The Hindu Business Line : Investment Quiz

1. Wisden Cricket Asia was re-launched as Cricinfo a couple of months ago. Which listed Indian company publishes this magazine that is owned by Wisden?

2. At 43, the number of changes to the Nifty in a decade are one more than the Sensex over a twenty-year period. Name the stock that has been in and out of the Nifty most number of times.

3. Which book is considered the bible for value investors? Reading this book was a major factor that influenced and lured legendary investor Warren Buffett to the equity markets.

4. Why is the Buttonwood Agreement significant in the history of financial markets?

5. In 1977, Hindustan Lever and Ingersoll Rand made seasoned offers to comply with government regulations that required MNC parents toreduce their stake. Name the IPO that was sandwiched between these two offers.

Mr Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group. - Shashi Ashiwal

6. Name the three companies that have come together under the banner of Aditya Birla Nuvo?

7.If you track the FTSE/Mondo Visione Index, on what set of stocks will you be keeping a tab?

8. Which of the marquee global investment banks was the last to list its stock? It has operated as an intensely secretive private partnership before biting listing-status bullet in May 1999.

9. When SEBI abolished the par-value concept, ACC, HDFC and Alembic were the first to reduce the face value of their shares from Rs 100 to Rs 10. This would have been allowed even before the SEBI decision. So which was the first company to do a stock split that reduced the face value of its shares to less than Rs 10?

Answers

1.Infomedia India.

2.BPCL (Bharat Petroleum).

3.Securities Analysis by Graham and Dodd.

4.The foundation for the New York Stock Exchange,

which has listed its stock in the past week after 213 years

as a privately-owned outfit.

5.Reliance Industries.

6.Indian Rayon, Birla Global Finance and Indo Gulf.

7.Price trends of 16 listed stock exchanges across the world.

8.Goldman Sachs.

9.Wipro.

Compiled by S. Vaidya Nathan