Sometimes you get rich by not getting ESOPs! If the private life insurance companies did not give you ESOP, rejoice. It must be really difficult if you have such a tough competitor like LIC! Look at what all they do: 1. They give in writing to corporates – we will give you 9.35% p.a. return […]
One young couple came to me recently wanting to do some ‘financial planning’. Their idea of ‘fp’ was they could give some haphazard information (either for want of data at their end or not wanting to share the data, LOL). They were not too keen to fill up a word document, an excel sheet, collate […]
Am doing this posting because a few journalists wanted me to talk about the Union Budget and the NPS. What a joke! There was NOTHING in the budget for the NPS at all. One cosmetic change is ‘on share purchases the NPS does not have to pay service tax’ – the impact at best can […]
Shariah Investments in my portfolio, no thanks! Benchmark Mutual fund announced a Shariah compliant fund recently. Of course many mutual funds (Reliance, UTI, to name 2) are all in the process of launching and managing a Shariah compliant fund. What is a Shariah compliant fund? And what does it do? Shariah, the religious law of […]
PHASE I – 1964 – 87 Mutual Fund Industry started in India in 1963 with the formation of UTI Launch of First Scheme – US 64 – it was a very popular scheme, largely perceived as a debt fund with assured returns. However, it never had to declare its NAV and ran into problems in […]
Mutual fund regulatory environment REGULATORS IN INDIA · SEBI – The capital markets regulators also regulates the mutual funds in India. SEBI requires all mutual funds to be registered with them. SEBI issues guidelines for all mutual funds operations – investment, accounts, expenses etc. · RBI as supervisor of banks owned mutual funds – As […]
PHASE I – 1964 – 87 Mutual Fund Industry started in India in 1963 with the formation of UTI Launch of First Scheme – US 64 – it was a very popular scheme, largely perceived as a debt fund with assured returns. However, it never had to declare its NAV and ran into problems in […]