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Monika does not promise to get you rich quick. There is no secret sauce that’s in short supply. She initiates you into a lifetime of good money habits.
Monika does not promise to get you rich quick. There is no secret sauce that’s in short supply. She initiates you into a lifetime of good money habits.
I was always struck by her focus on the consumer. She would ask all the hard questions about complex economic affairs and then work to communicate them simply to her audience
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I’m scared, Mr Dubey. Therefore I ask questions.
In today’s Hindustan Times Amitabh Dubey, a member of the Indian National Congress party’s manifesto committee has implied that I am a scaremonger. You can read this 23 April 2024 piece here. I have a few questions on this name calling. How is a citizen asking genuine questions about the intention of a political party...
Questions to the Congress on wealth redistribution | Hindustan Times
The Indian National Congress is promising to redistribute India’s wealth. At an election rally, the former president of the Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, according to newspaper reports, said that after a caste census, a financial and institutional survey will be conducted, following which a distribution of India’s wealth according to the population share will be...
Two seat-belts to safely invest in small-cap stocks
The recent Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) warning of a potential bubble in several small-cap stocks had taken some gains off a market that the regulator believed was getting overheated. Retail investors who had looked at the substantial returns in some small-cap funds and stocks over the past year and had rushed in...
About Monika
Monika Halan is a trusted personal finance writer, speaker and author who helps families get their money decisions right. She is the founder of Dhan Chakra Financial Education and the best-selling author of Let’s Talk Money that is now available in Hindi, Marathi and Punjabi as well. She is an Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Securities Markets, a Sebi-founded educational institution and at Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan. She is the Chairperson of Sebi Advisory Committee for Investor Protection and Education Fund.
She is a regular speaker on financial literacy, regulation, inclusion and consumer issues in retail finance. She has a Master’s in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a second Master’s in Journalism Studies from College of Cardiff, University of Wales, UK. She has worked across various media organisations in India, including Mint, The Economic Times and The Indian Express, and was Editor Outlook Money. She has run four successful TV series around personal finance in NDTV, Zee and Bloomberg India.
She was a Director on the Financial Planning Standards Board India and is a Member of the Editor’s Guild.
She is an author of the best-selling book Let’s Talk Money (Harper Collins, 2018). The Hindi translation Baat Paise Ki was released in 2020, Marathi and Punjabi in 2022. Her first book Seven Steps to Financial Freedom was published by Macmillan in 2005.
She was chosen as a Yale World Fellow in 2011 and was a Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany in 2022.
