long road. 2013, that seemed as the year when hope died, finally did its bit.
Expense AccountSeptember 4, 2013by Monika Halan04.5% growth can’t sustain 9% growth pegged lifestyles
Expense Account, Mint The looming clouds of disaster are now overhead as economic data quarter after quarter show how serious the downturn is and expose the government lies, doublespeak and market talk-up over the last three years. As veteran employees, we learn to decode the signals of a slowdown fairly quickly. At the beginning of...
Expense Account, Mint Two years ago, I had a dream. It was vivid as some dreams are. A giant elephant was being taken to be chained up. I remember waking up traumatized at the anguish of the animal at being pulled, pushed and dragged back to the place from where it had so recently got...
Expense Account, Mint You book a Delhi-Mumbai flight and the online travel site says the journey will take two hours. It takes four due to sudden bad weather. Would you use that site again? Sure—it wasn’t the fault of the site that the weather turned bad. Let’s complicate the story. Your paediatrician advises you against...
Expense AccountAugust 7, 2013by Monika Halan0To spot a future problem
Expense Account, Mint When retail investors begin to jump onto an investment idea that is either complicated or offers very high returns or both, you know that the end is near. We never hear of investors rushing suddenly to the idea that large-cap funds are so cool. Or that the Public Provident Fund is the...
Expense Account, Mint When I began researching why we count gold on the current account and not the capital account, I was simply seeking an answer to what looked like an illogical classification of a metal we know to be an asset. And as it is with most things, once you start pulling at a...