There are many people who prefer buying mutual funds, medical and life insurance and many financial products through an agent. Normal reasons why people use an agent are as follows: He helps with filling up the form He knows what is happening in the industry and will be able to give some useful advice He [...]
I have always held the view that you should have your own medical and life insurance – do not trust your company to cover you sensibly. Most general insurance (medical) decisions in corporate India is a finance and HR decisions. Rarely, if at all are they equipped to handle this decision. Let me give you [...]
Believe me, buying a financial product is as traumatic as sitting with a doctor and discussing a report saying you have some killing illness. I am connected to many CXOs in the financial services industry and there is perhaps not one brokerage firm that has not offered its services to me. Among other accounts I [...]
A finance ministry official says “If foreigners are allowed to invest directly in India, volatility will go down in Indian markets”. I am completely unable to understand this. Like I cannot understand what is wrong with Intra day or Intra month volatility! Markets have always been volatile – the question is how volatile that [...]
“Subra, I met this Financial Planner and he has offered to do my financial planning for a fee of Rs. 24,000 – I can afford it, is it worth it?” was a call that I handled this week. I said: Gee, frankly I do not know. It takes a great mind to say “I will [...]
I met a well to do Financial Advisor, or rather should I say almost Ex-Financial advisor. He is in the business of mutual fund distribution, given up life insurance and general insurance distribution, does not entertain clients any more for direct equity, and does financial hand-holding for SMEs. He tried his hand at fee based [...]