Sometime over the course of financial year 2025-26, the unthinkable will happen. The assets under management (AUM) in the Indian mutual fund industry will overtake those in the life insurance industry and end the current financial year just below the ₹80 lakh crore mark. Not just in terms of size, but also in terms of reach:...
Stock markets go up and down. Investors who enjoyed the 20% plus a year returns for four years ending September 2024 are seeing red in their one-year returns on the Sensex but returns of two years are still in the 10% plus range. Held for five years, the returns are an impressive 16% average annual....
The recent Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) warning of a potential bubble in several small-cap stocks had taken some gains off a market that the regulator believed was getting overheated. Retail investors who had looked at the substantial returns in some small-cap funds and stocks over the past year and had rushed in...
How would you react if your bank kept half your money when you withdrew a fixed deposit before the maturity date? There would be huge depositor angst and the regulator, the Reserve Bank of India, would step in to stop this money gouging. However, in another part of the financial sector, the insurance regulator has...
Mis-selling of policies through banking channels is resorted to more by private sector insurers. Both RBI and IRDAI must step up to protect investors A December 12, 2023, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) draft has caused a 3-6 per cent fall in the stock prices of major listed life insurance firms in...
Halan’s writing throughout the book is erudite yet engaging, and she peppers her prose with pithy insights and witty observations Indian stock markets are touching new highs at the time of writing this article. From a family gathering to a hangout with friends, markets have, again, become the talk of the town. Friends have...
The Indian stock market rose 16% between March 24 and July 17, powered by a clutch of reforms, and fuelled by retail and foreign institutional investor money Stock markets make headlines when they either throw a tantrum and crash dramatically or reach lifetime highs. Gaining a breathless 16% from March 24 to July 17,...
This is a Q and A on the book Let’s Talk Mutual Funds Read here
Regulators across the world are worried about it, especially because of the way the crypto episode played out where famous people, actors, influencers, used millions of their followers to push certain coins, certain exchanges which just went out of business,” says Monika Halan, Author, Let’s Talk Money & Analyst. Read more
There are no easy steps in regulating the space. It will need to be a mix of regulatory outreach to regulated entities and investors going beyond fear and greed When finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman took note of finfluencers in India, saying that many of them are misleading people, the issue festering under the...