INVESTMENT WORLD
INVESTMENTS
Planning for a comfortable life
Mr Bhaskar, aged 38 years, works for a company. He is an aggressive investor. He is a chain smoker and realises the importance of life insurance. He proposes to retire at the age of 60. His wife is 32-years old and a homemaker. She ...
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New venue for investors
Real estate mutual funds (REMFs) hold promise as a viable option for retail investors to participate in real estate as an asset class. While this could be a challenge to the mutual fund industry to manage a different asset class, the scheme ...
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Money Talk
Mr Jitendra Tanna, Vice President - Governance and Strategy Group, BI & Corporate Function, Fujitsu Consulting India, has over 15 years of experience in the field of information technology, including six years experience ...
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ECONOMY
What’s ahead
Inflation remains a major worry for the economy although stock markets appear to have factored in the price rise. Barring a few, most frontline companies have declared results, disappointments have been limited. i-flex Solutions, ...
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INSURANCE
HOW TO GUIDE
Four steps to easy claims
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MUTUAL FUNDS
DSPML Balanced Fund: Invest
Investors with a conservative risk profile may find balanced funds, which invest in a mix of debt and equity, a suitable investment option at this juncture. These offer investors the opportunity to earn equity-linked returns, while reducing ...
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HDFC Top 200: Invest
Investments can be considered in the units of HDFC Top 200 Fund, considering its good long-term track record and ability to contain losses better than its benchmark in market downturns.Suitability and Performance: The ...
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Franklin India Flexi Cap — Strong large-cap tilt
Franklin India Flexi Cap is an open-ended diversified equity fund with a mandate to invest in stocks across market capitalisation segments. Flexicap funds have the advantage of investing in stocks of large, mid and small cap categories. ...
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Fund Talk
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Update
Tata Mutual Fund has announced a revision in the load of Tata Growing Economics Infrastructure Fund (Plan A and Plan B), with effect from May 02. The scheme proposes to reduce the entry load from 3 per cent to 2.25 per cent for ...
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STOCKS
Titan Industries: Buy
Investors can buy the stock of Titan Industries (Titan) with a two- to three-year perspective. At the current market price, the stock trades at about 27 times its likely FY09 per-share earnings, well below its historical range. The valuation ...
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ABB: Buy
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Hero Honda: Hold
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AIA Engineering: Buy
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Aztecs conquered
Mindtree is set to acquire 32.6 per cent stake in Aztecsoft for Rs 117 crore from the existing promoter E4E Holdings, pursuant to Mindtree’s board approving the proposal on May 2. ...
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MRF plant
Tyre major MRF plans to build a new plant at Perambulur and expand the existing ones in Tamil Nadu. It will initially invest Rs 900 crore for ramping up its radial tyre capacity and then plans to double it to 7 lakh in the second ...
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Capital called for
Mahindra and Mahindra is planning to raise Rs 700 crore through allotment of convertible debentures to a Goldman Sachs controlled entity. Each debenture may be converted into a share at a price of Rs 745 within 18 months of ...
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Power IPO
Adani Enterprises has informed that its subsidiary, Adani Power, involved in power generation, has filed a draft red herring prospectus with SEBI for offering 29.69 core equity shares to the public on 100 per cent book-building ...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Query Corner
Please advice on the prospects of Jupiter Biosciences bought at around Rs 178. I am long term investor in this scrip. SanjayJupiter Biosciences (Rs 163.9): This stock is vacillating ...
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Index Outlook
The Indian equity market, in its present all-forgiving mood, took the 25 bps hike in the cash reserve ratio in its stride, choosing to rejoice at the largesse doled out to IT companies instead. Sensex clung to the gains made in the preceding ...
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Reliance
RIL moved close to our first short-term target at Rs 2,700, but could not progress beyond that level. The near-term outlook for the stock stays positive as long as the stock remains above Rs 2,500. An upward move to Rs 2,747 or Rs 2,821 ...
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SBI
SBI continued its gentle climb higher and closed with a 4 per cent weekly gain. The oscillators in the daily chart are appearing gung-ho in the bullish region. The current up trend can take the stock higher to Rs 1,885 in the near-term. If ...
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Tata Steel
Tata Steel moved in the range between Rs 740 and 840 as anticipated last week. The near-term outlook for the stock stays positive as long as it stays above Rs 750. But the formation of the expanding triangle in the daily chart is a ...
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Infosys
Infosys spent the first part of the week in a sideways movement before breaking out in the later half. The targets of the third wave from the Rs 1,212 trough, assuming that it is a flat correction, are Rs 1,774 and then Rs 1,953. In other ...
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Unitech
It was yet another strong show by Unitech last week; the stock closed with a 10 per cent weekly gain. The ‘three white soldiers’ formation in the weekly candlestick chart has bullish connotations. The stock faces immediate ...
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Reliance Energy
REL spurted upward, in line with our expectation, and moved close to our near-term target of Rs 1,544. Strength in both the daily and weekly oscillators and the fact that it has closed above long-term average lines imply that the stock ...
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Tech School
Two of the most frequently used words in the technical lingo are supports and resistances. These are the mostly cited to point out the levels where a trade can be entered into or exited or the points at which an investor can purchase a stock ...
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CREDIT POLICY
Market View
The central bank has adopted a cautious tone and is looking to strike a balance between containing inflation and maintaining the economic growth. Since its last policy review, headline inflation numbers (WPI) have surged over the 7 per cent ...
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RADIO/TV
TV broadcasting — Subscription revenues yet to take off
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REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
Small houses, big demand
Market demand and policy decisions are driving real-estate developers in the South to look at lower priced homes. In the face of a slowdown in sales, the best way to improve demand, they believe, is to offer apartments in the Rs 20-30 lakh ...
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HOUSING FINANCE
No, for now, to a new house
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ECONOMICS
Synthetic happiness
Sometime back, I met a person who told me that he missed getting a rank in the chartered accountant exam by 2 marks. He said that he was happier now and was looking forward to doing an MBA. Was he genuinely happy despite missing a rank? ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Baskets of X
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Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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Bull's Eye
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DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Nifty future may see weakness this week
As was predicted in this column in recent times, the bull party for Nifty future continued to rock throughout last week. Nifty future closed the week at 5246.5 points against last week’s close of 5125.75, putting in a neat weekly gain ...
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INTERVIEW
‘The basic valuation principles always hold’
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‘Cos wanting to tap AIM must be prepared to make full disclosure’
Companies wanting to tap AIM for funds must be prepared to make full disclosure to their investors, remark Mr Mike Edwards, Director, and Mr Daniel Mackelden, Head of London Operations of international law firm Cains, in an interview with More
INCOME TAX
Can deductions be claimed from three housing loans?
I have three houses. While I took bank loans for constructing two of them, I took a loan from my employer for the third one. All three houses are at present let out. I stay in my employer’s quarters ...
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PEOPLE
Investment Nuggets
Benjamin Graham, the stock market investor and economist, was the only investing legend who ignored the subjective aspects of equity analysis. Graham was never interested in meeting managements and knowing what they were ...
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BOOKS
Understanding M&A
Valuation of private companies can be difficult for a variety of reasons, writes Pitabas Mohanty in one of the chapters included in ‘Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring’ ( More
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