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Month: June 2010

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ULIP Exits And The Sunk Cost Fallacy

A column I’d missed out last year on ULIP Exits and the Sunk Cost Fallacy: My last column, ‘The ULIP War’, has yielded a number of responses ...

Holiday Break

I’m taking a week off in the mountains and with flaky internet access, won’t be able to post much. Markets seem to be getting slowly interesting, ...

US Mortgage Rates Sink to Lowest on Record

It seems mortgage rates in the US have fallen to the lowest on record, at 4.69 percent: Mortgage company Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate for ...

On Yahoo: The ULIP War

My latest at Yahoo!: The ULIP war on the topic of the week, ULIPs. The turf war between the Insurance Regulator (IRDA) and the Securities Regulator (SEBI) is ...

IRDA Wakes Up, ULIP Changes in Store

Says Mint: Two Irda officials told Mint on Monday the regulator will soon declare stringent norms on front-loading of commissions, surrender charges, risk ...

Insurer Misselling, 30’s feeling, shady MF deals, Yuan unpegged

MoneyLife: Insurer admits mis-selling (Birla Sun Life) After Tara Foods, Fatpipe Networks withdraws its IPO. Krugman: That 30’s feeling. Focus on jobs, not ...

IRDA wins the battle to regulate ULIPs

It’s final. The government has decided that the ULIP turf war will be decided in favour of IRDA. The government has brought down curtains on the two-month ...

SEBI bans HDFC MF AVP Nilesh Kapadia for Front-Running

In a detailed investigation, SEBI found Nilesh Kapadia, AVP-Equities at HDFC Mutual Fund guilty of front-running trades that the fund was going to take: The ...

TTK Prestige: Pure Speculation?

A couple of readers warned me that all was not well in the rise of TTK Prestige I had earlier mentioned. Look at the deliverable quantity, they said. And here ...

Links: Satyajit Das, Dilbert Investing, Asian Bubbles

Satyajit Das: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide, at Naked Capitalism. The Global Crisis is about to get worse. Das is a great read. Scott Adams, “Betting on ...