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Expense Account, Mint Until recently, bank branches were known anecdotally for trapping people into toxic insurance products. In a strange twist, employees at some bank outlets have themselves got trapped in the process of doing more than selling such products. If the expose by online magazine Cobrapost.com, which showed people it claimed were officials in...
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Expense Account, Mint Growing up in the 70s and 80s in urban middle India was to know what shortages are. The state strangled enterprise and everything from a scooter to a phone to butter, milk and grain was scarce. The civics and history textbooks stank of double standards as they spoke about an India that...
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Expense AccountFebruary 27, 2013by Monika Halan0A regulator retires and an industry insider takes over
Expense Account, Mint India’s third insurance regulator J. Hari Narayan demitted office last week and it would be no exaggeration to say that Indian insurance rules were rewritten during his tenure in the teeth of very strong opposition and lobbying by the industry. The regulator worked at turning an institution that looked at market development...
Expense AccountFebruary 27, 2013by Monika Halan0Forget about tax rates, look at a different set of numbers
Expense Account, Mint Despite the budget-day hysteria, in which there has been an increasing focus on the household and its reaction to the event, the average Indian home has very little to do with the annual expenditure and revenue statement of the government, also known as The Budget. I also think that attention has been...
Smart Money on Bloomberg TVFebruary 22, 2013by Monika Halan0Smart Money Episode 2
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Expense AccountFebruary 20, 2013by Monika Halan0The problems of long-run data results and medium-term living
Expense Account, Mint I like to talk about the efficacy of having equity in the portfolio because that is an asset class, I have been led to believe, which gives an inflation-plus return. But equity’s image as a super asset class beating the stuffing out of inflation has been under attack for a long time,...
Smart Money on Bloomberg TVFebruary 15, 2013by Monika Halan0Smart Money Episode 1
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