INVESTMENT WORLD
FINANCIAL SERVICES
PRODUCT PRIMES
GEMS from Kotak Securities
If you have a big investment surplus and would like a portfolio that is custom-made to your risk profile and financial goals, you could consider availing of portfolio management services. There are several offerings that are tailored for high ...
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AIRLINES
LONG AND SHORT
Low cost. High tension.
One day last week, I took one of those new-fangled call cabs to the international Airport here in Mumbai. The wife, thanks to her conventional career choices in the area of finance and banking, was off to Hong Kong for a week on work. Thanks ...
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AUTOMOBILES
Question & Auto
I am planning to buy a gearless scooter for my wife. I have narrowed down my choice to two options — Honda Activa and Suzuki Access 125. How do they both compare? Also, I hear that Honda is planning to launch a new model ...
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INSIGHT
Is there a pattern in insider trades?
When Markets crash...
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ECONOMY
What’s ahead?
With India Inc.’s corporate earnings, data from Index of Industrial Production and advance estimates of GDP for the current year showing signs of moderation, investors may brace up for volatile times ahead. Equity markets are known to ...
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MUTUAL FUNDS
MFs: Why not custom-tailor products?
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Reliance Regular Savings – Equity: Hold
Investors with a high-risk appetite can hold their units in Reliance Regular Savings Fund (RSF) - Equity Option. A return of over 65 per cent in the past one year has placed the fund among the top performers in the diversified fund category ...
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Sundaram Growth Fund: Hold
Investors can retain units in Sundaram Growth Fund in the light of its reasonable long term track record and good recent performance. The fund has outpaced its benchmark — BSE 200 — over one, three and five-year periods and ...
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HSBC Advantage India Fund: Ferrous metals shine
HSBC Advantage India Fund is an open-ended, theme-based equity fund. Its objective is to invest primarily in themes that capitalise on economic reforms and development in India. Over the past six months the assets under management have moved ...
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Fund Talk
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Fund Update
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund has announced a dividend of 60 per cent under the dividend option of Franklin India Prima Plus Fund. The record date for the same is February 13.Mirae Asset Global ...
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STOCKS
Punj Lloyd: Buy
An investment can be considered in the stock of infrastructure company Punj Lloyd. A healthy order-book, qualification to bid for larger and complex orders, and steady profit margins excluding one-off expenses suggest strong earnings prospect ...
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Elecon Engineering: Buy
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Funding galore
Bharti Airtel said that leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., has agreed to invest $250 million in Bharti Infratel, its wholly-owned subsidiary that owns over 20,000 sites and holds 42 per cent stake in a telecom ...
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Sona Koyo Steering: Buy
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Jagran Prakashan: Buy
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Sailing on steel
Larsen & Toubro has secured orders worth Rs 1,107 crore from SAIL for the turnkey construction of coal and coke handling plant and base mix preparation plant at IISCO Steel Plant in West Bengal. L&T’s construction division will ...
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Credit due
Firstsource Solutions (FSL) has signed a five-year, up to $80 million outsourcing partnership agreement with global financial services provider Barclays for their US credit card business. FSL will manage and operate Barclays operations centre. ...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Query Corner
I hold shares of JP Associates purchased at Rs 382. Could you tell the short- and long-term prospects of the stock? R. MohanJaiprakash Associates (Rs 321.1): Jaiprakash Associates ...
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Index Outlook
With the secondary market already in doldrums, the year of the rat has begun with deep burrows being made at the root of the primary market as well. These are certainly ‘interesting times’ as the Chinese saying goes. But it is up ...
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Reliance Industries
RIL failed to move past the resistance at Rs 2,600 and drifted lower as indicated last week. Fall below Rs 2,320 would imply that the stock is heading lower to Rs 2,237 or even Rs 2,122 in the near term. As mentioned last week, traders can buy ...
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SBI
SBI moved sideways with a negative bias last week. The lower peak formed last week has resulted in a descending triangle formation that has bearish implication. The stock could move lower to Rs 2,080 or Rs 2,015 next week. But the short-term ...
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Tata Steel
It was a rocky week for Tata Steel as the stock first rose to a high of Rs 821 only to give up all the gains towards the weekend. Since the stock is reversing from key resistance at Rs 800, the up-move from the Rs 557 trough could be the B ...
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Infosys
Infosys reversed from an intra-week high of Rs 1,660 last week belying the strength in the current up-trend. The near term support for the stock exists at Rs 1,500 and then at Rs 1,400. A reversal above the second support would provide ...
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Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel too reversed after a strong showing in the earlier part of the week. A three part move appears to have been completed from the recent trough at Rs 700. If this was the second leg of the down-move from Rs 1,140, the third ...
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Satyam Computers
This stock reversed under the resistance zone at Rs 440 last week. The momentum indicators in the daily chart are indicating a sell while the weekly oscillators are meandering sideways. The implication is that the medium-term outlook is ...
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CARS
Indigo CS: Clever and efficient design
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LIFE INSURANCE
PRODUCT PRIMER
Tata AIG Invest Assure Flexi
If all investments can be compartmentalised into long-term or short-term goals, insurance products are usually suitable for people planning to build a corpus towards a specific long-term goal. Flexible premium options under recently ...
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ECONOMICS
Aspiration treadmill
My friend and his wife live in a rich neighbourhood. Both of them draw handsome salaries but do not earn as much as their neighbours, who are primarily business owners. My friend’s wife wants him to quit his job and start his own ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Baskets of X
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Bull's Eye
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Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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Trader's Corner
We dealt with the construction of W. D. Gann’s square of nine chart in the previous week’s column. To recapitulate, the chart is constructed by beginning at the most recent and significant trough or peak and moving around the first ...
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DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Sideways trend in Nifty future
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INCOME TAX
Financial plan for an IT professional
Kartik, 42, is an employee of a leading software company in India and wanted help on tax planning and wealth creation. He had recently moved to another leading software company and wanted to look at a comprehensive solution.His key ...
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Gift for a married daughter
I gifted Rs 2 lakh to my married daughter. Is this taxable in the hands of my daughter? What are the tax implications on such gift? — V.K. TibrewalThis amount will not be taxable in the hands of ...
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IPOS
IPOs: The rules of the game have changed
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GSS America (IPO): Avoid
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PEOPLE
Investment Nuggets
An expert investor, John Neff was called “the professional’s professional”, as many fund managers entrusted their money to him in the belief that it would be in safe hands. That view was justified by ...
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BOOKS
Get real to fight FUD
Forget the Fed. What you should be worried about is FUD, or fear, uncertainty and doubt. The cost of FUD on our businesses and economy is profound, cautions Andy Birol in ‘The 5 Catalysts of 7 Figure Growth’ (More
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