In the 1990s big corporates would borrow money from banks and lend it to smaller corporates. All of them played this game – Bajaj Auto, Tube Investments, Parle, Ranbaxy, etc. as lenders and smaller companies like Shaan Interwell, Indiana dairy, Sun Ceramics,….as borrowers. However the overall return that the lenders got could not have exceeded […]

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I have written a lot of obituaries for the Indian mutual fund industry….let us see what an American Investor pays for investing in a mutual fund. Most American investors go through a Broker-Dealer or a financial planner who acts as a B-D. Forget the myth of a fee-based financial planner – he is as difficult […]

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