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 […]
1. Why do mutual fund distributors pay Rs.2500 to Amfi for a period of 3 years? What does Amfi do for them? Is it not a body representing the big mutual funds? Assuming that there are 100,000 active distributors (conservative because this includes bank employees too) we are talking of an amount of 2500 * […]
Many (most) people think that IFA as a community look at the commission and then decide where the funds of a client have to be invested. Not wrong most of us would think this is fair – after all it is in ‘his or her’ self interest that they should act. However many smart agents […]
Well depends on whom you listen to! There are many options about how to invest in a mutual fund. Let us see some of the broad options: 1. Online or 2. Offline The options in offline are – a) You go to a mutual fund house branch, fill the form and rest assured that things […]
There are some loose cannon balls out there at the regulators place who are hell bent on letting blood flow… The mutual fund industry in India was anyway a top 8 cities, institutional phenomena. However the retail portion was serviced by a huge army of advisers and employees of AMCs. You should meet the Indian […]
If you read the mails that IFA associations get from their members – IFA galaxy’s Alagappan, or other independent financial advisors – it is quite disturbing. Just today itself there are complaints against 2 reputed fund houses – DSP and Hdfc for errors (and he goes on to say that it takes a long time […]
For a new person is it worth being an IFA? – Independent Financial Advisor for those who do not know what is an IFA. My take is if you are professionally qualified and can get a decent job in the outside world, it is not worth being an Ifa. We recruit Chartered Accountants at Rs. […]