The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, June 22, 2008

INSIGHT
Are you a crowd performer?
A corporate trainer I met recently shared a not-so-surprising experience. He said he was comfortable training clients he did not know than he was training people who were his friends. This effect is contrary to the home-crowd advantage that ... More

Banking stocks out in the cold
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Investing in property — Homing in on taxation issues
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COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES
‘Writing or executing a Will is optional’
“Where there is Will there is a way,” so goes the adage. Lawyers, jocularly used to say, “Where there is Will there is litigation”. Ill drafted Wills entail in litigation. Recent changes in the Hindu Succession Act ... More

INSURANCE
Insurance lingo made easy
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Birla Midcap: Defensive cover
Midcap stocks have demonstrated their volatile characteristics over the past six months. Year to date, this category as a whole lost substantially. Several schemes have seen their NAVs touch 52-week lows. Here’s a look how Birla Midcap ... More

Fund Talk
I wish to revisit and reduce portfolio risk on my fund portfolio, which I have been building to send my son for studies abroad by Fall 2009. I am worried about the erosion in NAV in recent times. I can invest about Rs 7,000 per ... More

Fund update

STOCKS
Maruti Suzuki: Buy
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Vishal Retail: Book profits
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Query Corner
I have shares of Crompton Greaves bought at Rs 355. Please give your views on the future movement of this stock and whether I should accumulate more at current prices? T Raj SehgalMore

Tech School
Apart from aiding in generating buy and sell signals, moving averages can also shed light on future price expansion. In this class of the tech school, we will be looking at what moving average compression (MAC) is and how it helps in trade set ... More

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
GROUND REALITIES
No respite in sight

Preparing for lower profits, no new investments, and putting plans on hold… these are some of the responses from real-estate developers as inflation, driven by rising costs of fuel and foodgrains, crosses 11 per cent. The ... More

Relax FDI, PE norms for small city builders
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Kolkata stays hot amidst cooling realty prices
The real-estate market in Kolkata has been largely unaffected by the soaring inflation and the US economic crisis, developers and experts say. While the sales and price figures in other metros and cities have shown signs of cooling down, ... More

SRZs for quality housing
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HOUSING FINANCE

RBI relaxes norms for housing loans
STOCK MARKETS
Markets await Jeddah tête-À-tête
Stock markets and governments around the world will look forward to Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest producer of oil, this weekend. The fall-out of the June 22 meeting of members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ... More
Index Outlook
Robert Rhea’s work published in Barron’s in 1932 describes one of the phases of a classic bear market as, “this phase represents the abandonment of the hopes upon which stocks were purchased at inflated prices.” This ... More
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday to: BasketsOfX@gmail.com
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Bull's Eye
E-mail your response by Tuesday to: BullsEye@thehindu.co.in
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DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Play the market volatility with a long straddle
Traders looking to play the volatility in the markets can consider using a long straddle on Nifty 4350 July series. This option spread can be set by buying Nifty 4350 July put and call options, which are trading at Rs 170 and Rs 165 ... More
ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANIES
Fixed maturity plans: Minimising equity risk at the horizon
Asset management firms’ offer fixed maturity plans within the fixed income space. One of the participants in a workshop that we conducted recently raised an interesting question: Why not have such plans in the equity space as well? ... More
INTERVIEW
‘Current valuations are a fund manager’s delight’
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‘The nutraceutical industry is at varying levels of maturity’
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INCOME TAX
Is Singapore income taxable in India?
I am presently working in Singapore. I have been in Singapore from May 1, 2008 and will continue to stay there until December 27, 2008. Under such circumstances, will the income earned by me in Singapore be ... More
RECOMMENDATION
HSBC Equity Fund: Invest
If you’ve been looking for an opportunity to invest in equities with a five-year perspective, this may be a good time get started. The Sensex, at 14600, is 30 per cent below its peak level of January. For investors seeking ... More
Sundaram BNP Paribas India Leadership Fund: Hold
Investors can retain the units of Sundaram BNP Paribas India Leadership Fund considering its performance track record over the last three years. Over one and three-year periods, the fund has been among the top quartile of diversified ... More
Sundaram BNP Select: Invest
With the equity markets hovering near a new low, investors looking to build an equity portfolio have an opportunity to acquire a basket of large cap stocks at reasonable valuations at today’s market prices. The Sundaram BNP Paribas ... More
Somi Conveyor Beltings — IPO: Avoid
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KSK Energy Ventures — IPO: Avoid
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BOOKS
Four financial skill sets
Financial intelligence boils down to four distinct skill sets, say Karen Berman and Joe Knight in ‘Financial Intelligence for IT Professionals’ (www.tatamcgrawhill.com). The ... More
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