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EPFO: Rs 21 crore fraud at Mumbai’s Kandivali office sparks scrutiny

MAS Team 20 August 2021
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Following a Rs 21-crore EPFO fraud, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has decided to scrutinize all transactions - especially recent...

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EPFO sees a dip in net subscribers in May

MAS Team 23 July 2021
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EPFO saw a marginal dip in net new enrolments at 9.20 lakh subscribers in the month of May from 12.76 lakh in April this year.

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Pension Slips May Now Be Sent via Whatsapp Also, says Centre

MAS Team 16 July 2021
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The Centre has told banks they can use social media apps such as WhatsApp alongside SMS and email to send pension slips to pensioners after their...

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EPFO likely to deploy part of its corpus in InvITs

MAS Team 16 July 2021
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Retirement body Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is likely to start investing a part of its corpus in infrastructure investment trusts...

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Pension Fund Regulator Allows Upto Rs5 Lakh Withdrawal of NPS Corpus Without Buying Annuity

MAS Team 19 June 2021
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Pension fund regulator PFRDA (Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority) has now permitted its subscribers to withdraw the entire accumulated...

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More than 35 million PF subscribers withdrew Rs 1.25 lakh crore since outbreak of pandemic

MAS Team 22 May 2021
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Reflecting the hardships faced by salaried people since the outbreak of the pandemic, more than 35 million formal sector workers, over half of all...

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PFRDA plans to relax mandatory annuity rule under NPS, offer more annuity choices

MAS Team 24 April 2021
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Pension fund regulator PFRDA is mulling giving subscribers an option of parking 40% of the corpus that is mandatory to purchase an annuity at the...

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NRIs can use direct remittance facility of NPS, get same day NAV

MAS Team 05 February 2021
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PFRDA has now decided to extend the option of contribution into NPS (National Pension System) through D-Remit to NRI-NPS subscribers,

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PFRDA gets nod for e-KYC for National Pension System and APY

MAS Team 05 February 2021
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Now you can digitally subscribe to the National Pension System by giving e-KYC.

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Pensioner’s Life certificate submission date extended till 28 February 2021

MAS Team 23 December 2020
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In a major relief to central government pensioners amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the date for submission of life certificate has been extended up to...

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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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