In a kind of surrender to the mutual fund industry SEBI has asked amfi to reconsider becoming a SRO for the mutual fund industry. This is a fantastic joke because it is like asking the Life Council to be a SRO for the life insurance industry. Amfi is NOT A mutual fund voice or body. […]
It is funny that to be in any business you need to have some qualification. Let us take the mutual fund business for example. To be the Asset management company – you need to have 5 years of track record of some financial business. You need to have a networth of Rs. 10 crores (to […]
If you have been in the equity markets for 30 years you have some advantages. First you have seen many players come and go. You keep wondering how many are genuine, how many are fake. Over this period you classify people into platinum, gold, silver, …and of course mud. Fund managers also come in various […]
Just finished what could have been India’s first (or one of the earlier) training sessions for the NISM exams. Was there conducting the first sessions of the Amfi training in 2002 – took the exam in April…and started doing the training in the month of May. Do not see much difference in the syllabus – […]
One thing the unit linked plan vs. mutual fund (I have no clue why there should be such a debate – owners, executives, salesmen, clients – I find are fungible between the 2 businesses!!) argument has done is created a consensus: “Fee based advisory is the cure for all evil”. This brings us to the […]
English is a very beautiful language. And unlike excel allows you to be as unprecise as you wish. Imagine running an advertisement driven business. You need everybody to advertise. So if you choose one scheme – you are antagonising 54 other schemes in that category. SO if you are serious, you should not run a […]
Many of our regulators – IRDA, TRAI and now SEBI may all be having good intentions, but the way it is being expressed is rather amusing. Now SEBI is saying that an Asset Management Company should have a net-worth of Rs. 50 crores. This means pushing the small funds out of the market. One has […]