The savings bank account is a place where most of us leave a lot of balance. This is more by habit and inaction rather than any design. Traditionally all banks paid interest on the MINIMUM balance – by some stupid definition – of balance between 10th and 30th. It was difficult to calculate the correct […]
Not sure how many of you read about the prosecution of HSBC in UK… Whenever I speak to big branded banks they tell me how – – they have a fantastic risk profiling process – due diligence done on all products, issuers, exchanges….blah, blah, blah – how the client has to sign off on all […]
The world knows that the most profitable business in the world (since Shylock’s times!). Banks have seriously huge margins – just see them borrowing at the bottom from absolutely lazy guys like me (SB a/c 4%) and lend it to absolutely lazy guys who do not even know how to borrow by lending at 25% […]
Most stories going around in the world are only about dishonest, misselling, cheating agents..do any of you have any idea about a few honest agents? The agency business is funny. Managers get people who are reasonably good in sales, but not too knowledgeable about the product, and make them agents.. here is a story: “I […]
I am sure you are all dying to hear what is this word…..well the word is NO. Nahi chahiye. Nyet. Nein. Vendam. Nako. Nathi Jothu. Do not want….. the single word is NO. When I was reading an article recently I saw an article with similar headlines…it was an article in Newsweek and it said […]
Either the financial services industry is full of people who announce business plans for time pass or I have brilliant 20/20 vision. When Big Bazaar group entered the financial services business, there was a chuckle. However they hired a top notch very (and frightfully) expensive executive….rumored to be paid a few million dollars (US!) then […]
The mutual fund industry is cribbing about there being no investments. Of course there are no investments. The industry has spent all its time pampering, requesting, cajoling the distributor. They have no direct communication with the investor. Do the fund houses need the distributor? Yes. What a tight situation, is it not? Has any fund […]