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The government of India has announced an increase in the tax collection at source (TCS) rates for forex outward remittances made by resident individuals under the Liberalised Remittance...
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Sucheta Dalal
29 September 2023
In August 2022, the Supreme Court (SC) first issued notices on a public interest litigation (PIL) that noted senior counsel Prashant Bhushan had helped me file on the need for a centralised database to pay back unclaimed funds lying dormant in pools with various financial regulators and government agencies (Read:

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Abhay Datar
14 April 2023
Recently, Thane additional district consumer disputes redressal commission held that banks can recover the dues from a credit card customer from the customer’s fixed deposit (FD) held by the bank. The district commission dismissed the plea by the card-holder after the bank contested that –...
MAS Team
18 February 2021
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are a new asset class in the Indian financial market that offers exposure to income-generating commercial real estate. Essentially, REITs give the chance to own a pie of a commercial real estate and enjoy its rents and capital appreciation, similar to buying a rental......
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MAS Team
04 January 2023
Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd has launched the 2023 non-convertible debenture (NCD) calendar with a public issue of Rs400 crore. The company regularly issues debt securities; its current outstanding debt securities as liabilities are over Rs15,500 crore (as on March 2022).   As many as 10 series of......
MAS Team
03 September 2021
Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India), the asset manager for Mirae Asset Mutual Fund, has launched a new international equity exchange traded fund (ETF).    The Mirae Asset S&P 500 Top 50 ETF is a passive index ETF that will track the S&P 500 Top 50 total returns index (TRI). Being an......

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MAS Team
30 September 2023
The sectors which gained the most during the week were Tech Services (+9%), Contract Manufacturing (+6%) and Telecom Equipment (+5%). The biggest losers were Paints (-5%), Office Equipment...
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In order to offer you choices, insurers create complex products, making it tough for you to compare them and choose. Policies are different from each other in terms of exclusions, conditions and fine print. If you slip on even one of the vital conditions, your claim may be rejected or cut down. Get answers to these 6 questions.

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Changes in Our Business Model
 
 
25th Sept 2020
 
Greetings from Moneylife Advisory Services
 
Between financial years 2019-21, SEBI has come up with extensive changes to investor advisor regulations. On Sep 23, 2020, SEBI had issued new additional guidelines. This comes just two months after extensive changes announced in July 2020. Earlier, in December 2019 there was an ad hoc circular
 
As a result of these changes, IAs, cannot accept fees through credit cards, will have to sign a 26-clause investor agreement, have to maintain physical record written & signed by client, telephone recording, emails, SMS messages and any other legally verifiable record for five years. IAs were already asked to record the suitability and rationale for every piece of advice given, sign them and store them for five years.
 
While these extensive and frequent changes, designed to strengthen the conduct of IAs are well-meaning, these have sharply increased compliance efforts and cost. We, being online advisors, find many of changes harder to implement, compared to advisors working in the physical space. We will have to have an army of advisors, administrative and tech staff to be compliant. If we do this, we will have to divert money to these areas and the cost of our service will double. We want to remain the least-cost service in the market to benefit more and more people. In the circumstances, we are forced to change our business model from “advisory” to “research”. This will mean the following:
 
What remains the same:
  • Recommendations on insurance, investment and Lion stocks, will continue as a part of the MAS premium subscription. Our strength has always been research and this will remain available to you through our recommendations.
  • The magazine and all textual content will remain as part of the service
  • We will have to suspend the restructuring tool.
 
What changes:
  • The interactions in Ask / Handholding will offer investment advice but not specific to your situation. It will offer information on investment products and also clarify your doubts about various financial products. It will be a forum for information, not for advice. This will be implemented with immediate effect and our guidelines in Ask, reflect this now.
 
Over the next few weeks our site and our communication to you will reflect these and other additional changes.
 
We feel this will not affect you much in terms of what really matters in investing: knowing what to buy and when to buy. This is our edge and it will still be available to you.
 
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