Distributors and financial planners encourage you to buy NFOs. Their advice is against your interest. Here is why

The year 2007 has been a quiet one in terms of new fund offers (NFOs). The previous year saw a record number of NFOs hitting the deck. If we look back, it is obvious that there is a correlation between the state of the markets and the number of NFOs getting launched. The moot...

Real-estate stocks will occupy a larger share of the market-cap. How do you pick such stocks? Here are three factors to bear in mind.

Real estate has been a much-debated topic during the past couple of years; more so, because it has been making its presence felt in the capital markets. The successful new issue of DLF, coming as it did after much controversy, has been a watershed. It has...

Does the fund industry consider investors’ interest?

The mutual fund industry has conveniently ignored the investor. Most of the policies framed have been designed either to protect the Asset Management Company (AMC) or the distributor. I want to highlight two issues that have been raised by some of our readers. First, the vexed issue of the PAN card as a compulsory requirement for investing...