Tagged: PMS

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Portfolio Management Services – understanding it better

At a time when Mutual Funds are seeing withdrawals, assets for Portfolio Management Service (PMS henceforth) are blooming. This even though Mutual Funds are better off when it comes to how one gets taxed as well as the fees. Mutual funds, even the active funds charge these days much lower than what the investor ends up paying at most portfolio...

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Paying Advisor to Buy Blue Chip Shares

Twitter is a place where you meet Strangers. Some become friends for life, some acquaintances but most just some one whose tweet you once read and either agreed or disagreed. While Twitter is known for its Trolls and abusive behaviors thanks to the cover of Anonymity, there are people who are kind beyond what you feel you yourself deserve. For...

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Should you invest in PMS Schemes

One of the great surprises of the 2008 financial crisis was that investing in Hedge Funds did not really hedge you when markets turned down. You lost as much if not more of what a simple Index fund investor would have.  While India has had a few Hedge Funds, one strong growth area has been Mutual Funds and Portfolio Management...

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SEBI sounds the death knell for boutique PMS. 

In India, you can manage other people’s money in three ways – Mutual Funds, Alternative Investment Funds and Portfolio Management Service. While much of the world has only two options, Mutual Fund and Hedge Fund, PMS in India was a hybrid way for small fund managers to provide a way to manage the funds of each client in accordance with...

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Being Different Isn’t A Bad Thing

In the world of me too’s, the only way to stand out is to be different and it’s no different in the world of investment management where your only standing is why you are different from others and hence are attractive as a place to park your capital. Motilal Oswal whose motto is, Buy Right – Sit Tight for example...

Investing in Markets – Ways and Means 0

Investing in Markets – Ways and Means

We have hundreds if not more number of studies that has shown that over the long term, the best growth is delivered only by equities. While in India, Real Estate has also proven to be a bonafide wealth generator, I strongly believe that growth over the next decade or two will more likely come in Equity with Real Estate more...