Sunday 21 October 2012

[www.keralites.net] AIR INDIA, INDIGO, SPICE JET വിമാന ബഹിഷ്കരണത്തില്‍ പങ്കാളിയാവുക.....

 


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നവംബര്‍ 1 മുതല്‍ 30 വരെയുള്ള AIR INDIA, INDIGO, SPICE JET വിമാന ബഹിഷ്കരണത്തില്‍ പങ്കാളിയാവുക.....

പ്രവാസി മലയാളികളെ കൊള്ളയടിക്കുകയും തീവ്രവാദികളാക്കുകയും കള്ളകേസില്‍ പെടുത്തുകയും ചെയ്യുന്ന എയര്‍ ഇന്ത്യക്കെതിരെ പ്രതിഷേധിക്കുന്നതിന്റെ ഭാഗമായി നവംബര്‍ 1 മുതല്‍ 30 വരെ എയര്‍ ഇന്ത്യ വിമാന യാത്ര ബഹിഷ്ക്കരിക്കുന്നതോടോപ്പം തന്നെ ഇന്ത്യയില്‍ നിന്നുള്ള INDIGO, SPICE JET വിമാനങ്ങളെയും ബഹിഷ്ക്കരിക്കുക.

പകരം ഇത്തിഹാദ്, എമിറേറ്റ്‌സ്‌, എയര്‍ അറേബ്യ, ഖത്തര്‍ എയര്‍വേയ്സ്‌,തുടങ്ങിയ ഗല്ഫ് എയര്‍ലൈനുകള്‍ മാത്രം ഇക്കാലയളവില്‍ ഉപയോഗിക്കുക.

മലയാളികളോട് കളിച്ചാല്‍ അവരുടെ നെഞ്ചത്ത് കയറി കളിയ്ക്കാന്‍ മലയാളിക്ക്‌ അറിയാം എന്ന് കാണിച്ചു കൊടുക്കണം. ഒരു മാസത്തെ ഈ ഷോക്ക്‌ ട്രീറ്റ്മെന്റ് കൊണ്ട് ഇവര്‍ ശരിയാകുന്നില്ലെങ്കില്‍ നമുക്ക് അപ്പോള്‍ ബാക്കി നോക്കാം.

കക്ഷി രാഷ്ട്രീയ, ജാതി മത ഭേദമെന്യേ ചീപ്പ് ഈഗോകള്‍ വച്ചു പുലര്‍ത്താതെ ഒറ്റക്കെട്ടായി ഈ പരിപാടി വിജയിപ്പിക്കുക.

സേവ് മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാര്‍ എന്ന ക്യാമ്പയിന്‍ നടത്തിയത്‌ പോലെ വരുന്ന പത്ത് ദിവസങ്ങളില്‍ ബഹിഷ്ക്കരണ ക്യാമ്പയിന്‍ നടത്തുക. അതിന്റെ ഭാഗമായി ഫേസ്ബുക്ക് കവര്‍ പേജു ബഹിഷ്ക്കരണ ആഹ്വാനമുള്ള പോസ്റ്ററുകള്‍ കൊണ്ട് നിറയട്ടെ. ഒരു മാസം നമ്മള്‍ ഇവര്‍ക്ക് ഒരു ഷോക്ക്‌ ട്രീറ്റ്മെന്റ് കൊടുക്കുന്നു.

AIR INDIA, INDIGO, SPICE JET എന്നീ വിമാനങ്ങള്‍ ഒരു മാസത്തേക്ക്‌ ബഹിഷ്ക്കരിക്കുക....

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[www.keralites.net] Relationship manager or salesman?

 

Within hours of receiving Rs 1 lakh in his bank account, Murtaza Nulwalla received a call from his bank relationship manager (RM) proposing that he use the money to buy an annuity plan. The RM sounded convincing enough; and, Nulwalla agreed.
But, he realised his mistake soon enough when someone pointed out that he had already been paying Rs 75,000 for three child plans. When he sent an email to get his purchase cancelled, the RM first called back to convince him not to do so. Then, he issued a veiled threat that Nulwalla would lose his first premium. The email, however, came to Nulwalla's rescue as the bank cancelled the purchase on the basis of his complaint. However, not all are as lucky as him. Bank accountholders regularly get calls from RMs, who promise to give the best investment plan, the best home loan, the best credit, and so on. Many end up buying these products, some of which are irrelevant and may even be harmful for their finances.
BE WARY IF YOUR RELATIONSHIP MANAGER :
  • Is vague about the terms and conditions of products
  • Dangles the 'limited period' offer
  • Does not provide information about investments that haven't been made through him
  • Avoids your calls during bad times 
  • Does not give satisfactory responses about your investments
  • Tells you to just sign application forms and promises to take care of your KYC requirements
WHAT YOU MUST DO:
  • Don't give in to sales pitch, emotional blackmail
  • Thoroughly examine sales and conditions before signing any document
  • Maintain proof of all documents, emails and other communication. In case, you need to lodge a complaint
  • Don't sign blank documents or application forms for investing in an instrument
Bank RMs sell a range of products of their insurance and brokerage arms – such as investment-cum-insurance plans and demat accounts. Sometimes, they even convince you to dabble in the futures and options segment or buy exotic products that may be a mix of commodities, futures and options, forex trade, equities, and so on.
All of these are done under the pretext of giving your returns a fillip, offering you post-retirement security, and protecting your children's future.
The fact, however, is different. Selling these products earns RMs high commissions. If their salary package is, say, about Rs 6-7 lakh, the target for 'income achievement' is around Rs 80-90 lakh — about 12 times the salary. An RM has to generate that much income, or at least 75 per cent of it, to earn his incentive. It is possible for an RM to earn Rs 3 lakh every quarter if he meets all his targets.
If you were to lose money or were unable to bear the cost of an insurance product, it would be your responsibility. "Though people come to me to file such cases of mis-selling, it's not always possible for want of evidence," explains consumer activist Jehangir Gai.
Business Standard sent emails to a number of private and foreign banks, but none responded.
However, many bank executives agreed off the record that banks' high concentration on fee income leads RMs to sweet-talk their clients into investments that might not be in the best of their interest.
Stock market and mutual fund investors and buyers of insurance products are more or less aware of the commission earned by their brokers, distributors or agents. But, there is little clarity on the commission RMs earn.
A senior official with a private sector bank says, "in case a customer opens a demat account or buys a mutual fund scheme or an insurance product through an RM, the fee is paid from the commission that would have otherwise been paid to a distributor or an agent. So, it is not a case of overcharging the customer. It could even be cheaper, because the banker is an employee and not an independent distributor or agent."
Another problem: When a customer is approached by a mutual fund distributor or an insurance agent, he assumes there is a certain domain expertise. But, that may be just an eyewash, as one person can't possibly have domain expertise of all kinds of products. This shows if you ask tough questions.
Recently, an RM tried to sell a short-term debt product with tax benefits to a financial planner. The planner argued that unless it was a five-year fixed deposit (FD), there would be no tax benefits. The RM, then, admitted it was a life insurance product and the premium would be invested in fixed income products.
"But see, you will get tax benefits, good returns from debt instruments and would be able to exit after a few years. Since the stock market is bad, this could be a good product," said the RM, conveniently forgetting to mention that unless one kept paying the premiums for at least seven to eight years, there was little chance of getting reasonable returns from an insurance product. No wonder, the financial planner hung up, disgusted.
The more complicated part is the redressal mechanism. A bank is regulated by the Reserve Bank of India, but its insurance arm is under the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority and the brokerage arm under the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
Under these circumstances, you may have been sweet-talked into buying an insurance product by a bank employee, but the redressal may often lie with some other regulator.
The good thing Nulwalla did was sending the email immediately. Also, his old RM rejoined and helped him reverse the payments. What had spoilt the possible deal in this case was Nulwalla's realisation that he had been approached the same day Rs 1 lakh was deposited into his bank account. He has decided to close his account with the bank.
In ideal circumstances, the role of an RM is to provide a customer with a single-point contact for all his banking needs. But, with RMs under pressure to meet sales targets, the line between the customer's 'need' and their own 'target' gets blurred.
Many a time, the problem lies with customers as well. "Customers should also be aware of the extent of risk they can take and returns they want to earn before blaming their RM for miss-selling," says Gaurav Mashruwala, a financial planner. If you tell your RM you can invest money for 10 years, the RM may suggest investing in equities. However, after three years, if you find that your investments are not doing well because the equity markets are falling, it is not the RM's fault," he adds.
Confessions of a relationship manager
I started as a relationship manager seven years back. During our training, we were told our performance would be gauged by the number of products we were able to sell. Our incentives would also depend on that.
The easiest product to sell was insurance. Often, customers did not take the trouble of going through the product documents in detail. This was, in fact, good for us. Sure, we were told that mis-selling could land us in trouble. But, as senior colleagues pointed out, by the time a customer would realise a policy was not the best for him, it would be too late for him to back out.
So, I was selling insurance policies from day one, even as I cleared the Irda certification exams only two years later. During this period, one of my senior colleagues, who had been certified, would sign as the agent on the form, as I was not qualified to do so. Thankfully, none of the clients I sold policies to noticed this.
Once or twice, I have even put the initials of my clients on forms, if those were missing at some places. They wouldn't know about it because they just signed the application form and left the rest to me. As I look back, I realise, doing such things, if discovered, could have cost me my job.
Besides insurance policies, I also sold different kinds of credit cards to the same customers. I had this group of 10 customers, all of whom were high networth individuals. The concept of discount worked wonderfully. So, the same customer took one card for discounts on airlines, another for discounts on spas and the third for discounts on hotel bookings. I also sold add-on cards for family members.
Not many of them used these cards, since they already had other credit cards, but they bore the annual fee. It didn't matter much to me, as my incentive was based on the number of cards I sold.
Today, it is tougher to push insurance products, as insurance companies directly call customers to check if they know about the product, premium and so on. Credit cards are also not being sold as recklessly as earlier due to the rising cases of defaults. But, as long as banks continue to push RMs to sell products, there will always be some instances of mis-selling
Source : Business Standard

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[www.keralites.net] If you judge a fish...

 
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[www.keralites.net] Simplicity..

 


Peace is simplicity. Simplicity is beauty. 
Choose a day as your day of simplicity. 
Speak little, and listen with attention. 

Do something incognito and nice for a person you are close to. 
Eat simple and natural food. 

Create time periods for not doing anything - just walk, 
look around, live the moment. 

Have your mind open to a more profound and silent sensitivity. 
Appreciate each scene and each person as they are. 

In the evening, write down your discoveries.
Observe the state of your mind.

 

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