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 The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) long overdue guidelines on wealth management and distribution of financial products such as insurance policies and mutual funds by banks were uploaded on its website on 28 June. The guidelines can be accessed here:http://bit.ly/11xD6DZ and comments sent to the RBI till the end of July. The final...
Expense Account, Mint When I began researching why we count gold on the current account and not the capital account, I was simply seeking an answer to what looked like an illogical classification of a metal we know to be an asset. And as it is with most things, once you start pulling at a...
Expense Account, Mint Why do gold imports get counted in the current account and not the capital account in a country’s balance of payment (BoP) accounts? The origin of the question stems from the unfairness of the wholesale blame that Indian household gets for soaking up a quarter of the yearly world demand for gold...
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...
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Expense Account, Mint I’m watching Jolly LLB (and if you write columns as a profession, you can’t just watch anything without the brain firing away and looking for raw material to chew on for future work) and as the movie me-lords its way to the end, where the small town guy wins against the corrupt five-star lawyer...
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