Expense AccountFinancial LiteracyInvestmentsMutual FundsPersonal FinanceJune 20, 2017by Monika Halan0How to save 30-40% of your income
It is easier than you think to get to the 30% saving number. I continue the conversation on retirement.
InvestmentsMoney BoxMutual FundsPersonal FinanceUncategorizedJune 17, 2017by Monika Halan0How much do you need to retire
My column on retirement in HT
Expense AccountSeptember 11, 2013by Monika Halan0What slowing growth has to do with why we’re feeling so low
Expense Account, Mint Have you been feeling low lately? Generally pessimistic and grumpy? I met a colleague in the lift bay and swapped stories. A fund manager drops by to meet me and we discuss how everybody feels much older than before. That the last 10 years feel like 20. Many conversations over the past...
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 AccountJuly 24, 2013by Monika Halan0Joint family finances: minefield of embedded emotional boms
Expense Account, Mint It’s been just over five months since I began doing a weekly personal finance show on Bloomberg India TV. Called Smart Money, the show is about offering strategies to people who are looking for hands-free money management. It’s for people who want to put in place a grid that they can service...
Expense Account, Mint So it comes to pass that Aniruddha Bahal (the editor of Cobrapost.com, the online magazine that caught on camera bankers in over 20 banks across the country offering to launder money) is after all not blackmailing the banks. Neither, it seems, was he shorting bank stocks. The banking regulator fined 22 banks...
Expense Account, Mint OK. So there is one more acronym to remember and deal with. Jostling for space with PAN, KYC and UID is a newly born creature. Meet the little fledgling—it’s called the EUIN or the Employee Unique Identification Number. When it grows up, it will cover the three million sellers of financial products...
Expense Account, Mint When I began doing a personal finance show on TV about seven years ago, I was inundated by stock tip seeking questions. But I was clear that what we were setting out to do was financial literacy and not giving cheap stock tips. It took work to nudge the questions in a...