Happy Dhanteras! Though if you can buy diamonds, you are already prosperous, right! (btw, the title was an ad copy of a diamond brand that I saw in the papers today) Yes, money makes money and you can use the…
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Posted in Miscellaneous
Innovations in the Insurance Industry
When the private insurance companies started their operations in 2001, that is a decade ago, there was widespread optimism that customers would benefit out of the competition. But please tell me about the customer centric innovations that have happened over…
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Posted in Insurance, Miscellaneous
Why Charge Customers For Prepaying Loans?
NHB has announced no prepayment penalty for housing loans. I came across the term, Prepayment Penalty while I was working with a Housing Finance company in 2003. I was intrigued and I asked around why there was such a charge.…
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Posted in Loans
The Secret behind Success; From The Psy-Fi Blog
I enjoy reading this blog on a look at Psychology and Finance called the Psy-Fi Blog. Check out this post on the secret of a healthy, wealthy life Excerpts: …People, we know, generally aren’t very good with money. …. Yet…
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Posted in Financial Behaviour
Weekly Updates on Personal Finance
Here are the links on personal finance that has been posted on my website on personal finance. 6 Financial Planning Misconceptions Demystified The Three Types of Advertorials What is the cost of delayed financial planning? Parenting To Raise Financially Smart…
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Posted in Weekly Digest
Kudos to Banking Ombudsman and Paritosh
This blog has been a small cog in the wheel of resolving customer grievances and I am sharing one such story. The trailing email thread tells it all and the summary is that Paritosh was fined Rs 11800 as fine…
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Posted in Miscellaneous
Advertisers Focus on Seducing rather than Persuading
Want to share this post with you about how emotional ads are processed quite differently by the brain than those that appeal to logic. Link to the full post. Excerpts: Researchers had subjects view different ads, some that used logical…
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Posted in Financial Behaviour
