Yesterday evening a friend called up to say ..in 1995 we saw the birth of the Mutual Fund industry in 2015 will we see the end? Well to start with there is no ‘take over of a mutual fund’ as the whole world will report today. I think L&T Asset Management Company will take over […]
No clue how the market will react to this news of Fidelity being taken over by L&T Mutual Fund! I have had a couple of calls from investors in equity schemes who may pull out their money. However Fidelity has a lot of institutional debt which may not panic from this change of management. It […]
If you are an investor how many fund schemes do you need to know / track / understand? Well if you are like me 3 a maximum of 5. However if you are a person who thinks that all problems in life can be solved by mutual funds, maybe 10. Normally people save for […]
Will somebody explain the ONE day fluctuation of NAV by -7% followed by a +7% between 28th Feb to 29th Feb and 29th Feb to 1st March… not mentioning the Fund house name…many of u tracking NAV closely may have seen it. Beats me. In a Cap protection plan (i am assuming huge %age of […]
here is what I said on Cnbc TV…about investing in Mutual Funds…. there were 3 people asking questions…and clearly they were investing nice amounts for long periods of time. I think all 3 did not understand the POWER of compounding. the first caller was investing Rs. 15000 pm for a period of 20 years..and wanted […]
Hrishikesh Mukherjee made about 50 films, including Satyakam, Chupke Chupke, Anupama, Anand, Abhimaan, Guddi, Gol Maal, Namak Haraam – films that I can see again and again and again…and I still cannot call him the best. Dev Anand and Nav Ketan films made Taxi Driver, Guide, Jewel Thief,….et al. Raj Kapoor’s Shree 420, Aan, Jis […]
Well, one equities dealer was caught with his hand in the till….he is said to have benefited by Rs. 2 crores. Hdfc Trustee company has been fined Rs. 55 lakhs. The structure of an amc is such that the Trustees are responsible to certify that the internal processes are fine and working. Obviously it was […]