The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, December 21, 2003

The stock-splitting issue
COMPANIES should continue to have freedom to use capital restructuring devices such as stock splits. A company and its shareholders are best placed to decide if a stock-split would be beneficial or not. There would ... More

TAKING COUNT

Asset management companies — No sign of any fee reduction
Though asset management companies are beginning to enjoy economies of scale as fund sizes keep rising, there has been no reduction in costs charged to income schemes. This can invite the regulator's wrath. It would be better if the funds themselves s et things right than let the regulator step on to their turf. More

SIMPLE ECONOMICS

Ants and positive feedback
YOU may have noticed a street full of shops selling only, say, paper and related products, or a road with just cinema theatres. Have you ever wondered what drives such behaviour? Economists have studied such ... More

TAX TALK

Capital gains: Where senior citizens stand
WILL the tax on long-term capital gains (LTCG) qualify for Section 88B rebate if an assessee is a senior citizen? Can the brought-forward long-term capital loss be set off against the LTCG of the current year and tax ... More

Set-off and indexation
I HAVE both long-term capital gain (LTCG) and long-term capital loss from the transfer of listed securities. Is it possible for me to compute the LTCG without the benefit of indexation, the loss with the benefit of ... More

IN FOCUS

Software acquisitions — Discretion to dictate deals
"Going global" through overseas acquisitions is the flavour for India Inc. over the past few months. This week, it was the turn of the software sector to jump on to the bandwagon, breaking the spell of ... More

FD WATCH

Fenner India — Belt on for one year
THE fixed deposit programme of Fenner India is open for renewal and fresh investment. The one-year interest rate is quite attractive. The company's fundamentals have also remained strong. An investment up to one ... More

FUND WATCH

Equity funds face outflows

There has been a steady increase in the scale of inflows into equity funds this year. This continued in November with inflows rising to Rs 1,904 crore. But investors continue to take profits with outflows at about Rs 2,000 crore. This has ... More

AUTO FOCUS

More power to the SUVs
IN today's world, where customer is the king, even the automobile industry, it seems, cannot afford not to offer price-offs and freebies. And anyways it is that time of the year when sellers fall over one another to ... More

BOOK VALUE

Dare to be different in the futures market
TRADING in the markets is risky. Riskier still is what many perceive futures to be. But Jake Bernstein lays bare fishing tricks in the futures pool in his book Profit in the Futures Markets! — a publication ... More

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