Internationally as well as Nationally it is now well known that meditation is playing an important role in fund management. Either it is a confirmatory bias – I know more people in the BFSI space so more stories are reaching me, or that meditation itself is getting very popular. Whatever it is, meditation seems to […]

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So at last I am entering the business of Fund Management…… and here is my New Product launch: It is a 4% Guaranteed Equity Bond – and will be launched on 1st April 2014. Fund Managers: H S Mehta and K M Parekh Disclaimer: any resemblance to anybody from the past market scams is purely […]

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Too many people in the media are obsessed about fund management costs. This is not a bad thing – after all this is the ONLY thing to which we retail investors have access, right. Fund managers on the other hand (ok the 3-4 fund managers who I have spoken with and who have over the […]

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I presume all of you have heard of Motleyfool.com – an internationally renowned website. I have some association with them…so to that extent i could be biased, but yes, it is a great site. Here is a mail I received from their Mutual fund division..and I do not think I will ever receive from an […]

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If you see the fund performance in India, most, if not all fund managers have schemes which beat the the sensex or the nifty. Have you wondered why it is easy to beat the indices in India but fund managers in the US find it very difficult to do so? There are just too many […]

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Three questions, same answer! 1. Subra I have been paying an annual premium of Rs. 10,000 for the past 7 years, but the amount accumulated in my ULIP policy is only Rs. 59,000. What should I do with the policy now? My agent tells me the upfront charges which were high have already been paid […]

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  Not long ago I used to appear on TV at regular intervals. The channels that I used to appear regularly are ET TV, Bloomberg Utvi, and much less frequently on Cnbc and Cnbc Awaaz. So obviously PR agencies had seen me – and two of them approached me. One of them said ‘look at […]

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