If this really happens smoothly….! XBRL is the new way of presenting data – substantially accounting data, though of course it can be non accounting data also! In the US xbrl data has a common nomenclature for xbrl…now the government of India is planning to do the same thing… http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Centre-to-set-up-common-database-for-all-regulators/708894/

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When you grow up in Ghatkopar and live there for 3/4ths of your life, most friends tend to be Jains. So over the past 10 days a lot of them called me to say ‘Michhami Dukkadam’. And as is wont, I repeated it. Little did I realize that I am communicating far, far more on […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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http://www.subramoney.com/finance-for-non-finance-people-workshop/ Since the name of the game is transparency …all websites should be made to disclose how the costs add up. For example on mutual fund, banking and life insurance sites there should be a ‘disclosure’ of salaries. I should know that the MD got a salary of Rs. 2 crores + esop +….This will […]

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The year 2007 was perhaps the last year of the madness cycle – with Ninja and all kinds of excesses. However the market corrected in 2008 and recovered very fast in 2009. The sad part is that the persons responsible in Eurpoe and in USA were not even brought to book – the Banking Regulators. […]

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Many of our regulators – IRDA, TRAI and now SEBI may all be having good intentions, but the way it is being expressed is rather amusing. Now SEBI is saying that an Asset Management Company should have a net-worth of Rs. 50 crores. This means pushing the small funds out of the market. One has […]

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