Here is the uncensored, unedited view of Aviva India…..my views you have already read right? well read on…. Union Budget – Reaction from TR Ramachandran, CEO & MD, Aviva India Mr. Finance Minister, through this budget, has tried to give a big push to infrastructure, incentivise savings through financial instruments and property particularly at the […]

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Hindu Business Line is a good newspaper….and they normally do good stories. Here is a story based on THEIR reporting of the Rajiv Gandhi Equity Scheme. Most people have not been able to comment on the RGES because the details are sketchy. From the Hindu Business Line article, I learn that: It is a scheme […]

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Where exactly are we headed? – A government which has no clue what is happening. The Finance Minister talks about a 8% growth. The reality is more like a 6.5% growth (well the government says 7.1 with a downward bias) -The Rupee headed towards 55 if not worse. -The RBI wondering what to do. It […]

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Well, well. State Bank of India got a new Chairman and he wanted to start on a clean slate. Well the new broom cleans well…and it did. He decided to provide for the pensions as well as clean up the NPA requirement. This is a very bad reflection on O P Bhatt who had hidden […]

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I had done the following post in the 1st week of June, 2006. Except for the numbers, the story is just as fine. It originally appeared in the Personal finance section of moneycontrol.com Okay, so the market fell 1,100 points on 22 May 2006, it fell 350 points on 31 May 2006 and another 327 […]

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I hate reading ‘draft proposals’ – and this hatred came from the student days hangover. When we were studying for the CA exam we had to know the ‘ACT’ and the changes that were made in the 6 months before the exam. Now if we read the ‘draft provisions’ there was a chance that we […]

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Most people I know pay taxes and also file tax returns. However to say that they file taxes honestly is a little difficult to say. As a social psychologist if you do analyze why people do not pay taxes, the following seem to be the reasons: a. Does not seem reasonable: Why should I pay […]

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