This year the xbrl return filing is likely to be extended to a bigger range of companies…Not sure whether and if it will happen, but that is what one hears. Last year was the first year of xbrl filing and year ending March 2012 will be the second year. Tagging of the 3 financial documents […]

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I normally do only subject matter training. This is capital markets, financial planning, etc. etc. However some of this spills into a sales / attitude training too. In the sense that people ask me ‘If the client says….what should I say?’…I realise that selling life insurance or mutual funds is a really taxing and difficult […]

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The life insurance industry is in bad shape. Their past sins of over charging the customer are visiting them, and real hard. The Irda made some changes, the Income tax made some changes, they themselves made some mistakes, the customer unfortunately woke up, ….so in fine the industry is in trouble. So here is a […]

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Doing an article for the New year is easy. Just go to the article you did in the previous year…and change the year. However is a good list of resolutions that you can make – it is really useful if you made it already, just reiterate it, and follow it! So here it goes 1. […]

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Yesterday I ran the Standard Chartered Marathon. Maybe I used the wrong verb – I walked much more than I ran. However, there were some lessons. I had done the marathon in 155 minutes in the previous year (year 2008) and set myself a target of 145 minutes for this year’s marathon. However my sincierity […]

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