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...

FPOs are a low-risk, low-to-modest reward option and, therefore, better than IPOs for certain kinds of investors

I am sure a lot of us are confused about what a ‘follow-on public offering’ (FPO) is. That we all know about initial public offering (IPO) is
clearly reflected in the number of applications that flood an IPO. In an IPO, the discovery of the market price of a stock takes place...

Several large equity issues are going to hit the market. If you wish to subscribe but have limited means, is a there a way out? There is

The floodgates of mega equity issues are opening. The retail investor is often in a dilemma about which one to choose and how much money to keep for each. Here are the kinds of issues they would face: 

• The mandatory grading applies only to issues...