The most important thing about a regulator is he speaks in the language of the MOST powerful player. Period. So if it is RBI he will speak in the same tone as State Bank of India. If it is Insurance, it will sound like LIC and in case of mutual funds it used to be [...]
Sebi has come out with a circular to say what is mis selling and making misselling a fraud. As usual somebody in the ivory tower looking at the battle field with telescope of good intentions. To me it looks like the Centre’s law against child marriage – the act is old, and the activity is [...]
Happened to watch Star Vijay Tv at about 6am today. One ad was for real estate – and one of the ‘idiots’ of 3 idiots was selling real estate. Did not pay much attention, but thought to myself ‘why the …..should these guys sell products that they do not understand’. Then i reconciled myself saying [...]
The role of a regulator is more like a traffic policeman rather than like an investigative policeman. The traffic police makes rules: – only persons above 18 should drive – a 2 wheeler rider and his pillion should wear a helmet – signals mean……. – license application, format, test, etc. We have had a regulator [...]
In a country where English is spoken only by the elite, SEBI has done another very unnecessary thing. However, I am not criticising the regulator, just stating the facts. SEBI in its wisdom decided that all mutual fund accounts in which there has been no activity for the past 6 months will be called [...]
Today’s Economic Times carries an article about SEBI wanting to create a committee to view/ review the qualifications by the auditor. Sounds good? Let us see what a sister organization MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) is doing. They get the significant Indian companies to file their Annual Returns in XBRL format. In the XBRL [...]