Navigating Basis Risk: Beyond Perfect Hedges in Indian Debt Markets

A regular HNI client who typically invests in high-yield debt mutual funds recently approached me, concerned about the duration risk in their portfolio. They noticed rising interest rates and asked if we could hedge...

Navigating Basis Risk: The Challenge of Correlated Assets in Hedging

Consider a high-net-worth client who approaches you with a substantial portfolio of corporate bonds, worried that an uptick in policy rates will depress their current holdings. To protect the portfolio, you might...

Navigating Benchmark Changes: Managing Client Expectations and Compliance

Consider a situation where your client, a long-term HNI investor, notices a sharp deviation in the performance reporting of their mid-cap fund. Upon reviewing the latest Scheme Information Document, you realize the AMC...

Navigating Benchmarks for Thematic and Sectoral Mutual Fund Schemes

A client walks into your office in Pune, excited about the performance of a digital technology fund. They notice it has outperformed the Nifty 50 significantly over the past year and assume the fund manager is a genius....

Navigating Capital Gains: Beyond the STT Deduction

Consider a client who walks into your office in Ahmedabad, clutching a quarterly account statement and pointing at a redemption figure that feels lower than expected. While you might have already clarified that the...

Navigating Capital Gains: Tax Differences for Resident and Non-Resident Investors

A regular client walks into your office in Bangalore, concerned that their recent redemption from an equity-oriented mutual fund resulted in a different net cash flow than they anticipated. They have recently changed...

Navigating Compliance: The Regulatory Reality of Mutual Fund Advertising

Picture a scenario where a client approaches you with a printed brochure for an equity mutual fund that claims a 40% absolute return over the last six months, highlighting this figure in bold, oversized font. As a...

Navigating Conflicts of Interest in Mutual Fund Distribution

Picture a scenario where a large AMC offers an additional incentive or a sponsored trip to a star-performing distributor, provided they prioritize a specific new fund offer (NFO) over others this quarter. As a...

Navigating Corporate Actions: Managing Investor Expectations on NAV Adjustments

A long-term investor in your client base calls in a state of confusion after checking their portfolio, claiming their investment value has mysteriously dropped despite the mutual fund declaring a bonus issue. As a...

Navigating Counterparty Risk in Over-the-Counter Financial Derivatives

Consider a HNI client who approaches you, seeking to hedge their large equity exposure through a private, bespoke forward contract arranged by a boutique financial firm. While the contract offers a tailored hedge that...