Month: March 2013

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

Weekend Links: March 29 2013
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Let’s start this week with a Business Standard editorial that examines the causes that have led to our big current account deficit, and also why it is a cause of  worry for us. BusinessWeek has a great article on how Samsung became the world’s number 1 smart phone manufacturer. The situation in Cyprus is not
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Bad News All Around: All time high Current Account Deficit
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RBI released numbers on India’s Balance of Payments for Oct – Dec 2012 today (Read: What is Balance of Payments?) and I think the release is  full of bad news. The headline grabbing number was the record high CAD (Current Account Deficit) which was 6.7% of GDP for the quarter, and a detailed look at
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Section 80EE: New section In budget to allow increased housing loan deduction
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This article is written by Aashish Ramchand, a Chartered Accountant by profession. Aashish is the co-founder of makemyreturns.com. He also has completed his CFA Level I (American) and is very passionate about writing articles on taxes and tax advisory. He can be reached at connect@makemyreturns.com A new section has been introduced in the income tax act i.e.
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Weekend links March 8 2013
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In a little bit of hurry, so will keep this short. Regulator gives NPS funds managers quiet nod to invest directly in stocks: LiveMint has an important story on how changes are being made to the NPS structure correctly. I’ll have a full post on this sometime in the coming week. China’s growth: a bountiful half
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FundsIndia to give a 1 gm gold coin to 5 lucky women
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From looking at comments and email exchanges of regular readers, I’ve always had a feeling that the ratio of women to men reading OneMint is higher when compared to other blogs. I don’t have any stats to prove this, and I don’t know if this is just perception or reality, but it certainly did surprise
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Budgetonomics Review
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Deepak Shenoy and Dheeraj Singh have teamed up to write a short ebook on the recent budget called Budgetonomics: Demystifying Budget 2013, and the result is great! It is short at 40 pages, and it took me less than ten minutes to breeze through the ebook yesterday. It costs Rs. 99 or $2 and was
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