The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, October 24, 2004

Profit-booking will enhance returns
Over the past seven years investors have had to contend with large losses and large gains. This indicates that the need to book profits is as important as staying invested through a bearish phase. Such a strategy will enhance returns. More

SIMPLE ECONOMICS

What comparative advantage?
IN A recent paper in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Prof Paul Samuelson has suggested that the US may be actually losing because of globalisation. This conclusion goes against one of the greatest theories in ... More

TAX TALK

Tax benefits for housing loans
I HAVE taken a 15-year housing loan. The loan amount is Rs 3 lakh and I pay a yearly EMI of Rs 35,000. I would like to know what are the tax benefits that I can get? Navin Reply The principal repayment will ... More

IN FOCUS

FDI: Benefits will flow only with open, consistent policy
IN YET another reaffirmation of the reformist credentials of the UPA Government, the Union Cabinet hiked the FDI (foreign direct investment) cap on domestic private airlines from 40 per cent to 49 per cent last week. ... More

FUND WATCH

Reliance launches two schemes for NRI

Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund has acquired the rights to manage the funds of Alliance Capital Mutual Fund. The deal with Alliance will help Birla Mutual's asset base cross Rs 10,000 crore.

Franklin Templeton has proposed a dividend ... More

AUTO FOCUS

Cometh the hour, Comet the bike
PASSION is beyond reason, beyond common logic and all-consuming. At times, it evokes a kind of, if we may borrow the term from the US Fed Chief's dictionary, irrational exuberance. In the world of performance biking, ... More

BOOK VALUE

Eight ways to get kismet smile at you
TO get money, you pray for luck, as when faced with exams. But "most lucky people are not lucky at all, they simply create their own luck," says Susan RoAne in How to Create Your Own Luck from Wiley ... More

INSURANCE CORNER

Tata AIG Starkid child endowment plan
WITH the birth of a child come responsibilities for parents. The burgeoning cost of education make it imperative to secure the financial future of the child especially if an unfortunate development were to befall the ... More

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Profit-booking will enhance returns

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