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Monthly Archives: June 2017

Took a decade for RBI to even accept that banks mis-sell

Posted on June 27, 2017 by monikahalan
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I don’t think there will be many people in urban India who do not have a bank mis-selling story to share. The systemic use of bank branches to mis-sell life insurance products and to churn mutual fund portfolios is now part of the urban Indian discourse. The problem is not new. I remember first raising the issue of banks mis-selling insurance and mutual fund products in 2007 with one deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). I was treated to lunch and anecdotes from those in the room of how people close to them were ripped off by banks. In fact, subsequently, in every committee I served on—Swarup Committee 2009 (bit.ly/2tLat6F) and Bose Committee 2015 (bit.ly/2rS3xmK)—the offline conversations included stories of bank branches turning into dens of tricks and traps. I’ve raised the issue of mis-selling with RBI, and with the ministry of finance, and so have others who work in this space, most notably Moneylife magazine (bit.ly/2t7r5HJ and bit.ly/2sHtN6b), which has raised it on multiple occasions. But the messaging that came down from the towers of oblivion on Mint Street was always the same: not our problem; let the sector regulators deal with this.

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Posted in Consumer Rights, Expense Account, Investments, Money Box, Mutual Funds | Tagged complain, insurance, misselling, mutual fund, ombudsman, RBI | Leave a reply

How does GST change your life

Posted on June 22, 2017 by monikahalan
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My Facebook live session with Pratik Jain of PwC.

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How to get to the 30% number

Posted on June 20, 2017 by monikahalan
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Column in HT

 

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How to save 30-40% of your income

Posted on June 20, 2017 by monikahalan
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As a kid I remember getting irritated whenever the old people would get together. Now they’ll start talking about how expensive everything is, I used to mutter. Back in those days, kids couldn’t utter aloud all the insidious little comments that were swimming around in their heads when adults were around. “Arrey, on a salary of twenty rupees you could run the house and then have something left over? That shawl mamijee wears, no? That cost a full five rupees. Now toh, you can’t buy it for five thousand only.” Everybody shakes their heads. “Tch tch. Zamana hi kharab hai (these are bad times).” As a kid I remember buying sweets for 5 paise and bus tickets cost 25 paise (and I’m on my way to irritating the life out of kids in the family). My daughter has never seen coins below one rupee. Her daughter will probably say the same for fifty bucks. The fall in purchasing power is the reason that we worry about meeting our expenses when we retire.

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Posted in Expense Account, Financial Literacy, Investments, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance | Tagged FDs, inflation, mutual fund, retirement, saving ratio, savings | Leave a reply

How much do you need to retire

Posted on June 17, 2017 by monikahalan
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How much money do I need to retire?

Posted on June 13, 2017 by monikahalan
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A guy I know wanted to retire when he was 25. He just didn’t have the money. If I get Rs1 crore, he said, then I’ll retire. Now, 30 years later, he’s still working and still not done with gathering the corpus he needs to retire. Anyway, he’s wiser and agrees that financial security and going to work need not be either/or. People can continue to work even if they are financially secure. But how much do we really need to save out of our incomes to know that we will hit retirement with enough to maintain our lifestyle for another 30 years? Every time I speak to a friend about buying a life cover, he tells me—the risk we have is not of dying too soon, but of living too long.

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Why we stick with SIPs and not endowment plans

Posted on June 6, 2017 by monikahalan
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Most of you who read this column are now investing in the right way, using a systematic investment plan (SIP). But did you know that your dull, boring SIP is the result of more than 10 years of regulatory change? Most of you have also discarded the low-return endowment plans and now purchase a pure term plan to look after your life insurance needs. But did you know that you got to the right solution not because of regulatory change but despite it. I’ve been mapping the Indian personal finance industry for over 15 years and the behaviour of two regulators in industries that both manage household money has been fascinating. We now have the data to show the impact of regulatory change in the mutual fund and the life insurance industries on firms, sellers and households. I will relate the story through four tables.

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Posted in Consumer Rights, Expense Account, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance | Tagged arbitrage, insurance, Irda, mutual fund, Sebi, SIP, Traditional plans, Ulip | Leave a reply

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