The Financial Literacy program should start at the Finance Ministry. The FM says ‘Insurance Industry suffers …because of mis-selling’. Bang on. If LIC does not mis-sell and collect huge premia on endowment plans (by the way ULIPs are just a form of endowment plans), who will bail out the PSU companies coming out with IPOs, […]

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In an earlier post I had spoken about 3 people’s attitude about money. Today it is another set of people. I met a 82 year old lady – very active, agile, smart and with a fantastic memory. She had taken up a job when she was 18 years old for a princely salary of Rs. […]

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