INVESTMENT WORLD
INVESTMENTS
Active extensions: Harvesting alphas on upside and downside
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Choose from diversified and theme funds
If you thought choosing appropriate mutual funds for investment was an easy task, think again. Diversified funds, sector funds, theme funds, tax saving funds… the list just keeps growing. What is the investment logic of ...
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HOW-TO-GUIDE
How to read an offer document
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PRODUCT PRIMER
A good mix ‘n’ match option
I decided to drop in at a friend’s house on a cool Sunday morning. As I entered her house, I heard a heated argument going on between my friend and her brother. The argument was over this question: what would be the value of an ...
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ECONOMY
Reining in the fiscal deficit
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Principal Growth Fund: Finance favoured
Principal Growth Fund is a diversified equity fund that invests across market capitalisation ranges, with a bias towards large-cap stocks. The fund has 39 stocks in its January portfolio and the top 10 accounted for 38 per cent of the ...
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HDFC Core and Satellite: Hold
Unit holders can retain their holdings in HDFC Core and Satellite. The fund’s performance has seen a slowdown, trailing the benchmark BSE 200 for two consecutive years. During this period, the assets under management, too, have come ...
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Tata Dividend Yield: Hold
Investors can retain the units of Tata Dividend Yield Fund, considering its improving performance over the past three years. The fund seeks to invest in stocks that have a dividend yield higher than the Sensex. The fund has also managed to ...
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‘Period of consolidation imminent’
The numbers (in the Budget) suggest that the Finance Minister is preparing for another year of 20 per cent plus growth in tax flows. Consensus estimate of earnings growth for India Inc is closer to 12-15 per cent range for FY 09, and unless ...
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Fund Update
Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) has acquired a 100-per cent stake in Standard Chartered Asset Management Company and Standard Chartered Trustee Company for $205 million (Rs 830 crore). The two acquired ...
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STOCKS
CMC: Buy
Investments with a one-year horizon may be considered in the CMC stock, considering its availability at reasonable valuations and bright business prospects. At Rs 808, the share trades at 13 times its current earnings and 10 times its ...
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India Cements: Hold
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JK Tyres: Buy
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Trader's Corner
Of the innumerable chart patterns that are used in trading, a double tops is perhaps the easiest to identify. Surprisingly, it is a pattern that is also the most susceptible to misinterpretation. Double top formations, as the name suggests, ...
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Index Outlook
It was a week of capitulation for our equity markets. The bulls threw down their arms as wave after wave of grim news-flow from overseas pounded the bourses. Sentiment collapsed and stock prices fell in to a seemingly bottomless pit making the ...
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Reliance Industries
RIL has moved down to the lower end of its current medium-term range between Rs 2,250 and Rs 2,650. The stock has closed below its long-term moving average. The weekly oscillators are also extremely weak portending further downside. The stock ...
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SBI
State Bank of India has moved down towards the medium-term target at Rs 1,800 indicated in our last column. As mentioned earlier, the stock is in a broad medium term range between Rs 1,800 and Rs 2,350. The intermediate term outlook will turn ...
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Tata Steel
Tata Steel has been remarkably steady amid all the carnage on the bourses. The stock moved sideways in a narrow range between Rs 750 and Rs 850 over the last two weeks. The near term trend in the stock is up since the trough formed on ...
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Infosys
Infosys reversed from the resistance at Rs 1,680 and fell to Rs 1,475 as anticipated in our previous column. The swiftness of the fall last week implies that the upward move from the Rs 1,212 low was yet another dead-cat bounce. Infosys ...
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Bharti Airtel
The flood-gates of selling were opened in Bharti Airtel last week once the stock fell below the key support at Rs 820. As written in our previous column, the fall below Rs 790 signifies that the stock is charting the third leg of the ...
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Satyam Computers
Satyam Computers could not manage a weekly close above the key resistance at Rs 460, and eventually slid lower towards the support at Rs 400. The near-term outlook for the stock, however, stays positive. A sideways move between Rs 380 ...
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CARS
78TH INTERNATIONAL MOTOR SHOW, GENEVA 2008
Display of greens, ultra-compacts…
The Gabba in Brisbane, Down Under, was not the only place overseas where Indians were toasting their victory last week. In the haloed, historic portals of the Geneva Palexpo too there were Indians basking in the warmth of the attention ...
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Nano — a star at the Show
For a such a diminutive package, the Tata Nano manages to pack quite a wallop in terms of its ability to stir up passions, both controversial and, of course, ones in its favour. The people who are waiting for it constitute both the huge ...
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FINANCIAL MARKETS
Buffettspeak
You may recall a 2003 Silicon Valley bumper sticker that implored, “Please, God, Just One More Bubble.” Unfortunately, this wish was promptly granted, as just about all Americans came to believe that house prices would forever ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Query Corner
I hold shares of Unichem Laboratories bought at Rs 145 and Moser Baer purchased at Rs 254. Kindly advise the future prospects of both these companies. R.K. Shyam SundarUnichem ...
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Experience or regret
My friend’s client buys stocks based on the recommendation that he receives from a brokerage firm. On a certain day last week, he was advised to buy two stocks — SBI and Gujarat NRE Coke. He decided to buy only SBI. Unfortunately ...
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Baskets of X
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Bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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Bull's Eye
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DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Outlook negative for Nifty future
Trading volumes remain moderate
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INTERVIEW
Single-point responsibility will be key qualification for construction companies
Surprisingly our order flow continues to be on the higher side from the IT industry, although there have been some concerns over slowdown in that industry.
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INCOME TAX
Is education loan tax deductible?
I have taken an education loan, from a public sector bank, for my higher education and I pay Rs 8,000 per month as principal repayment. I also pay Rs 19,000 as interest on the said loan. Will I be able to claim any tax benefit in ...
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IPOS
IPOs: FIIs too can take a short-term view
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Sita Shree Food Products: Avoid
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Gammon Infrastructure Projects: Avoid
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BOOKS
Fathom and fight fallacies
When an idea looks both plausible and logical, try digging deeper. It may turn out to be a fallacy, cautions Thomas Sowell in Economic Facts and Fallacies (www.landmarkonthenet.com). "Sometimes what is missing in a fallacyis simply a ...
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