mutual evaluation, financial action, FATF, abuse of financial system, money laundering, terrorist financing, politically exposed persons.
The FATF approach of mutual evaluation is largely based on the legislative measures initiated by...
Vivek Sharma    
real estate, money laundering, Canadian model, developer, broker, property, FINTRAC, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, client information records, suspicious transaction report records, fiduciary duties.
Real estate business attracts lots of unaccounted money, which may also be laundered money. If...
Vivek Sharma    
turnover reporting, NSE, National Stock Exchange, futures and options, F & O segment, stock market, notional contract, premium, transactions.
Isn’t it time to report options turnover based on the premium and not on the notional...
Vivek Sharma    
politically exposed, RBI, Reserve Bank of India, Financial Action Task Force, due diligence, banks, financial institutions, money laundering,
It is quite common for politically exposed persons to camouflage their financial interests using...
Vivek Sharma    
NCFM, online renting, certificates, certification, corruption, NSE, capital markets, stock exchange.
There is a need to check this spreading menace of renting of NCFM certificates. The most...
Vivek Sharma    
Inflation Index Bond, IIB, investment, yield, retail investors, auction, dated government securities, inflation,
Inflation indexed bond is not a plain vanilla financial instrument. The real working of these...
Vivek Sharma    
inflation, WPI, wholesale price index, CPI, consumer price index, core inflation, producer price index, RBI, Reserve Bank of India.
It is not possible to capture inflation details with one set of numbers, howsoever wide it may...
Vivek Sharma    
interest rate, yield, financial illiteracy, business journalists, business writers, Corporate FDs, investors, bond market, coupon, bank fixed deposits
Writers and business journalists are using yield as rate of interest for simple products like...
Vivek Sharma    
money laundering, Cobrapost, HSBC, black money, hawala transactions, Financial Action Task Force, politically exposed persons, Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002.
India is a heaven for black money and hawala transactions. However, we cannot afford to relax on...
Vivek Sharma    
investment, mutual fund, MF, equity, stock, stock market, share market, property, loan, loans, mutual funds, stocks, investments,
An expert opinion or textbook answers may not be the best possible solution for dilemmas like...
Vivek Sharma    
mis-selling, financial services industry, banks, financial products, legislation, agent, market risk
Mis-selling is rampant in the financial services industry. While legislation may act as a shield...
Vivek Sharma    
mutual funds, mis-selling, free look-up period, lock-in, variable return, high fee paid products, AMFI
While it does not make much sense to have a free look-up period for products such as NSC, PPF...
Vivek Sharma    
diversification, portfolio, stock, stock market, risk
Diversification is just a means to create a portfolio which is expected to provide good returns...
Vivek Sharma    
retail participation, equity market, wealth creation, Sensex, Nifty, stocks AMFI
There is no denying the fact investments in equity is a must for wealth creation but if the...
Vivek Sharma    
Association of Mutual Funds of India, AMFI, inflation, retail investors, mutual funds,  investments,
Investors cannot start with an assumption that every mutual fund scheme that they intend to...
Vivek Sharma    
inflation, interest rate, interest rates, RBI, new normal inflation
How will the economy respond when the RBI when reduces rates further in the coming months? If...
Vivek Sharma    
Economic survey, bihar human development, economic growth,
It is evident that the otherwise fast growing state of Bihar lags far behind in many of the...
Vivek Sharma    
beta, equity, capital market theory, market theory, equity pricing, stock market,
ITC, which is a low beta stock that has given a return higher than the Sensex over a period of...
Vivek Sharma    
Inflation bonds, Inflation index bonds, bond, bonds, index bonds, inflation bond, inflation index bond, RBI, RBI India, consumer Price Index
For small investors, Inflation index bonds can be beneficial. Though the real return from these...
Vivek Sharma    
As an investor all of us need to be rational in our approach towards investment. The most...
Vivek Sharma    
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