Mint Dialogues: Recent Episodes
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Mint engages with a panel of experts in the world of personal finance on a weekly basis to help investors get better returns. The sessions go deep into the big questions of the day around stock markets, bonds, IPOs and much else.
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In this episode, Mint's Satya Sontanam speaks to Sumit Ramani, co-founder of ProtectMeWell.com about what endowment policies are and if one should continue holding them if already taken.
Here’s is the excel link that we discussed in the podcast -
Endowment insurance: to continue or not - https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1mpbEcK15d_jFujX0zDJT91o2ueyXjmvj?usp=sharing&s=08
Mint talks to Divya Baweja, Partner from Deloitte India to break-down the tax announcements made in the Budget 2022. The conversation includes tax treatment of crypto currencies, work from home allowances and time period to file the updated returns.
In this episode, Mint's Satya Sontanam speaks to Nikhil Kamath, Co-Founder Zerodha on why he thinks inheritance tax has to be reintroduced in India. Nikhil makes a point that by taxing affluent once a generation and reducing the current income tax rates will not only widen the tax base but also encourage entrepreneurship in India. Tune in to know more!
Mint's Neil Borate speaks to Sifra Lentin of Gateway House on the opium trade that built fortunes in Bombay in the mid 1800s
With many fund houses queued up to launch silver exchange-traded funds (ETFs ) after SEBI’s approval last year, we discuss if one should consider investing in the white metal.
In this episode, Mint's Satya Sontanam speaks to Kaustubh Gupta, Co-Head of Fixed Income at Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC about what an yield curve is, what are the different types of curves, what do they indicate and how to make investment decision based on an yield curve. Tune in to know more!
As we enter the third year of the post-pandemic era, our panel will discuss the threats (virus variants, inflation), and opportunities (economic recovery) for Indian investors.
Panellists:
Aashish Somaiyaa – CEO, White Oak Capital
Kalpen Parekh – CEO, DSP Mutual Fund
Prableen Bajpai – Founder, Finfix Research and Analytics
Amit Bivalkar – CEO, Sapient Wealth Advisors
In this episode, Mint's Satya Sontanam speaks to Tarun Birani, the Founder and Director of TBNG Capital Advisors about the Core-Satellite investing strategy. Birani explains how a portfolio can be constructed using this strategy and the key points to note. Tune in to know more!
The year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of imperial bank, a bank that later morphed into today's SBI. Mint speaks to Sifra Lentin, Bombay History Fellow at Gateway House about this institution and what led to its eventual transformation into SBI.
In this episode, Mint's Satya Sontanam speaks to Nitin Shanbhag, Head – Investment Products, Motilal Oswal Private Wealth about asset allocation. Nitin explains about the importance of asset allocation and how can one go about it. Tune in to know more!
Long before the days of Harshad Mehta, another big bull dominated Indian finance before falling prey to his own success. Sifra Lentin, Fellow, Bombay History Studies at Gateway House speaks to Neil Borate of Mint on India's first 'big bull' Premchand Roychand, the cotton and stock market boom of the 1860s and the collapse that followed. Lentin explains Roychand's legacy for Indian investors and businessmen.
Actor Salman Khan recently associated himself with India’s first 'social token'. Since July, India has had 7 new NFT marketplaces. But how do you buy and own them? What stops an NFT from losing value? The experts are Praphul Chandra, Founder, KoineArth; Pareen Lathia, Founder, Buidler's Tribe; Vishakha Singh, VP, WazirX NFT; and Srinivas Jain, Executive Director, SBI Mutual Fund
JP Morgan recently said institutional investors are preferring Bitcoin as an inflation hedge over gold. We ask a panel of experts if they should decrease gold allocation to add Bitcoin to their portfolio. The panel included Priti Rathi Gupta, Founder, LXME; Sidharth Sogani, Founder & CEO, CREBACO Global; Asheesh Chanda, Founder & CEO, Kristal.Ai; Harshad Chetanwala, Co-Founder, MyWealthGrowth.
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Low-interest rates on bank deposits combined with high consumer inflation have made a real returns on FDs negative. Mint speaks to a panel of experts on fixed income opportunities for safety-seeking investors.
Panel Members: Niranjan Avasthi - Head - Product, Marketing, & Digital Business, Edelweiss AMC Dilshad Billimoria - MD, Dilzer Consultants Vijai Mantri - Co-Founder, and Chief Investment Strategist, JRL Money Prasanna M - Head - Distribution, Vivriti Asset Management
Shiba Inu recently surged 35% after Coinbase listed the meme token on its platform. Shiba Floki spiked 1,000% after Elon Musk tweeted ‘Floki has arrived’. Meme coins or meme-based cryptocurrencies are volatile and unpredictable. We ask a panel of experts are meme coins worth the risk? The panel included Deepali Sen, Founder, Srujan Financial Services LLP; Gaurav Dahake, Founder & CEO, Bitbns; Rajagopal Menon, vice president-marketing, WazirX; and Atulya Bhatt, chief marketing officer, BuyUcoin
Driven by the rally in crypto assets over the last year, many investors in India took to investing in virtual currencies in hopes of making windfall gains. We ask a panel of experts how earnings from cryptocurrencies should be disclosed in an ITR form and what their legal status in India might be. The panel includes Naveen Wadhwa, Deputy General Manager, Taxmann; Divya Baweja, Partner, Deloitte India; Amit Singhania, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co; and Mathew Chacko, Partner, Spice Route Legal.
SIPs are touted as the magic formula of wealth creation, but are there things to keep in mind? How long should a SIP be and on what dates?
Panel Members:
Swarup Mohanty, CEO, Mirae Asset Mutual Fund Prableen Bajpai, Founder, Finfix Research and Analytics Neelabh Sanyal, Co-Founder, Kuvera Rushabh Desai - Mutual Fund Distributor
Cardano has become the world’s third-biggest cryptocurrency after bitcoin and ether. Mint asks experts what has fueled this surge and how far the rally can sustain. The panel includes Naimish Sanghvi, Founder, Coin Crunch India; Nirmal Ranga, Vice-President-Trading, ZebPay; Hitesh Malviya, founder, itsblockchain.com; Sidharth Sogani, Founder & CEO, CREBACO Global. The moderator is Abhinav Kaul, assistant editor, Mint.
Mint asks a panel of experts about a key question in personal finance - how to save and invest to attain a Rs 1 crore corpus. Panelists include Aashish Somaiyya, CEO, White Oak Capital, Deepali Sen, founder Srujan Financial Advisors, Anant Ladha, founder, Invest Aaj for Kal and Sandeep Jethwani, founder, dezerv. with Neil Borate, Senior Assistant Editor, Mint, moderating.
RBI deputy governor T Rabi Sankar recently said that the central bank is working towards a phased implementation strategy for a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Mint asks a panel of experts how a CBDC will work. The panel includes Tanvi Ratna, CEO and founder, Policy 4.0; Ananth Narayan, associate professor, SPJIMR; Ajeet Khurana, founder, Genezis Network; Siddharth Menon, co-founder & COO, WazirX; and Naimish Sanghvi, founder, Coin Crunch India. The moderator is Abhinav Kaul, assistant editor, Mint.
After nearly a decade of slowing growth, the real estate market in India is showing tentative signs of revival. Mint asks a panel of experts about how strong this nascent trend is. The panel includes Kumaran C, Fund Manager, AIF Credit, Sundaram Alternates, Deepali Sen, Founder, Srujan Financial Services LLP, Shekhar Tomar, Asst Prof, Economics and Public Policy, ISB Hyderabad, Virendra Joshi, Senior Vice President, Research, ANAROCK Property Consultants and Mani Rangarajan, Group COO, Housing.com, Makaan.com and Proptiger.com.
Investing outside India can increase your returns and reduce your risk. But how do you go about it and what are the risks? Mint asks a panel of experts
This week, Mint discusses IPO investing as large consumer-facing such as Zomato and Paytm get into the process of going public. We look at key questions such as investing for listing gains or whether one should invest after the company's shares start trading the market is able to better price the issue. The panel includes Roopali Prabhu, CIO, Sanctum Wealth, Aditya Kondawar, COO, JST Investments, Rahul Goel, CEO, Equitymaster and Nirajan Awasthi, Head Product, Marketing and Digital Business at Edelweiss Mutual Fund. We were also joined somewhat unexpectedly but much to our delight by Anish Teli of QED Capital and Srinivas Jain, Executive Director at SBI Mutual Fund.
A spectacular rise in India's stock market close to its all-time high has turned many investors fearful while others have been emboldened to invest more. Taking our cue from one of Warren Buffett's most popular lines, we ask a panel of experts to decode the reality of today's market - is it time to be greedy or fearful?