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Single Window Portal To Be Set Up For Pensioners, Superannuated Elder Citizens

MAS Team 16 April 2022
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Union Minister Jitendra Singh has announced the establishment of a Single Window Portal for the benefit of pensioners and superannuated seniors.

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These NPS Investors Can Exit From Scheme After 5 Years Lock-In Period Only

MAS Team 17 March 2022
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The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has reduced the lock-in period for NPS investments from 10 years to 5 years for...

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EPFO Interest Rate For 2021-22 Slashed From 8.5% To 8.1%, Lowest In Over 4 Decades

MAS Team 12 March 2022
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In a major hit to the earnings of over sixty million subscribers of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), the central board of trustees...

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Employer obligated to pay damages for delay in payment of EPF contribution: SC

MAS Team 26 February 2022
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An employer is under an obligation to pay the damages for delay in payment of the contribution of Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) of an employee, the...

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PFRDA Hikes Charges for NPS Services

MAS Team 04 February 2022
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The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has increased the charges of NPS-related services offered at point of presence (POP)...

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NPS to allow 4 changes per fiscal in investment pattern

MAS Team 01 January 2022
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Pension fund regulator PFRDA will soon allow subscribers of the National Pension System (NPS) scheme to change investment pattern as many as four...

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You can file EPF e-nomination after 31st December too

MAS Team 01 January 2022
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The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has said that members can e-file nomination for their EPF accounts beyond 31 December 2021....

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How to Use Face Recognition Technology to Submit Annual Life Certificate or Jeevan Pramaan Patra?

MAS Team 07 December 2021
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Last week the minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh launched a

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Government Launches 'Unique' Face Recognition Technology For Pensioners

MAS Team 03 December 2021
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On Monday, the minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh launched a

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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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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
  • 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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