The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, September 14, 2008

COLUMNS

YOUNG INVESTOR: Of markets and selective amnesia
Does the letter ‘R’ turn silent whenever you read the word ‘brokeR’? Fretting that you put a chunk of your hard-earned money into the stock market around its peak? Sulking at the fate of your very first ill-timed ...

TAX TALK: Tax exemption on property buy
I am a senior citizen. I have sold a residential house, for Rs 36 lakh. I have out of the sale proceeds cleared a home loan on the said property of Rs 7 lakh. I propose to invest Rs 30 lakh to purchase land and construct a ...

BOOK VALUE: Boil down information into binaries
There are tonnes of personal-finance books on the shelves, but most of them substitute wishing and hoping for understanding, bemoans Clark Winter in The Either/Or Investor (
YOUNG INVESTOR: The ‘Beta’ guide
Beta is the measure of the volatility of a particular stock in comparison with the market. It indicates the stock’s correlation with the market index and cautions on the risk associated with it. Since volatility is an inherent aspect of ...

SIMPLE ECONOMICS: Handling uncertainty
A couple of weeks ago, I was caught in a traffic jam. On inquiry, I was told that the gridlock was because it was an auspicious day, and that had brought large number of visitors to a nearby temple. Why are more people visiting places of ...

MICROMOTIVES: Switch your asset allocation for better returns
The choice of investments for non-institutional investors is limited. These investors cannot take exposure through mutual funds or portfolio management schemes to alternative strategies such as private equity and hedge funds or even to asset ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: Bond returns
Last week we looked at bond basics. We now move on understanding a few terms relating to returns and the implications of market price. ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: ‘Other income’
Had you followed the quarterly results of companies over the last one year, you would not have missed the huge growth in ‘other income’ earned by them. In the June, September and December quarters of 2007, the ‘other ...

F & O OUTLOOK: Nifty future comes under more pressure
Despite a promising opening, the Nifty September future finished precariously low at 4245.8, registering a fall of 2.4 per cent over the previous week’s close. ...

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