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Max New York Life Smart Invest Pension
Simple as it may sound, retirement planning usually requires working towards multiple needs — life-cover, health insurance, inflation, taxation and changes in the target based on changing life-styles. Recently, Max New York Life ...
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INSIGHT
Small-cap stocks — Still time to join the party?
Is bungee jumping or a thrill-a-minute roller-coaster ride your idea of having a good time? If it is, then small-cap investing may be your preferred route to stock market riches. Unlike sedate blue-chip stocks that need to be held for several ...
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Excess returns: All about market timing
Can market timing generate excess returns? This article argues that excess returns are possible as long as assets price our idiosyncratic behaviour such as loss aversion. A portfolio manager should follow time diversification strategies to capture su ch idiosyncrasies and follow strict money management rules to control risk.
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Income tax on household articles?
I recently sold some of my used household articles like furniture, installed modular kitchen, fancy light fittings etc for Rs 10 lakh. All these articles were at least eight years old. Will the sale ...
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An introduction to open offers
There has been a string of open offers in recent months, on the back of a wave of takeovers and stake hikes by the promoters of India Inc. The stock prices of companies for which offers have been made have also zoomed.Just what are ...
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More options on trading platforms
Alternative trading systems permit electronic order-matching and trade execution outside the confines of a stock exchange. More on this option.
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Sundaram BNP Paribas S.M.I.L.E: Hold
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DSPML Equity Fund: Invest
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Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity — In tune with the market themes
Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity, a fund that seeks to invest in a diversified portfolio with a large-cap tilt, has consistently outperformed its benchmark — the BSE 200 — over one, three and five-year periods. A look at the degree ...
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Special Situations Fund from Birla Sun Life
Birla Sun Life is launching a Special Situations Fund on December 17 that will hunt for contrarian opportunities in the stock market. The fund will invest at least 80 per cent of its corpus in equities. Events such as M&A, private ...
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STOCKS
Ipca Labs: Buy
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Everest Kanto Cylinders: Buy
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Tantia Constructions: Buy
Investors with a two-three year perspective can consider investing in the stock of Tantia Constructions. Strong order book, superior operating profit margins and well-entrenched presence in the eastern region are positives for this company. At ...
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What’s Ahead
Investors should keep a close watch the small and mid-cap space as their rally may continue on momentum buying. After the US Fed reduced its Fed Funds rate by 0.25 per cent, attention has now shifted towards the next Bank of Japan meeting of ...
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Promising venture
Praj Industries has formed a joint venture with Brazil’s Jaragua Equipamentos Industriais, wherein Praj will hold 54 a per cent stake. The venture, situated in Brazil, will provide the company an entry into the global ethanol ...
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Relying on capital
Global investment fund Eton Park has agreed to buy five per cent equity stake in Reliance Capital’s 100 per cent subsidiary, Reliance Capital Asset Management, for Rs 501 crore. Funds would be used to expand its domestic and ...
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Finally print
Media company Television Eighteen has acquired a 40 per cent stake in publisher Infomedia India for Rs 178 crore, thus marking its entry into the print business. It is to acquire another 20 per cent stake in the company through an open offer ...
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Joining forces
Bharti Airtel’s subsidiary, Bharti Infratel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone Essar have agreed to form an independent tower company, Indus Towers, to provide passive infrastructure services in India to all operators on a non-discriminatory ...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Technical Analysis Q&A
I have bought Dr Reddy’s Labs at Rs 780 and Dolphin Medicals at Rs 25. Should I continue to hold on to these shares? Uday Padubidri Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (Rs 717.9): ...
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Trader's Corner
Humans are an optimistic bunch. They love sunshine, smiling faces, happy endings and soaring markets. Perhaps it is this natural trait that draws the investors to stock markets in the final stages of a bull market when things are rosy with ...
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Reliance Industries
Reliance remained steadfastly glued to a narrow trading band last week too. Volumes continued to be indifferent and the momentum indicators are beginning to look fatigued. But the stock could be charting a shallow correction instead of a deep ...
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SBI
SBI could not get past the resistance at Rs 2,500 indicated last week and the stock slipped to an intra week low of Rs 2,350. The near-term supports for the stock are at Rs 2,360 and then Rs 2,260. Traders can buy the stock in correction, as ...
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Tata Steel
This stock moved down in the initial part of last week and achieved our first downward target of Rs 776. But a three-wave move was completed at the intra-week low of Rs 765 and the stock is currently rebounding from here. Tata Steel faces ...
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Infosys
Infosys moved precisely in line with our anticipation last week; reversing from an intra week high at Rs 1,770. A bearish dark cloud cover pattern is evident in the weekly candlestick chart. The resistance area indicated last week ...
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Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel achieved our short-term target of Rs 1,066 before moving lower, reinforcing our cautious medium-term outlook. The 10-week ROC oscillator slipping in to the negative zone is yet another signal that the stock could have commenced ...
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Satyam Computer
Satyam put up a disappointing show last week. It failed to move past the resistance band between Rs 455 and Rs 460. The reversal from this band was vicious; pulling the stock back to its long-term support at Rs 400. This support has been ...
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CARS
Bologna Motor Show 2007 — Showcased at the home of speed
The Bologna Motor Show is relatively compact compared to the biggies in Europe — the Geneva and Frankfurt motor shows. But it is still a premier event. A roundup of the 2007 edition of the Show.
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The show stoppers
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European debut of i10
Hyundai chose this year’s Bologna Motor Show to debut the new i10 for the European market. The market for small hatches and sub-compacts is fairly big in Europe, including the Italian market, where it will be launched initially. ...
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New Star from Suzuki
These are the first official pictures of the Suzuki A-Star concept. A concept sub-compact car that will be the platform on which Suzuki’s next global small car will be made. The A-Star concept will be showcased at the forthcoming ...
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FINANCIAL MARKETS
LONG AND SHORT
Factor in those biases and quirks
In 1985, a 17-page paper was published in the Journal of Monetary Economics. The paper, titled “The Equity Premium — A Puzzle” was authored by Rajnish Mehra and Edward C. Prescott. It would go on to be ...
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STOCK MARKETS
It’s about emotional, not financial return
Last week, I placed a limit buy-order on Geojit Financial. Only half my order was filled. Later in the day, when I logged-in to check how my portfolio was doing, I found that Geojit had hit the upper circuit. I was pleased that I had timed my ...
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Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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