Resumption of Email Delivery

Long time readers will remember that there was a lot of problem with OneMint going down a few months ago. I had upgraded to a much better server and the problems had stopped. However, the problem resurfaced, and I got completely exasperated. I’ve changed hosts now, and moved to Synthesis Webhosting. So far it is [...]

Why are bonus shares issued and what are their advantages?

May 24, 2013

Rajeev posted the following comment yesterday: Rajeev Srivastava May 22, 2013 at 6:06 pm [edit] Hi Manshu, I am curious to know about implications of bonus issue of shares. Is there any existing post on this at onemint? Rajeev This is a good topic for a post, and I thought I would broaden the scope a little [...]

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Tanishq Gold Harvest Scheme Review

May 23, 2013

Manish Chauhan wrote about gold saving schemes recently and he briefly mentioned Tanishq Gold Harvest scheme in his article and I thought this was an interesting product. Main Benefit of a Gold Savings Scheme In the past when I’ve heard about gold savings schemes from jewelers, the primary benefit is that they allow you to [...]

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India’s Possible Electricity Export to Pakistan

May 22, 2013

I was surprised to read that Pakistan is contemplating importing 1,000 MW of electricity from India as I wasn’t aware that this has been discussed once earlier in 2012 as well. Pakistan faces shortage of electricity regularly, and needs some short term measures to bridge the gap between demand and supply, but the surprising part [...]

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India – China Trade Imbalance

May 21, 2013

India and China have a very skewed trade relationship in terms of relative importance of one to the other. China is by far India’s largest trading partner with a total trade of $75 billion between the two countries in 2012, but India doesn’t feature very high in China’s list. I was curious to see how [...]

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Just Dial IPO Review

May 20, 2013

Justdial offers local search services where you can search for a service around you using your cellphone, SMS, or just the internet. In fiscal 2012 they addressed 254.3 million searches on their platform, and that shows that it is a fairly big platform. I don’t think there is another local search engine in India that has [...]

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Understanding Inflation Indexed Bonds

May 17, 2013

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 Budget 2013 had “next to none” changes for the Indian taxpayers, investors or savers. As far as the investment options are concerned, some minor changes were [...]

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How to prepare for parents coming from India to USA?

May 15, 2013

I’ve often seen that when your parents first decide to vist you in the USA – a lot of time and energy goes into preparing for the visa, but once that is done, you don’t prepare as much for what they are going to do when they reach the country. As a result, parents get [...]

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Free Download: Excel RD Calculator

May 14, 2013

Reader Pattu had developed a great retirement calculator and shared it for free here on OneMint about two years ago, and several people have downloaded and benefitted from that calculator. Since then he has developed a few other calculators, and the latest is an Excel based RD calculator. You can download it here. Comprehensive RD [...]

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What is the meaning of premium waiver benefit?

May 7, 2013

One of the key things that insurance companies want to highlight in their child insurance plans is the premium waiver benefit, and Pankaj Parashar left a comment about this being the key feature of child insurances plans, and the need to look at it more closely. When I was going through the plans, it did [...]

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Comprehensive list of child insurance plans in India

May 6, 2013

One of the most common questions I get is about children insurance plans, and usually the comment is accompanied with the name of a plan and a request to review it. I am not too familiar with child insurance plans, and the problem with following this approach is that I don’t know if there are [...]

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