So today the market went up by 400 points – many financial services companies went up by a huge number. Hdfc which was Rs. 3000 pre-split opened at Rs. 610…now it is at Rs. 655. So as is wont….you ask…and they say ‘The financial services industry is booming’. If you have been in the industry […]
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 articles on my blog there is malice towards all – if an investor is getting poor returns there is blame to be spread all around. Obviously there is conflict of interest, sales pressures, excessive loads, high fees, charges not being transparent, etc. However one thing the media surely does not want […]
I wish I had joined the mafia – at least everybody would KNOW that I am a bad man! A friend of mine in a high position in a big finance company told me this yesterday! The following are a mix of my views and partly his lament! Having seen Investment banking (I think a […]
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 […]
Over the past few years that the mutual fund industry has existed it has not grown as much as people would like you to believe it has. There are about 800 schemes – equity / predominantly equity schemes. If you sort the folios PANCARD wise, I do not think there are more than 100,000 reasonably […]
So as expected the ULIP bill is passed. I am not sure about my numbers but if the mf sales: ulip sales is 1:300, to even think the MF industry will be called for a meeting sounds funny. The mutual fund industry in India is going through a real hard grind – some partly its […]