Surely you must have seen advertisements saying only 1141 tigers are left in the world…well that was in 2009: Only 7 telephone companies left Only 44 asset management companies left Only 19 life insurance companies left Only 44 good/ decent fund managers left Only 68,000 amfi exam passed advisers left Only 300,00,000 life insurance agents […]

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This is second in the series of what is an Idr..let us see who are the participants: Main Players: Issuer Company, Overseas Custodian, the domestic depository, and the Registrar and Transfer Agent Issuer company: Foreign Listed Company – i do not know whether there is any quality criteria. The investor gets an exposure to the […]

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A few days ago I had done a small note on Ayn Rand. She was a Economic Philosophy writer who found that US A had too much governmental interference. If you are a student of Economics you understand the word ‘rent’ in the correct sense. Rent seekers are those people who have been able to […]

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It is that time of the year when everybody is buying gold. Or at least the guys who are selling gold think customers should be buying gold. If you are in a Hindu country – not by constitution but by sheer numbers – you will be pushed into thinking everybody is buying gold. My wife […]

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What is an IDR? IDR is Indian Depository Receipts issued by a domestic depository in India and denominated in Rupees. It represents an ownership interest in a fixed number of underlying equity shares of the Issuing company. These shares are called Deposited Shares. Why should a company issue an IDR? A foreign company which cannot […]

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One of the ways of getting financial information – and information about financial products could be the blog. Blogs are thought to be unbiased, but given the force of PR agencies and SEOs influencing blogs and the way people search…blogs may not be such a great souce. Competence among blogs is another major issue. The […]

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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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