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Zee Promoter Company Borrows 2,200 Cr. , Has No Cash Flows, Negative Net Worth, Rated A+ on Shares Pledged and Franklin Templeton MF owns 800 cr. of That Debt

Why are we so trusting of rating agencies? The recent drama with Amtek Auto and the restriction on redemptions to 1% by JP Morgan AMC on two of its funds is a ...
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IMPS Volumes Go Up 5x In A Year, We Think This Will Be Huge

We’ve written about IMPS – India’s Instant Payment Service – in the past. In 2011, I made an “instant” payment to my friend ...

Equity Mutual Funds Outperform Nifty; AUM Increases Over 60% In 15 Months

Following up on our earlier posts on Mutual Funds (Read “Why AMFI Should Not Ban Upfront Commissions” and “Mutual Funds Hike Exit Loads, Hoping This Time ...

Why AMFI Should Not Ban Upfront Commissions

I am all for regulation. As in, I do not think a world without regulation, in the financial space, is worthwhile. But not all regulation is good, and the ...

Mutual Funds Hike Exit Loads, Hoping This Time Investors Will Stay

In a strange move, Mutual Funds are increasing exit load time frames. This is usually a desperate situation by MFs to retain investors, or they are just using ...

Even at All-Time High, The Nifty Must Double From Here to Adjust for Inflation

As the Nifty hits a new high, it’s useful to see Nifty adjusted for inflation – that is, despite the fact that the Nifty has hit the highest ever ...

How Much Are You Paying Mutual Funds in Commissions?

A question on Ask Capital Mind goes like this: Is there any link from which I can get to know the Trailing commission which the AMC pays to the distributor? ...

Mutual Funds that Owned Shares of Financial Technologies

Mutual funds owning FT stock are largely from the Reliance and Birla stable, it seems. Going purely from the shareholding on Jun 30 (the last we have) the ...

Revisiting the “Promoter Put” in Mutual Funds: Dheeraj Singh

This is a guest post by Dheeraj Singh. Dheeraj was a fund manager for many years specializing in fixed income. He used to head fixed income at IL&FS Mutual ...

The FII is Dead. Long Live the FPI.

In what seems to be a love-hate relationship with Three Letter Acronyms (TLAs), SEBI has rejigged the concept of foreign investors in the securities markets. ...