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SEBI Makes Mutual Funds Show Risk in Colours

SEBI has gone from seeing things in black-and-white to now, colour-coded mutual funds. It has, in a circular, asked all mutual funds to colour code their funds ...

Cyprus Deposits Have To Pay Bailout Tax; It Is India’s 7th Largest FDI Source

Cyprus is now in the news, as it gets bailed out by the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission. Unfortunately, as a condition for the bailout, all bank ...

ECommerce, SIP Investing, and Entry Loads…

Nikhil Pahwa rants about the ecommerce business in India. In a short summary His interaction shows that ecommerce businesses are laying off or are running at ...

Keyman Insurance Loophole Plugged: All Proceeds Will Be Taxed, No Exemption

Budget 2013 has plugged a loophole in the tax system. Consider a small company that wanted to pay its management a bonus based on a large profit it had ...

India Has Highest P/E Among BRIC + Links

India seems to be the most expensive BRIC country in terms of P/E, going by FT: (HT @deepakmohoni)   This is of course much to do with how the the index ...

9 Point Financial Plan, Indian Edition and Comic Strips

Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, has a 9 point financial plan for you: Do these steps in the order shown… 1. Make a will 2. Pay off your credit cards 3. Get ...

#Linkfest: Direct Plans Win, Be-Sahara, ESOP Disclosures …

Links for today: Direct plans garner 56% of new inflows in Jan, says ET. Out of 60,000 cr., of fresh investments, nearly 33,000 cr. has come into direct plans. ...
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Indiabulls Employee Welfare Trust Dumps All Its Shares. Should SEBI Probe Further?

The Employee Welfare Trust (EWT) of IndiaBulls Financial Services dumped 2.4 crore (24 million) shares of the company in the market, at a price of around Rs. ...

Insurance Profits from Surrenders, But Not *That* Much

LiveMint has an article by Monika Halan and Deepthi Bhaskaran talking about how investors lost Rs. 1.5 trillion (150,000 crore) rupees due to mis-selling. ...

Raising Gold Duty Will Only Increase Gold Demand

The government has raised the Gold import duty to 6% from 4%, and pleads with people to please "moderate" their purchases of gold. This is a ...