I will also do a story saying that the IFA is doomed…and have done one already. However when I say IFA is king I mean there is a huge market of IFAs to whom you can sell. Obviously like all customers the I F A too will buy based on Greed and Fear. The Greed […]
The blurring lines between what is media and who is selling a product is really painful for the end user. Let us say I was running a website (and my income came from the number of people coming to my site, a.k.a. advertising) I have to say certain things.Imagine a website which says nasty things […]
Two interesting conversations with two different Independent Financial Advisors was very interesting. It is worth mentioning here! Normally the word cheated or cheating is assumed to be associated with the client being cheated, but in these cases it was the adviser who was cheated. When I started my articles for doing my Chartered Accountancy in […]
What will the IFA (Independent Financial Adviser) do now that the entry load has been abolished? They will sell life insurance till 2011. Once that also becomes fee based he will not know what to do. Correct? Well yes and no. IFAs are perhaps the most agile persons in the whole chain of getting the […]
I do a lot of training for IFAs – here are somethings that they wish they could tell their clients: – If you can find all the answers on the net, please ask that website to get you a printout of your portfolio when you want, why should I call the fund house? – It […]
this article appeared in Moneycontrol some time back, but (not surprisingly) not too many people appreciated it. Frankly this is one of the best lessons Independent Financial Advisors can teach their investors. THERE are some word pairs that go hand in hand. When you say one you cant help but think of the other – […]
Along with a software company (www.myirisplus.com) I did financial planning workshops in various parts of the country. Delhi, Kolkatta, Indore, Hyderabad, Bengaluru (Bangalore), Pune, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Andheri, Churchgate, Chennai, Cochin, Trivandrum, Coimbatore, Ahmedabad, ….To be honest the response from the ‘IFA’ – the person who sells life insurance and mutual funds to you was […]