Smart Money on Bloomberg TVFebruary 22, 2013by Monika Halan0Smart Money Episode 2
Segment 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAwpqSRs2aE Segment 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOtMiNilF0 Segment 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3_M8fZgHZA
Smart Money on Bloomberg TVFebruary 15, 2013by Monika Halan0Smart Money Episode 1
Segment 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0jz2V657J8 Segment 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMwe0Qe7TII Segment 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gScVQpSioQI
Expense Account, Mint A friend worries about not doing enough for her daughter. The daughter’s now married and has a girl of her own. The single mum, my friend, periodically calls up to ask what she should do for her daughter. Of late the calls have been more frantic. She’s afraid that she’s been left...
Expense AccountOctober 24, 2012by Monika Halan0Difference between 1.25% and 2.25% in cost can be in lakhs
Expense Account, Mint Two years ago when the team at Mint Money created Mint50 (the latest listing here: http://goo.gl/23Qon) our aim was to pick out investment-worthy funds from a large pool of over 2,000 funds. The usual processes of getting a robust methodology in place (you can read it here: http://goo.gl/guZtN) and getting a good data vendor...
Expense AccountSeptember 26, 2012by Monika Halan0Insurance regulator reads out the riot act to insurers
Expense Account, Mint The relief across the financial sector is palpable. North Block is now under the control of a minister who has not delegated the work to a compromised cabal. And even better, he is a person who understands the markets and finance. After the mutual fund announcements last week, this week the ministerial...
Expense AccountMarch 21, 2012by Monika Halan0Is it okay for top universities to auction seats and other questions
Expense Account, Mint What is your first reaction if you come to know that 10% of seats in the Indian Institutes of Technology will be auctioned to the highest bidder from this year? What if a rich privately funded foreign university like Harvard does the same? Is it okay to pay children to read to...
Expense Account, Mint The world hit the Millennium Development Goal (set in 1990) of halving poverty five years ahead of time in 2010, but delve deeper into the numbers and it is clear that India has reason to worry. It has been China’s ability to take 660 million people out of poverty that has powered...
Expense AccountMarch 7, 2012by Monika Halan0Should the ONGC issue bailout by LIC worry you, the policyholder?
Expense Account, Mint Last week’s bailout of the ONGC stake sale by Life Insurance Corp. of India (LIC) has turned the spotlight on an institution that is a household name in India and now finds itself being publicly questioned over its investment decisions. Should you be worried about your money in government-owned LIC that was...
Expense AccountJune 22, 2011by Monika Halan0RBI’s unanswerable 29 questions and lessons for merchant bankers
Expense Account, Mint As a rookie reporter I was petrified that I would not be able to provide enough detail in a story under the editing keyboard of my editor. After looking stupid several times, I would set out to interview with a list of questions that included the name of the CEO’s dog, the...
Expense Account, Mint You and I are really important to the country. Did you know that we are the human shields that protect the nation? Against bank failures, against financial exclusion, against insurance exclusion, and against starvation of insurance agents. While working on the Swarup Committee Report a couple of years back, I had reason to go...