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Hiding ULIP Commissions: Riding on Confusing Customers

A friend recently told me about Birla Sun Life’s Dream Plan and how they had “zero commissions”. The skeptic that I am of greedy ULIPs and ...

Low Cost Housing – Not quite "Altruistic"

Forbes India on Jerry Rao’s New New Thing: His hypothesis is a simple one. India’s real estate boom was built around its emerging middle class. Nobody ...

PFRDA Opens the New Pension Scheme (NPS) to all citizens

PFRDA – a horrendously complex acronym for a pension fund regulator has opened up the New Pension Scheme (NPS) to all citizens. Read the Offer Document, ...

RBI cuts rates by 0.25%

The Reserve Bank of India, in its credit policy today announced a rate cut of 0.25% on both repo and reverse repo rates, to 4.75% and 3.25% respectively. The ...

Analysts Getting It Wrong, And No Recovery?

John Mauldin’s latest, Is this Recovery that we see? brings up some interesting points about where we are and if this really is a recovery. A ...

Inflation at 0.26%, IIP at -1.2%, PMI still underwater

WPI Inflation has come down to 0.26%, an all time low. The 10 year bond yield suddenly dropped from 6.95% yesterday to 6.69% today, something quite strange as ...

Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) – A Flawed Index? (For Now)

Recently I’ve been hearing a lot about how the Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) is still very high, even though the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) has been ...

How far from Deflation?

Deflation is just about there, on a wholesale price basis. It’s true though, that at a wholesale level, prices of food seem to be going up. Yet, that is ...

RBI rejects government bond auction bids

From ET: The Reserve Bank of India has rejected all the bids received in the auctions held today for the sale of “7.46 per cent Government Stock ...

Protectionism will hit Employment, not Goods

From the Wall Street ...