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Obtain learners license, renew driving license and more online by getting Aadhar authentication

MAS Team 11 February 2021
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Driving license holders and vehicle owners can now avail 16 types of online and contactless services and avoid the hassles of visiting offices of...

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Government may extend deadline for FASTag use for toll payment on National Highways

MAS Team 02 January 2021
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The government is set to extend the deadline for 100% collection of toll charges on the National Highway (NH) network through FASTag, reports The...

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More than 50% of Indians recharge their phones online

MAS Team 02 January 2021
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The share of digital mobile phone recharges in India crossed 50% for the first time in 2020 as the pandemic led people to minimise stepping out to...

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Flying out of IGI Airport in Delhi to be a bit costlier from February

MAS Team 02 January 2021
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The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) has allowed Delhi International Airport Ltd to levy Rs 65.98 plus taxes per departing passenger...

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Central Railway finds fake ticket travelers, misuse of senior citizen quote on trains

MAS Team 27 November 2020
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The Central Railway has recorded 428 cases of fake tickets, including 102 for AC class, since June, writes The Mumbai Mirror.

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NPCI to roll out Real-time dispute resolution system for UPI

MAS Team 16 October 2020
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The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is conducting closed-door pilots with top banks and payment companies to roll out a real-time...

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Supreme Court orders airlines to refund bookings during coronavirus lockdown

MAS Team 02 October 2020
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India's top court ordered airlines to refund passengers who were forced to cancel tickets booked during a two-month, nationwide lockdown to stop the...

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No need to carry hard copies of driving license, other documents if you have MParivahan app

MAS Team 02 October 2020
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You will no longer need to carry the physical copy of your driving license, registration certificate, permits, PUC and insurance documents of your...

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SC asks Centre to clarify if refund will be given for tickets booked for air travel during lockdown

MAS Team 11 September 2020
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The Supreme Court asked the Centre to clarify whether it is willing to give complete refund of air tickets booked for travel during the COVID-19...

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Civil Aviation Ministry to charge passengers higher aviation security fee

MAS Team 21 August 2020
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The Civil Aviation Ministry has decided to increase the charge on aviation security fee (ASF) for domestic as well as international air travel from...

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Changes in Our Business Model
 
 
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
  • The investools will have to be reworked and will offer model portfolios. 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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