The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, October 02, 2005

Value stocks outperform funds
It is possible, using a formula-based approach, to identify a portfolio of ten or so stocks that could be winners. But, as such approaches sometimes tend to miss out on certain other factors that determine stock prices, it is good to watch out for sp ecific market trends as well. More

SIMPLE ECONOMICS

Disclosure
CONSIDER this. You hire a professional money manager, who asks you to buy ITC. She also tells you that she personally holds some shares in the company. There is a conflict of interest. What if she is trying to create more demand for the stock? ... More

TAX TALK

Father owns house, son chips in to repay loan
I AM staying with my parents. My father owns the house in which I stay. He has taken a housing loan for acquiring this house and my wife and myself are co-applicants to this loan. My father has since retired and he is not filing any income-tax ... More

Real owner benefits
I HAVE booked a 1,200 sq.ft flat in Mumbai. It has a living room, a kitchen and three bedrooms with attached toilets. There is only one entrance to the flat. Two agreements have been entered into with the builder, one for the living room and one ... More

FUND WATCH

Changes in redemption payment

Unitholders of Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund will now receive redemption proceeds of equity, balanced, tax-saving and index funds three days from the date of receipt of the application for redemption, as against the current practice of one ... More

AUTO FOCUS

Corolla jazzes up to stay on top
STAYING on top is far more difficult than getting there. This holds true in the dynamic and highly competitive world of automobiles too. Car manufacturers have to be constantly in touch with their customers and the ... More

BOOK VALUE

A coach you can bet on!
ZEE has suddenly fallen in love with football. Does that mean we can take investment lessons from a football coach like Joe Moglia, who wrote `The Key to Winning Football: The Perimeter Attack Offense'? If you're sneering, let me add that Joe is ... More

LAW LANE

A moped that got mowed down
OF ALL the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come, says Caesar to Calpurnia in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. ... More

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