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. […]
On Monday 2nd July there will be a meeting at the North Block, Finance Ministry 10 Ceos of Asset Management Companies, their club Amfi’s top brass, Sebi chief, will meet the powers that be in the finance ministry to decide whether the INVESTOR should pay fees to the Independent Financial Advisor (a.k.a BANKS). Funnily the […]
Honest to God, this conversation is not an exaggeration. Please read it, and tell me how useful this advise was: Anchor: Sir, when buying insurance should you buy insurance or an investment too. Expert: Well you should look at all the features. Normally people buy life insurance to get the 80C benefit. Which means in […]
Too much is made out of entry load, exit load, ulip, cost of fund management etc. Most of the loss (leakage) in personal finance can be attributed to the inefficiency of execution. Even good advice is lost to poor execution! Let me enumerate (Ripley’s should not use it in their Believe it or Not, please) […]
Taking off from the earlier post..I am not sure whether the interest rates have peaked. One look at the dynamic and income opportunity funds also proves what I say. Fund managers are also divided on whether interest rates have peaked. Frankly I do not care I do not have too much of a debt portfolio. […]
Was talking to a cousin of mine about his investing. He said he had some ‘mutual fund investments’. When I saw it – it was appalling. He is very close but was not too forthcoming about why he had chosen such an array of funds. However he earns very well and spends almost nothing (comparatively) […]
Manish of Jagoinvestor in a conversation with Puneet one of this readers: Manish: As I told, our intention is to earn money from google ads. That is how the concept of jagoinvestor came. Yes I do make money from ads , but jagoinvestor never took shape that way , ad money is a by product of […]