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INVESTMENT WORLD
INSIGHT:
Healthy scorecard after early hiccups
Equity fund performance in 2009. If all's well that end's well, then mutual fund investors may have little to complain about this year. Though the year 2009 started on a bleak note, the ending seems to be happy one. One in every four equity ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook: Bears gain the upper hand
Santa Claus failed to make an appearance last week but investors were kept greatly entertained by the game of one-upmanship played by the premier stock exchanges of our country and as a section of the broking fraternity started ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Reliance Pharma Fund: Invest
STOCKS:
Eveready Industries: Buy
Investors with a medium-to-long time investment horizon can consider buying the stock of Eveready Industries. With power-hungry rural regions and a rising number of battery-powered gadgets, Eveready Industries, which holds a 51 per cent share ...
STOCKS:
Anant Raj Industries: Buy
Realty player Anant Raj Industries could be a prime beneficiary of the recovery in the real-estate market in the National Capital Region, including Delhi. This is especially so in view of the Common Wealth Games 2010 to be held there ...
STOCKS:
Alok Industries: Buy
Investors with a long-term perspective and a high-risk appetite can buy the stock of textile player Alok Industries. At Rs 21, the stock is at 6.1 times its trailing 12-month per share earnings. Investors should limit portfolio exposure to ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
UTI-Mahila Unit Scheme: Invest
Women investors looking at debt-oriented funds that yield returns superior to traditional debt options can consider investing in UTI Mahila Unit Scheme, a balanced fund that seeks to hold a 70:30 ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Tata Opportunities: Hold
Investors with high risk tolerance can consider holding their units in Tata Opportunities Fund based on its performance over a five-year period. The fund has not sufficiently compensated investors for the risk assumed. ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Stock Strategy: Polaris at a crucial support; Essar Oil stuck in a range
Polaris Software (175): After touching its recent high at Rs 192, the stock weakened a bit. It is currently placed at a critical stage. A drop below 175 in the cash segment on a closing day basis ensures that the stock has entered a ...
INTERVIEW:
‘Upside in large-cap stocks is limited from here on'
What did the top performing equity fund for the year, Principal Emerging Bluechip Fund, do to manage its stunning 156 per cent return over the past year? Well, it got off the starting block when pessimism was at its extreme, bought the ...
INSIGHT:
What's your style?
Actor A, a promising newcomer, with a couple of recent big hits and the current toast of tinsel town or Actor B, an accomplished actor, having a bad run at the box office, but whose chances of bouncing back ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Deciding between SIPs and value averaging
Do you wish to build an equity portfolio in a mutual fund? If so, you can now choose between lump investments and the popular systematic investment ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 1,010.4)
Reliance Industries dragged rest of the market down last week with the decline of Rs 58. This was in line with our expectation of a fall to Rs 1,008. Strong close below the 50-day moving average at Rs 1,050 is a cause for worry. But the stock ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Low-rise staging a comeback
It's no surprise that a chronic shortage of space in a city that's growing at a blistering pace is spearheading the high-rise culture. Pune will soon sport 100-m tall residential and ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
HUDCO lowers interest rates
The Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd has cut its lending rates on floating rate loans by 50 basis points for its lending portfolios of housing and urban infrastructure development, according to a ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query Corner: Aban Offshore in a short-term downtrend
I have purchased shares of IVR Prime Urban Developers for Rs 440. What is the near-term technical trend for this stock? Can I hold it until it reaches my cost price? ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Building fiscal gains — with sand
Mining rivers or de-silting dams to part-bridge the fiscal gaps in State ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Keep an eye on sharp market movements
I am 38 years old. I have the following funds in my portfolio: DBS Chola Opportunities, DSP BR T.I.G.E.R, Fidelity International Opportunities, HDFC Infrastructure, HDFC Prudence, Mirae Asset India Opportunities, Reliance Diversified ...
INCOME TAX:
Treating deduction on housing loan interest
I bought a property in a gated community through two agreements – for purchase of land and for construction of a villa with the promoters of the property. The land was registered in my name in ...
BOOKS:
Managing political risk in unfamiliar markets
Globalisation, economic integration, trade and capital mobility, and the free exchange of ideas across borders have not rendered politics obsolete, say Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat in The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for ...
ESOPS:
Should you invest in your employer?
Stock options are a popular form of incentive-based executive compensation among large companies. The process involves allotting options to employees which entitles them to buy shares at a certain price after a certain period. After ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
The roadblocks to ‘housing for all'
The Confederation of Indian Industry (Southern Region) has urged the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) and the local bodies to fine tune the Chennai Master Plan, and simplify the development control rules and approval ...
IPOS:
Subscribe for a public offer via ASBA
Have there been times when you wanted to subscribe for an Initial Public Offer (IPO) but hesitated because you couldn't afford to lock-in so much money for extended period? Apart from your money being frozen, you are seldom assured of ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Banking Funds — Lagging behind
While banking stocks had a good rally over the last year, banking funds were not able to match this performance, going by the returns they generated. Of the seven funds focussed on this theme, the only prominent one to better the BSE Bankex ...
HUMAN RESOURCES:
Are you being promoted?
It is really difficult being a HR manager or a supervisor in charge of a team. You may carefully promote people who have performed well in their current roles only to see their efficiency slump after the promotion. Why do people perform ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
E-mail your response before Tuesday to ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday to: ...
EVENTS:
Biz Quiz
#2. Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, who was attending COP15 - UN Climate Change Conference 2009 held ...
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