Regulators pretend all is well, in response to the most glaring violations we report
Sucheta Dalal
A few weeks ago, the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) decided to break its established practice of responding to the media only through its communications department and sent us an aggressive letter defending the actions it has taken to help investors of portfolio management schemes (PMS). The letter and our response have been published on our website. But it is the first time in nearly six years that SEBI has chosen to respond to an issue, that too in writing. Readers of Moneylife know that we have been fighting a two-year battle to force transparent disclosure of PMS performance. We filed an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, won an appeal to the central information commissioner and only then was the regulator forced to publish performance data of these schemes for high net-worth individuals. SEBI’s letter makes no mention of it, or of our pending appeal to put out more comprehensive information. However, it establishes that the regulator does read what Moneylife has been writing, fortnight after fortnight.
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