The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, September 11, 2005

DSP-ML's Super SIP — A good combination product
For a non-smoker, a very competitive term assurance plan is available from Kotak. A non-smoker under the age of 30 would be better off considering the special term plan from Kotak and invest separately in mutual funds through the SIP route. More

SIMPLE ECONOMICS

Economics of incentives
MY FRIEND and his wife sometimes keep long working hours. They have found a way to work around their guilt of not spending enough time with their daughter. They buy her expensive gifts whenever they come very late. The child seems happy and the ... More

TAX TALK

Coach me on tax benefit available for coaching fees
MY SON is studying in the 11th standard and is undergoing coaching for IIT entrance at the Academic Centre for Excellence, Bangalore. He attends evening classes four days a week, with each class running to two hours. Will the tuition fee paid ... More

IN FOCUS

SAT order on UBS case — FII regulations grey still
IN YET another high-profile case, the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has overturned an order of the Securities Exchange Board of India. In May, SEBI had issued an order prohibiting UBS Securities Asia from issuing ... More

FD WATCH

Attractive rate from J.K. Industries
J. K. Industries: Investors may consider parking their funds in the fixed deposit scheme, with a one-year tenure, offered by J. K. Industries. The deposit carries a healthy interest rate of 8 per cent. The company is fundamentally sound ... More

FUND WATCH

StanChart launches Premier Equity Fund

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund is to declare a dividend on Franklin India Opportunities Fund. The record date for dividend payout is September 14.

Chola Mutual has declared a dividend of 20 per cent on Chola Midcap Fund. The record ... More

AUTO FOCUS

Tavera's decked-up Elite
BATTLING a slide in the image of the Chevrolet Tavera among potential individual car buyers, General Motors India has reworked the interiors of its multi-utility vehicle to infuse some feel of `premium-ness'. The move seems to have been driven by ... More

BOOK VALUE

For a relaxed retirement
AS if to transport you to a different world, James Thomson speaks of "an elegant sufficiency, content, retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, ease and alternate labour, useful life, progressive virtue, and approving heaven". To achieve that, ... More

INSURANCE CORNER

LIC Bima Gold
TO COINCIDE with its 50th anniversary, LIC launched a money-back plan, Bima Gold. A look at some of the key features of this policy. Plan details The policyholder would have to pay premiums over the entire ... More

LAW LANE

Taxman on a school bus
MARK Twain once remarked, "I've never let my school interfere with my education." And Samuel Taylor Coleridge is of a similar view when saying, "To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill." ... More

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