Saturday, November 8, 2014

Investment Advisory

Konark's preferred client engagement is financial plan creation and annual plan review to keep focus on goal achievement. However few clients due to some reason may not wish to subscribe to annual financial plan review after plan creation. We will continue to give investment advisory to such clients till they have some investments purchased through Konark.

In standalone investment advisory we assume that plan is progressing as expected. There is no change to goals, inflation, expected investment returns, expected savings and other parameters. We caution that these are unrealistic assumptions. But unless client agrees for plan review we have no way to know what has not progressed as planned.

In this process Konark will :
1.       Advise if any investment needs to be changed due to poor performance assuming asset distribution is correct. We will not charge any advisory fee for change of existing investments.
          This is restricted to investments purchased through us. It is expected that client approach their distributor/advisor for other investments.

2.       Advise clients for new mutual fund investments when requested. Our advisory fee will be 0.6% of investment amount. i.e. Rs. 600 per Rs. 1 lakh investment.

Clients have no obligation to purchase investment through Konark. However following benefits will accrue to clients who purchase investments through us:
1.        We will monitor the investments periodically and advise for change, when necessary.
2.        We will provide redemption and account change services at no additional charge.
3.        Client can use our discount feature to reduce financial plan review fees. For more details read              Financial Planning Fees.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Financial Planning Fees

First time Plan:
Konark offers two service plans for basic financial planning covering investment and life insurance advisory:

1.     Economy Plan                                               Rs.   5,700
2.     Optimum Plan                                               Rs. 12,600

Add on services can be availed for medical insurance, tax advisory and other areas.

Annual Review Discounts:
          Annual review of plans is offered at discount as follows to first year planning:
1.     Review initiated before end of 13th month from start of  1st year planning       15%
2.     Review initiated before end of 25th month from start of  1st year planning       10%
3.     Review initiated before end of 37th month from start of  1st year planning         5%

Additional Discounts:
In addition planning review fees discounts is available for clients who have invested in mutual funds through Konark. Discount will be 0.1% of invested amount.  Investment amount is calculated as follows:

Market Value of Investment one year prior
Add        Investments at cost during the year
Less       Disinvestments during the year
    
Example:
Market Value of Investments one year prior        Rs.  10,00,000
Add   Investments at cost during the year            Rs.     3,00,000
Less   Disinvestment during the year                  -Rs.    1,00,000
                   Total                                                       Rs.   12,00,000    

     Fee Discount available 0.1%                                 Rs.          1,200