Segment 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym_lpQGh4q4 Segment 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC7vrd_-pqQ Segment 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcQVLSK_mPg
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
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
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
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 AccountFebruary 13, 2013by Monika Halan0How to steal a trillion
Expense Account, Mint When one lives in a country of over a billion people, big numbers seldom come as a surprise. But when I looked at the number of Rs.1.5 trillion, I was astounded. That’s about 1.5% of the Indian gross domestic product, was the first thought. But the number in the excel sheet looked back...
Expense Account, Mint It is not often that one finds an existential question in a dry piece of financial sector regulation. But read the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Investment Advisers Regulation 2013 (http://goo.gl/4b5RK) carefully and you find the question “who am I?” being asked of the financial intermediaries who face the retail...
Expense Account, Mint At the Financial Planning Standards Board’s annual congress last week in Mumbai, in which Mint was a media partner, the theme was consumer protection. Panellist Nilesh Shah of Axis Bank began his comments with this horse tale. In emperor Akbar’s stable there was a horse that preferred to eat grass over oats....
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...