One big PSU bank – which has been actively wooing me to open an account- called me and offered me a credit card. Here is the story. No exaggeration. Please believe me, it is the absolute truth. I anyway did not want the card, so can laugh at it, but if somebody wanted a card […]
This post was triggered by Deepak Shenoy’s article about the regulator… I was a little amused that the cases mentioned even got ‘caught’ . First things first. What is a soft dollar commission or should i say soft rupee commission… I will have to go a little into technical details, so please bear with me. […]
Well Sebi says the fund industry will be able to charge 2.75% p.a. as fund expenses. Since you will bear the service tax, brokerage, etc. assuming that it will cost you about 3% p.a. is a fair call. This is charged on a weekly basis, so you need to take the impact of weekly compounding. […]
When I say banking, I mean banking, broking, mutual funds, insurance, software companies in the BFSI space. So let us revisit the laws: 1. Golden Rule of Life: He who has the gold makes the rules. If your name is Diamond, even better. 2. Salaries are NOT decided by demand and supply: It is […]
Ralph Nader said about General Motors long ago. I am saying this about the Indian Equity markets, now. The problem with investors, wannabe investors, scared of the market investors…is they keep learning, but most of the times the learn the wrong lessons. ‘I have made money on ESOPs’: Well if you had Esops of Indiainfoline, […]
There are so many listed banks that it is not funny. Sadly most of them have the same (not even similar, same!) business model. Open more branches, appoint relationship managers, do third party sales – mutual funds, life insurance, real estate,…etc. Hopefully the interest rate spreads will make some money, the 3rd party products […]
Hey the agency model is NOT working. Well it is not working as it was intended to at least. A group of people start a bank. They work in the bank. Then they appoint employees to work there. They appoint qualified people. These people are supposed to be moral, ethical, ….etc. These people cheat. They […]