InvestmentsMoney BoxPersonal FinanceApril 18, 2017by Monika Halan0Markets are rising. Be alert to hard sales
When markets rise all kind of hard sales begin. This is an alert to investors on what sellers are doing to push their commissions,
Expense AccountFinancial LiteracyInvestmentsMoneyPersonal FinanceFebruary 28, 2017by Monika Halan0When debt funds malfunction
If investors can't rely on fund ratings, what should they rely on. When Taurus AMCs debt funds fell 7% to 11% over a day, they all had good ratings.
Expense AccountInvestmentsMutual FundsPersonal FinanceOctober 25, 2016by Monika Halan0It takes decades to build a profession
Few people know that it took decades to turn a medical practice into a profession in the US. Financial planners and advisers will take at least 10 more years to get there.
Expense AccountFinancial LiteracyInvestmentsMutual FundsPersonal FinanceOctober 11, 2016by Monika Halan1Sebi says distributors cannot advise
Good guys suffer due to the bad guys. Sebi tightens IFA rules because some agents advise without being responsible.
Expense Account, Mint Sixteen years ago, when I switched jobs from the leader in daily business news to join a start-up magazine that aimed to help average middle-class people manage their money, there was more than one comment on the foolhardiness of doing this. Business journalism was corporate-facing and personal finance as a genre did...
Expense Account, Mint It is always the transition generation that finds it the most difficult to adjust to change. I was a rookie business journalist in 1992 when the Harshad Mehta scam broke and the securities market reform began. I remember talking to a small stock broker in Delhi discussing the incipient changes. Sitting far...