Monika Halan The success of the Bharat Bond issue where PSU bonds were sold through an exchange-traded fund (ETFs are mutual funds that mimic an index and list on the stock exchange) and the use of ETFs earlier for equity disinvestment of public sector firms h... More »
Monika Halan Is the fee hike at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) from ₹10 and 20 to ₹300 and 600 a month respectively as rent for a hostel room fair or not? Judging by the way student mobs are rampaging, this is the next thing after the Bengal famine to hit I... More »
Monika Halan Very often, when we embark on the journey of financial planning, we can get caught up in the process and forget the purpose. A too-tight focus on money and its care has the potential to leach away the joy that money can bring. And equally on the o... More »
Monika Halan There are always those two or three days in a five- to seven-year period that patient equity investors wait for. They wait for these days not just to see the value of their money go up, but also to quietly push back at the jibes of non-equity beli... More »
Monika Halan Putting at rest months of post-budget gloom, the Indian markets roared back on Friday as the finance minister announced a reduction in corporate income tax. In an unexpected move, the dismissed-as-a-newbie to finance,Nirmala Sitharaman used a smar... More »
Monika Halan A few years ago, a friend asked if she could get her friend to talk to me. On the promise of anonymity, he spoke to me. He had made the mistake of following his adviser from one portfolio management scheme (PMS) to another. He said that the firm h... More »
Monika Halan It looked as if the rain would derail the annual Mint Mutual Fund Conclave in Mumbai where every year we debate issues related to the industry and investors. This year since we had the chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, Bi... More »
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Monika Halan The election was called at 10:50 am by the external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj who congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and thanked the electorate for this verdict. The votes were still being counted but the early morning trends were cle... More »
Monika Halan Ahead of an event, we were gathered in the 25th floor office of the chairman, in the iconic Bombay Stock Exchange building. A building you enter after paying obeisance to the five foot high, eight foot long, one tonne raging bull stationed at the ... More »
Monika Halan The next few generations may be able to dis-inherit the genetic bequeaths of diabetes or cancer or other ailments that parents have passed on to their offspring. Progress in genetics and medicine could make freedom from such bequeaths a matter of ... More »
Monika Halan Banks don’t mis-sell financial products in India. That is the conclusion we can draw from the annual report of the Banking Ombudsman (BO) for the year July 2017 to June 2018, where a tiny 0.4% of the total complaints made to the Ombudsman were rel... More »
Monika Halan We complain about the AC being too cold. Or the coffee machine spewing drain-water. The lifts are slow. The benefits shrink. The increments thin. We groan about Monday mornings. But take that job away and there is sudden sound of silence. The rout... More »