The Franklin Templeton (FT) story gets worse every few weeks. Reena Zachariah┬аreports┬аin The Economic Times that the fund house is trying to make a domestic capital market regulatory issue into a foreign policy issue for India. She reports that the global and Indian senior management of the fund house has reached out to the IndiaтАЩs...
When I wrote the raja beta and rani bitiya piece last week, I had no idea that it would touch such a nerve. As of today, the post on my personal blog has been viewed some 66,000 times and my first tweet reached more than 4.5 lakh people. There were many conversations around the topic as people weighed in with...
Retail investors are the last to know when things go wrong with their money. This is especially true of difficult-to-value-and-trade (in India) financial products such as bonds. The story gets even more complicated on how to treat bonds that behave like (or worse than) equity тАУ for example AT1 bonds. AT1 bonds are issued by...
Chucking a brand-new laptop into the family swimming pool to see if it was indeed waterproof, to barking into the phone to call the domestic help to raise the curtains that are two feet away from the bejeweled GenZ hand, to deliberately smashing a new phone after a fight with the parents. These are just...
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My first column in Bloomberg Opinion If youтАЩve ever spent significant time abroad, or tried supporting family overseas, you know that the process of sending money internationally can be stressful. It costs time and money тАФ┬аoften too much of both. ThereтАЩs hope that global crypto currencies will make this process easier, but until those become...
The number of policyholders is 30 crore. Assets under management are Rs 27.6 lakh crore (to see this in context, understand that the annual budget of India for FY 22 is Rs 34.8 lakh crore). An annual premium pipeline of Rs 3.4 lakh crore. A household name that for decades has meant life insurance in...
A new-found confidence over the well-handled Covid-19 crisis found its way into Budget 2021. This is reflected in three aspects of the budget. One, the finance minister ignored suggestions to tax the rich with a higher surcharge or a Covid-19 cess. Two, the government has gone for growth with a large push on capital spending....
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It is not often that an Economist and a government one at that is able to bring energy and passion in a speech. But IndiaтАЩs Chief Economic Advisor K V Subramanian managed the impossible when he presented the highlights of Economic Survey 2020-21 on 29 January 2021. Using stories to put across complex economic concepts,...