Regulators have a terrific ability to speak the language of the most dominant player. Have you observed that? When Hdfc Standard Life Insurance came out with ‘riders’ – fairly obviously some riders were priced more than the death main clause (will not go into the reasons here). This meant you could take a ‘Term life […]
I do not know whether this is being cynical or this is how life is supposed to be. In the year 2000 when I started doing training as a full time profession, mutual funds were the first port of call. This was not by design but in 2001 the AMFI exam was introduced (it was […]
With the zero load in mutual funds it is perhaps not too wrong to expect that many fund advisors will get out of this business. I am not sure whether this is a correct assumptions but it is a logical one. Will it really happen? Let us see. There will be many people in the […]
For readers of my blog this is not a new news. I have not been a fan of any businessman who is more into ‘market capitalisation management‘ rather than business management. When the Reliance Power IPO came at Rs. 450 I did not apply though of course there are many people who applied. I wrote […]
One hears that there are upwards of 3 million IFAs selling some financial product or the other. My take on this is – not more than 10,000 are in it by choice. Most of them would happily take up a job in the financial services sector. Some of them will not get a job because […]
There are many problems facing the mutual fund industry…in an interview with Dhirendra Kumar of Valueresearchonline.com Mr. Sinor of Amfi says “the biggest problem facing the mutual fund industry is the mis-selling by the distributor”. This is a little amusing. The insurance regulator and Sebi regularly make noises about mis-selling, however Amfi and the Life […]
I met somebody a few days back and he asked me the following questions: Why do you write a blog? What is the goal? What is India’s biggest financial planning issue? What are you doing to help the spread of financial literacy? I liked the questions, but he must have felt that my answers were […]