Month: April 2011
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
Ralph Lauren’s cars, new CPI, how fish Tweet and others
in Links
First off, The Big Picture has photos from the car collection of Ralph Lauren. The toys rich people have! Next up, a very good account on how STPs are being misused by Dhirendra Kumar. You might be aware that a new CPI has been announced, and Ajay Shah has an excellent post on it. Hemant
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How do I design my graphics?
in Opinion
This is another post from the Suggest a Topic page, and in this post I’m going to explore how I create the graphics in my posts. A lot of you have complimented me for these graphics so I think there is a fair amount of interest in them, and although I don’t do anything fancy,
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Risk is harder to read
in Investing for Beginners
Almost every other day there’s a comment from someone who wants to know what the best investment is – one that will give him the highest return. There’s no inquiry about risk, and that’s not surprising because people new to investing don’t really understand or even think about risk. It’s only after you’ve burned your
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Is investing in FDs alone enough?
in Economy
Last week someone asked this question in a comment. More specifically: The person estimates that if his daughter were to be married today it would cost about Rs. 5 lacs. He has this 5 lacs today, and wanted to know what would happen if he deposited this in a fixed deposit and took it out
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Free Perfios at TFL, Free Plan at Investologic, Gold Mania and Planned Chaos
in Links
Hemant is running a contest on his site where he is going to give away one free copy of PERFIOS which is a personal finance software – the entry rules are easy (as they usually are in these contests), so if you are interested then do check out his post. I’ve been playing around with
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Is it at least better than what you have today?
in Opinion
About 3 weeks ago I wrote about a working paper written by India’s chief economic adviser: Kaushik Basu in which he suggested that for a certain class of bribes which he termed harassment bribes – the bribe giver should be given immunity so that he can later on take action against the person who took
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India ETF Listed in US: Which one did best?
in ETF
This post is about ETFs listed in the US that allows American investors to invest in India. There are currently 7 such India ETFs, and the biggest among them is Wisdom Tree’s India Earnings Fund (EPI), which is over 3 years old and has assets worth about $1.5 billion. Powershares India Portfolio (PIN) is the
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FMP: Taxation and FD Comparison
in Mutual Funds
FMP (Fixed Maturity Plans) are the biggest category of mutual funds in India, and when this topic was suggested – my first thought was why did it take so long for it to appear here. FMP: Close Ended Mutual Funds FMPs are close ended mutual funds and have gained in popularity due to their relatively
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NRO vs NRE Account
in NRI
Updated on Jan 9 2012 A few days ago I wrote about how you could open a NRE / NRO account while still abroad, and some people had a question on which is the better among the two. Like most other things – it depends on what your specific needs are but now the big
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FT India Dynamic PE Ratio Fund of Funds
in Mutual Funds
This is another post from the Suggest a Topic page, and this time we’re going to take a look at what a Dynamic PE ratio fund is, and look at one such fund – the FT India Dynamic PE Ratio Fund in detail. As the name suggests – a dynamic PE fund allocates its money
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India’s big population, huge inflation and large insurance market
in Links
My links post is normally an aggregate of unrelated topics because I save good articles throughout the week, and then write this post sometime late Friday. This week however I find that most links have the central theme of something big that pertains to India. To start with I was going through the Census Website,
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India’s External Debt: Detailed look at the numbers
in Economy
I was looking at India’s External Debt for December 2010 (pdf), and came across several things that I didn’t know about earlier. So, I thought I’d write about them and here is a post with some interesting aspects about India’s external debt. Government versus Non- Government Debt When we talk about India’s external debt –
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