Month: July 2013

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

Weekend links July 20 2013
in Links

Let’s start this week with a great column that appeared in Business Standard about FCI’s dominance in food procurement and the absolute waste and corruption that is caused by it. Did you know that the highest paid loader gets Rs. 2.25 lakhs per month for simply loading grains in a truck? Ajah Shah has a
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Steep fall in Debt Fund NAVs – Reasons behind Tuesday’s Bloodbath
in Economy

This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in A 3%+ fall in the NAV of an equity mutual fund is somehow acceptable for an investor, as I think almost every investor knows equity markets
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Utility of US Based Funds in a Portfolio
in Investments

Before the financial crisis in 2008, emerging markets were very popular in the US and other developed countries, and people there wanted to take advantage of the relatively faster growth in emerging nations. The word ‘decoupling‘ was used quite often and it was believed that the emerging markets no longer depended on the US for
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Weekend links: July 12 2013
in Links

Governance and politics is on my mind this week and you will notice that in this week’s links. Let’s start the week with one that summarizes all that the UPA government has done wrong in this term. Whenever you hear from the supporters of schemes like MNREGA or Food Security Bill they talk about the
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Who is eligible to claim 80D deduction?
in Tax

Any amount paid by an Individual or HUF to an Insurance company as Medical Insurance Premium i.e. premium paid in respect of Mediclaim Policy can be claimed as deduction under section 80D subject to certain limits. (Read: Details on Section 80D, 80DD and 80DDB) I got the following question about this section the other day: Sir,
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Shriram Transport Finance NCD Issue – 2013-14
in Fixed Deposits

This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in Regular readers of OneMint must be quite familiar with NCDs or non-convertible debentures. There have been many such NCD issues in the past couple of years
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Why Good News for US Economy is a Bad News for Indian Economy, Indian Rupee & Indian Markets?
in Economy, Opinion

This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in US economy is recovering fast and probably faster than most of the analysts had expected a few months back. Earlier these analysts had a view that
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