This is a story that I have heard…and from very authentic sources, so I believe it is true. There was one Mr. S who had inherited about 2000 acres of land in a village in Tamil Nadu. Typically, he was a rich man and also added some more land to it and was very prosperous….When […]
Most Hindu kings – or the Kings of Indian origin – acted as a trustee when they managed the kingdom’s money. Even though they were the owners, and theoretically they could do whatever they wanted to do with the money, they managed as though they were to be there permanently. This is easy to believe […]
I do not know whether this is being cynical or this is how life is supposed to be. In the year 2000 when I started doing training as a full time profession, mutual funds were the first port of call. This was not by design but in 2001 the AMFI exam was introduced (it was […]
This is second in the series of what is an Idr..let us see who are the participants: Main Players: Issuer Company, Overseas Custodian, the domestic depository, and the Registrar and Transfer Agent Issuer company: Foreign Listed Company – i do not know whether there is any quality criteria. The investor gets an exposure to the […]
A bureaucrat or a minister is respected by the size of the fiefdom he runs. So obviously when the corpus in ULIPs has got far higher than the full mutual fund industry….SEBI saw some ground slipping. If SEBI was so clear, it should have woken up long ago. Why was it sleeping. Also ULIP is […]
If you have wondered what are soft commissions here is the answer. There are some legitimate expenses and some not so legitimate expenses. Soft commissions are what sales people call ‘entitlements’. It could be in the form of a contest – the top 100 winners go on an all paid trip to South Africa, Goa, […]