After the fate of IFRS in India, people are wondering will XBRL stay? Or will somebody push it to 2015 and beyond? The answer is really difficult. Let us look at what is happening to XBRL worldwide. The US’s SEC started it slowly – for the top companies – but has now mandated it. BSE […]
For somebody who has spent a long time watching the mutual fund industry I am not sure whether it is going to be a case of “I knew this will happen” or even worse ‘I told you so’…. How does a fund scheme get launched – rather why? Simply because the sales force has never […]
For all those people who love eating out, and eating proceesed foods, there is a website to visit! Funny how we think of healthy living – and believe doctors (and the process food industry) who tell us that wheat bread, wheat pasta, …are all good for us. Why they even tell us that coconut oil […]
I am sure all of you remember the very old story of a farmer who had a hen that laid golden eggs. For those of you who do not remember it…There was a farmer who had a hen that laid golden eggs. He used to be very happy to get a golden egg everyday – […]
If you have wondered what are soft commissions here is the answer. There are some legitimate expenses and some not so legitimate expenses. Soft commissions are what sales people call ‘entitlements’. It could be in the form of a contest – the top 100 winners go on an all paid trip to South Africa, Goa, […]
Today we will se how the other (vociferous!) distributors will react: These are the smaller distributors who were getting 2% (atleast) to about 4% as marketing fee. However this money was coming from the client – and many clients did not know about it. However many distributors were giving all their ‘income’ back to the […]
Economist is too respected a magazine to ignore. It also takes a balanced view of things. Many times they are right, sometimes of course, they could be wrong. Here I am reproducing a part of an article where they have spoken about India. Here, the quote starts, the highlighting is mine. “This year foreign capital […]