The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, March 25, 2007

SIMPLE ECONOMICS
Mortgage woes
The financial markets can be cruel. It does not matter if you are a borrower, lender or an investor, you could lose a lot of money in the market, as the participants in the US sub-prime mortgage market have found in recent times. What is this ... More

TAX TALK
FBT on phone expenses is collect call
My employer company reimburses the mobile phone expenses incurred by the employees in the sales team. These are official expenses incurred on business calls. My employer also reimburses the telephone expenses of some employees. Will the Fringe ... More

AUTO FOCUS
Mercedes S 320 CDI — luxury on diesel
Mercedes Benz has now decided to offer a diesel engine version of the S-Class. At its heart is the latest generation three-litre common rail injected diesel engine, generating 235bhp of peak power at 3,600 rpm. More

BOOK VALUE
Skills in finance are three
Financial management is dynamic, not something routine like accounting, writes N. J. Yasaswy in Finance and Profits, from Vision Books (www.visionbooksindia.com). "If you understand finance well, you can understand the entire ... More

PORTFOLIO MOVES
Kotak Global India — IT exposure trimmed
Kotak Global India is a diversified equity scheme that aims at capturing the growth potential of globally competitive companies. We take a look at the portfolio churn over the three months ended February 2007. In this period, the asset size came ... More

F & O OUTLOOK
Nifty at crucial stage
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YOUNG INVESTOR
Be financially literate, first
Knowledge of technical analysis and psychology will stand market participants in good stead. — MR PRADEEP CHANDRASEKARAN, SAFETY IN THE MARKET, AUSTRALIA More

Quantitative approach to fund selection
A fund house that specialises in running Fund of Fund products, Optimix, shares its approach in selecting good mutual funds for an investors' portfolio. More

SMART MESSAGE
On the virtues of selling
If you invest actively in stocks, your net worth has probably taken a battering in the recent market tailspin, leaving you wondering what you should now do. Investment gurus tell you that corrective phases are the wrong time to hit the panic ... More

Investment Nuggets
As one of Wall Street's successful hedge-fund managers, Michael Steinhardt has few peers. One dollar invested in his fund, Steinhardt Partners in 1967, would have been worth $480 when it closed in 1995, a year in which the fund suffered ... More

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