The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 07, 2005

Mutual funds hope to bag larger share of tax-saving pie
WILL the mutual fund industry manage to capture a larger share of the tax-saving pie, once the Budget proposals take effect? The industry is optimistic that it will. Last year, tax-saving funds (also known as equity-linked savings schemes or ... More

MF industry expects Budget to boost its asset base
THE BUDGET over, it's time to take a hard look at your portfolio, examine the feasibility of re-balancing it with a view to factor in emerging market trends and new life goals that may have become significant in recent times. For investors in ... More

STOCK MARKETS

No speed-breakers on Dalal Street
The market, which for long was used to betting on the price-earning multiples averaging between five and ten, is now ready to value a stock 20 times or more the earning per share. More

Is there anything to spoil the bull party?
Jogin was trying to understand Bihar politics using a chessboard, and Khan was calling his travel agent to cancel his Goa trip, even as Sridevi was using a ladder to plot the Sensex on her wall. It needed Dakshinamoorthy to call the weekly ... More

Premium takes a dip
BOTH the US and Indian bourses moved in similar direction, though the latter showed much vigour. The US Labour Department reports that about 2.62 lakh employments were added in February (the highest since October last), seemed to have lifted the ... More

INTERVIEW

`Going by our P/Es, there is scope for further improvement'
MR PRASHANT JAIN, CIO of HDFC Mutual Fund, does not come across as a fund manager in a hurry. But behind that imperturbable stance is a heart that bleeds for equities. More readily now, with stocks responding so well to increasing corporate ... More

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