There are somethings which I have not been able to understand, will somebody explain please? if 70% of the shares of Hdfc bank and Icici bank are held by FIIs, how are they Indian banks? if 100% retail is allowed to sell mutual funds and life insurance, why not tomatoes and jewellery? if a public […]
NPS (New Pension Scheme) was bad – I have rubbished it enough, but as if all that was not enough, the Parlimentarians have tried to make it worse. Why should a fund management company have only 26% FDI beats me. Stumped is the word. In the 1990s we allowed 100% FDI in Mutual funds, […]
Not sure why..but too many kids who meet me (their parents ask them to talk to me, gutsy parents!) tell me ‘I do not want to do CA, sir’. The reasons are: – it is too tough, and the pass percentage is low – compulsory articles for 3 years is too taxing – attending college, […]
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 […]
Continuing the state of the Life insurance Industry… One very important part of this industry are the agents. Now the agents are of 3 types a. National Level Distributors (non banks), b. National Level Distributors (banks) and c. Individuals (largely local level). The N L D as they are called seem to be making money, […]
Funnily I do not get paid for the best investment advice that I have ever given! Let me enumerate some of the client questions which have been addressed in the negative. For a few of my clients the best investments are those that they did not make – but they do not know the value […]
about 10 days back did a program on Utvi on behavioural finance…here is the transcript. http://www.utvi.com/personalfinance/financial-investment-india/15714/investing-sans-emotion.html# – is where the original is, for the others, here it is being reproduced! Investing sans emotion UTVi News Desk Published on Dec 18, 2008 MUMBAI: Leaving emotions out of your financial decisions is tough. After all, it’s about […]