This post was triggered by Deepak Shenoy’s article about the regulator… I was a little amused that the cases mentioned even got ‘caught’ . First things first. What is a soft dollar commission or should i say soft rupee commission… I will have to go a little into technical details, so please bear with me. […]
“Mutual funds are no longer profitable”; “It is not worth being in the life insurance business” – you have heard this and variants of this from the ad driven media, right? Well the truth is not very close to this. Let us take the case of Hdfc Mutual fund. Given the huge AUM already under […]
From times immemorial banking has been a fantastic business. Ask the Marwaris and the Chettiars. It is a simple business too. Borrow money at 3%p.a. lend it at 6%p.a. and keep the 3% margins. If I am not wrong it used to be called the 3-6-3 rule of banking. This rule said borrow at 3%, […]
Can airlines really be profitable if ALL THE AIRLINES: – BUY aircrafts from the same manufacturers – Land at the same airports (and pay the same charges) – Use the same airport infra – recruit from the same pool – have a union that will decide the salaries and the bonus – fly the same […]
A few years ago there was a run on a bank…surely nobody wants me to name the bank, correct? Well I will not. RBI went out of its way to rescue it. When I was talking to somebody in the management of that bank, he said ‘It is actually RBI’s problem’ – we have no […]
In most companies the people at the HO hate the guys who go out and sell. Make no mistake most companies hate the sales guys – employees, agents – are just nomenclatures. By any name they are hated. The company – I mean the ‘HO’ people LOVE the cheques they bring, but hate the sales […]
It is lonely at the top…but surely Hdfc will not mind it. Hdfc Mutual fund became the biggest mutual fund and toppled Reliance to reach that position. Hdfc in most businesses is like the proverbial tortoise…Slow and steady, plod, plod….but once you reach there stick to that position! So Congrats Milind Barve and team for […]