INVESTMENT WORLD
INVESTMENTS
SMART MESSAGE
Contrarian investing
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INSIGHT
Ways to gild your portfolio
Stocks and real estate make up the lion’s share of your portfolio and you are worried about both stock and property prices melting down at the same time. If that’s your worry, gold may be an ideal addition to your portfolio, as it ...
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The brick and mortar of realty stocks
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Birla Midcap Fund: Invest
Investments can be considered in Birla Midcap Fund as it sports a sound three-year track record. The fund’s performance has been consistent, outpacing its benchmark CNX Midcap on monthly rolling return basis close to 75 per cent of the ...
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ABN AMRO Opportunities: Hold
Unitholders can retain ABN AMRO Opportunities, in light of its strong performance since its launch in April 2005. Over the past year, the fund has delivered a return of close to 60 per cent, beating its benchmark, the BSE 200, by an impressive ...
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Magnum Multicap Fund — Selective play in auto, IT
Magnum Multicap Fund is an open-ended equity scheme that seeks to invest in a diversified basket of stocks across various market capitalisation segments. Its present portfolio, however, predominantly consists of large-cap stocks with about ...
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Fund Talk
I am 45 years and have two daughters who are studying. I have been investing in mutual funds through SIPs for the last two years. I want to continue to invest in low risk and high return funds. Kindly advise me as to which funds I ...
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Update
DSPML Mutual Fund has revised the exit load for its DSPML Technology.com Fund, DSPML World Gold Fund, and regular plan of DSPML Equity Fund, DSPML Top 100 Equity, DSPML TIGER and DSPML Small and Midcap Fund for investments on a ...
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Market View
Post the Federal Reserve decision to cut the Fed Funds rate by 50 basis points to support liquidity and bolster the economy mid week we saw markets rally. This rally was accentuated in emerging markets as the risk trade was again reignited. ...
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STOCKS
TCS: Buy
Good strategic positioning of business units, integrated play and strong levers to optimise costs, make TCS an attractive investment.
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Prajay Engineers Syndicate: BUY
Investors with a 2-3 year perspective can consider buying the stock of Prajay Engineers Syndicate. Land holdings acquired at low cost and projects in hand that could translate into higher revenues, superior return on equity and attractive ...
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Gujarat State Petronet: Buy
The company is well positioned in a market that is set to see a big increase in gas transportation volumes.
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Action Construction Equipment: Buy
An expanding product portfolio, backed by a competitive pricing strategy, is likely to help ACE scale up revenues.
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Sona Koyo Steering: Hold
Though near-term prospects are muted, the company’s market leadership position and superior product mix hold promise.
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Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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Giant strides
Realty behemoth DLF is planning to raise funds from abroad. The board is slated to meet on October 11 to also consider international acquisitions. The company has already bagged the project to develop a ‘New Bangalore City’ in ...
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Funding growth
The Board of Karnataka Bank has resolved to issue over 63 lakh shares to Washington based International Finance Corporation (IFC) on preferential basis, subject to approvals. ...
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Biopharma strategy
Ranbaxy is hiking its stake to 45 per cent from the existing seven per cent in Zenotech Laboratories, a speciality generic injectibles company with a niche basket of biopharmaceuticals and oncology products. ...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Query Corner
I hold shares of Reliance Energy at an average cost of Rs 475 share. Should I continue to hold these shares or book profits? P. Bhola, Hari KishanReliance Energy (Rs ...
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Index Outlook
Wednesday’s session was reminiscent of the frenzied days in the first quarter of 1992, when the entire financial community was engulfed by a feeling of euphoria. On this occasion, though the voice of reason prevailed towards the weekend, ...
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Reliance
Reliance kept up the momentum; recording yet another 8 per cent gain for the week. Our medium term target of Rs 2,485 has already been achieved. If we project the outermost target for the third wave from the Rs 1,262 trough, it would fall at ...
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SBI
Though SBI achieved our short-term targets, the stock struggled to get past the psychological resistance at Rs 2,000. The short-term trend is down in the stock but the medium term trend continues to be positive. Wave counts suggest that ...
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Tata Steel
Tata Steel spent the week in a sedate sideways movement, fluctuating between Rs 830 and Rs 870 for most part. Though negative divergences are apparent in the daily momentum charts, we consider this move as a pause before the stock moves higher ...
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Infosys
Infosys spurted strongly on Wednesday. The stock is now testing the medium term trend deciding band indicated last week. The presence of the long-term 200-day moving average in this zone makes it very important hurdle from a long-term ...
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Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel followed our script precisely last week, first dipping to Rs 900 level and then rallying past Rs 1,000. The stock is poised close to our medium term target of Rs 1,034. Since a five-wave move from the Rs 750 trough is nearing ...
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Satyam Comp
Satyam moved sideways between Rs 435 and Rs 460 last week. Low volumes indicate lack of trading interest in this stock. Our view on the stock stays unaltered. Fresh longs should be initiated only if the stock moves past Rs 470. However, the ...
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Trader's Corner
Mechanical trading style is suitable for novice traders who do not have the experience-bank to delve into during a crisis. This style uses empirical data and concrete facts to trade. At the other end of the spectrum is, trading with intuition. ...
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CARS
Blue is the new Green
Mercedes Benz’s aim to take its diesel luxury passenger cars to the US, considered widely to be the most emissions-conscious market, where till now diesel (both the cars and the fuel) has nearly been entirely absent, is ...
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Carmakers on overdrive to woo customers
The festive season is just around the corner and the sales of passenger sedans have been yo-yoing over the last few months. These seem reasons enough for car companies to woo the buyer with new promos.In the meanwhile, carmakers have also been ...
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Diesel myths dispelled, Mercedes-style
After the India Trail test drive of a range of Mercedes Benz diesel cars, we came out even more convinced that diesel can be the primary choice for car buyers. After all, Mercedes Benz has been at the forefront of ‘dieselisation’ of passe nger cars.
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FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING
COMMODITY CONCEPTS
Bigger bites
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STOCK MARKETS
Baskets of X
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Bull's Eye
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What’s Ahead
Strong US jobs data, which came in after markets closed on last Friday, may lift stock market sentiment on Monday. Significantly, the original provisional data that showed a net loss of 4,000 jobs in August has been revised to a net ...
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DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Of options and black swans
We recently met an options trader. He primarily sells out-of-the-money options that are likely to expire. And expire they mostly do. So, he keeps the option premium. His return has been around 50 per cent per annum in the last two years. We ...
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Go long on Nifty October futures
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INTERVIEW
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‘Gold prices will gain further momentum’
Investing in gold mining companies as against buying gold bullion gives the investor an opportunity to benefit from the growth potential of equities as well as the strong fundamentals of gold. There is a multiplier effect on the profitability of gold mining companies with rise in gold prices.
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INCOME TAX
Capital gains on house sale
I purchased a plot of land in 1997 in a resort at Bangalore measuring 6,800 sq ft. This plot of land was, however, purchased by me in the name of my wife’s sister. I now would like to sell the land ...
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OUTLOOK
What They Say
People have talked over the past five years about the investment they have put into India and China in research and development (R&D). But if you look at it in totality, it is peanuts...18 months ago, someone was talking about ...
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BOOKS
The market masterminds
One place where you can meet a hundred investment personalities is ‘100 Minds that Made the Market’ by Ken Fisher ( www.wiley.com). “Why should you read this ...
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