The life insurance industry is in bad shape. Their past sins of over charging the customer are visiting them, and real hard. The Irda made some changes, the Income tax made some changes, they themselves made some mistakes, the customer unfortunately woke up, ….so in fine the industry is in trouble. So here is a […]
Not sure how many of you have read ‘Straight and Crooked Thinking’ – it is a book about writing and speaking in a complicated / simple way. Now let us look at the mutual fund industry: Facts: Entry loads have been abolished. There have been a lot of redemptions in the equity schemes. There has […]
When you went to redeem your units did you get a feeling that they were trying to stall your redemption? 3 mails which I had received made me sit up and think. Is there a pattern, I am not sure. However even when i have attempted redemption I have got the following reactions: – You […]
One question on the top of everybody’s mind is of course “When will the markets recover?”. That is not just a difficult question to answer, but at best is a wild guess. However, the fun of prediction is to occasionally get it right! The market is a cruel barometer of corporate performance. In the preceding […]