The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, May 23, 2004

Active funds teach a lesson or two
Mutual funds have once again lived up to their promise of beating their benchmarks in a market downturn. The mutual fund strategy over the last couple of weeks also highlights, for ordinary investors, the importance of hedging risks arising from even ts such as elections. More

SIMPLE ECONOMICS

Margin calls and stock prices
MARKET participants attribute margin calls as one of the reasons for the sharp fall in the market on Monday (May 17). What is margin call? Suppose you offer a portfolio worth Rs 1 lakh as a collateral to borrow money ... More

TAX TALK

Sale to wife of father's land, for a house to build
I HAVE inherited a piece of land from my father. I intend to sell half of it to my wife. We then propose to apply for a loan jointly for construction of a house. Both of us have income chargeable to tax. Can we claim ... More

One house too many
I OWN more than one house property. Can I claim the interest in respect of the housing loan for each of the properties as a deduction? Will the principal repayment on the housing loans for each of the properties qualify ... More

IN FOCUS

Markets await policy direction
PHEW! What a week it was? Be it the merry go-round on the political front or the incessant gyrations of the stock market, it was, by any yardstick, a week with few parallels in Indian history. Clearly, the FUD factor ... More

FD WATCH

SIDBI: Interesting offer
THE fixed deposit programme of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) is open for investment. The interest rates on offer are 25-50 basis points higher than that offered by banks. Investors with a ... More

FUND WATCH

Canbank Mutual to float CanIndex

BOOK VALUE

Straight from Satan
OVER the past few days, markets have earned many epithets, ranging from rubble to bubble, from handiwork of manipulators to numbers of irrelevance. For some, Sensex is the Satan's apple one should keep away from. Now, ... More

INSURANCE CORNER

Birla Sunlife's Classic Life
BIRLA Sunlife Classic Life is a market-linked savings-oriented plan. Though similar to other plans available in the market, it is better suited for high net worth individuals. The high minimum premium and the sum ... More

BANKING PRODUCTS

Stanchart's `Parivaar' savings account
A FAMILY outing to the bank? Not so outlandish, if you open the "Parivaar" savings account with Standard Chartered Bank. The advantage of the product is that the quarterly minimum ... More

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