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 Account, Mint The aftershocks of the torture and gang rape of the young woman in New Delhi, who died in a Singapore hospital on Saturday, are still palpable almost three weeks after the incident. In the form of the woman who suddenly stares down the man eyeing her in the closed confines of a...
Expense Account, Mint Gold is fantastic. Gold is a problem. Depending on who you are, you will choose one of these statements. For Indian households gold has emerged as the investment destination of choice. After declining over the first half of calendar year 2012, third quarter data shows an uptick in demand despite high prices...
Expense AccountOctober 31, 2012by Monika Halan1Markets sulk as rates remain stuck. Should you worry?
Expense Account, Mint Despite the finmin’s public appeal two days back, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor’s worries over inflation scored over growth concerns and he held onto the policy rates—the repo and reverse repo—though he did try to ease liquidity a bit and shaved another 25 basis points off the cash reserve ratio...
Expense AccountSeptember 12, 2012by Monika Halan0What happens when a Rs.20,000 crore industry is tamed?
Expense Account, Mint What we know anecdotally is now there as data in the Reserve Bank of India annual report 20011-12, that Indian household savings are moving from financial assets to real assets. The household savings rate has remained almost constant at about 23% of gross domestic product (GDP) (at current market prices) but there...
Expense AccountAugust 22, 2012by Monika Halan0Indian funds are the cheapest and cleanest in the world
Expense Account, Mint Now that the dust has settled over last week’s announcements by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and the merits or otherwise of the hike in mutual fund costs have been chewed over, two issues have emerged that still need a comment. One, that Indian funds are the most expensive...
Expense AccountAugust 15, 2012by Monika Halan0Is it financial freedom we want or hands-free money management?
Expense Account, Mint A friend’s driver got a Maruti Dzire as a gift along with his son’s bride. With plenty of ancestral land at his disposal, he does not need the job to pay his bills. But his ambition was to get an “office” job as a driver so he could set out each day...
Expense Account, Mint At some point I decided that to get a real flavour of what a mutual fund investor goes through, I need to stop using my agent and begin on my own. That was some time back, but the lessons from then still are sharp. And each time I facilitate somebody into using...