Many people look at the ratings of a mutual fund before investing in them. This is what is the intention of the rating agencies! However they will tell you that ratings are backward looking (there is only Mercer which does forward looking ratings, but obviously available at a very high fee – which is fair […]

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The CEO of a company, the COO of a brokerage company and the Head of Operations of a BPO thanked me for introducing them to this brilliant concept of SIP. I have written enough about SIP – and I strongly believe it requires a brilliant mind to understand simple things – and Providence to help […]

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Indian mutual funds will soon have to report their monthly, quarterly and annual numbers to the regulatory authority (SEBI) in XBRL. For doing this they need to buy a software which will convert their excel sheets into xbrl documents. This tool is a must because the returns have to go very often (MCR is a […]

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Well this is not an article on Exchange Traded funds, but there is a link at the bottom which will take you an ETF article. The financial services industry (like all other industries) is very smart. Highly qualified people – from CPAs, CAs. CFAs, engineers, PhDs…..have to be kept intellectually occupied and financially happy. To […]

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So now the mutual fund industry can sell its units abroad…and the limit is US $ 10 billion. Fairly obviously the media is excited (they need to do ONE story a day you see). 3 Journos tracking the industry wanted to know ‘what impact will the inflow of US $ 10 billion have on the […]

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Well choose what B stands for! Afterall it is a point of view is it not? Let us look at some recent news items / events: – Greece default is more or less certain. So Greece will be forced to go out of the Euro, and Germany will go because it wants to go. This […]

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The CII summit on the mutual fund industry was a welcome relief to the Mutual fund industry which was anyway in the shambles. Actually when you are on the ground it is perhaps difficult to kick you also – sharanagadhi has its advantages! The current SEBI chief has asked the mutual fund industry to come […]

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