INVESTMENT WORLD
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS:
Don’t dismiss as a lost cause
Not so long ago, FII interest in a stock was seen as a reason to add it to your portfolio. Now, with marquee names in the investment banking business — Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs — engulfed by ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook
As analysts across the globe debate over whether the beginning is ending or the end is beginning, there is definitely a consensus on the fact that this is not the end of the credit and financial market muddle. The unending tales of debacles ...
STOCKS:
OnMobile Global: Buy
Investors with a one-two year perspective can buy the shares of OnMobile Global, considering its strong focus in the domestic mobile value added services (VAS) market. An expanding product offering, increasing global footprint through ...
STOCKS:
Simplex Infrastructures: Buy
Simplex Infrastructures is among the few pure contracting companies in the infrastructure space that has managed to move up the value chain in terms of higher profitability while at the same time preserving the status of being contractors ...
STOCKS:
Tanla Solutions: Buy
The crisis in the global financial markets has taken a toll on several of the key banking, financial services and insurance clients of Indian IT majors. The top-tier companies may yet pull through, thanks to the breadth and depth of their ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Birla Sunlife Frontline Equity: Invest
Investors can buy units of Birla Sunlife Frontline Equity Fund (BSL Frontline) considering its long-term track record in delivering returns and its strong blue-chip stocks orientation. BSL Frontline has, over one-, three- and five-year ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Franklin India Flexi Cap: Hold
Investors can retain their holdings in Franklin India Flexi Cap. Over a three-year period the fund has generated a compounded return of over 13 per cent, narrowly beating CNX 500, its benchmark by two percentage ...
STOCKS:
Bank of India: Buy
Investors can consider buying the Bank of India stock with at least a two-year horizon. Valuations are quite attractive, but the stock can be re-rated only when sentiment towards the banking sector improves on a rend reversal in interest ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
I am holding shares of HCL Infosys and Sesa Goa bought at Rs 110 and Rs 145 respectively. Shall I hold these shares or switch. What is the anticipated bottom ...
BUYBACK:
Read the ‘buyback’ signal right
In choppy market conditions such as the current one, ‘buyback’ seems to be the buzz word for companies all over the world. Eager to infuse confidence in investors in turbulent markets, companies such as Reliance Infrastructure, ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance
Reliance reversed from an intra-week peak at Rs 2,127 last Monday and went into a narrow range ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance Infra
This stock moved in an extremely narrow range between Rs 840 and Rs 930 last week. As explained earlier, our medium-term view stays positive as long as the stock holds above Rs 840 with the possibility of a move higher towards ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel reversed from an intra-week peak at Rs 503 and appears headed towards the recent low at Rs 440. As explained earlier, the stock has immediate support in the band between Rs 440 and Rs ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
SBI
This stock failed to overcome the hurdle at Rs 1,600 last week too and declined towards the short-term support at Rs 1,400 instead. Friday’s decline has resulted in the stock closing below its 50-day moving average as well as ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Infosys
Infosys moved in line with our expectation, reversing from the 50-day moving average at Rs 1,650 to decline towards Rs 1,450. It was a deep 11 per cent decline for the stock last ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Unitech
Unitech reversed lower after a tiny rally to Rs 135 in the early part of the week. Friday’s sell-off dragged the stock below the recent low at Rs ...
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS:
Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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INVESTMENTS:
Insurance eating into MF turf?
With the introduction of ULIPs (unit linked insurance product), insurance companies have emerged as prominent players in the Indian equity market. Insurance is increasingly becoming an investment product rather than a mere risk cover. Of the ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Bangalore eyes resale market
With prices in the primary market in Bangalore reaching never-seen-before rates, genuine home-buyers are seriously looking at the secondary, or resale market, for that ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Low-cost housing, a la Laurie Baker
Rising interest rates, flare-up in steel and cement prices and consequent rise in housing costs have forced the middle- and low-income groups to postpone plans to purchase or construct that dream ...
BOOKS:
What ails SME financing?
Financing SMEs, though desirable and perhaps necessary for banks to earn decent returns on capital, is not yet easy, say B. Yerram Raju and P. R. Mohan Nataraj in Small and Medium Enterprises in India ( ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Put some of the surplus into savings and debt
I am a 27 year old bachelor and around 40 per cent of my monthly take-home salary is invested in equities through mutual funds and direct investing. I have zero exposure to debt except Public Provident Fund investments under Sec ...
INCOME TAX:
Tax liability on sale of agricultural land
I had purchased 1 acre of agricultural land in 1983 for Rs 10,000. I got 2.7 acres of agricultural land through partition of ancestral properties. During November 2007, I sold the 3.7 acres for Rs 45 lakh. What would be the ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Redevelopment — chance and challenge
About 20,000 old and dilapidated cessed buildings in Mumbai, which house over 20 lakh families, can now be redeveloped with residents to get a minimum of 225 sq.ft of developed ...
INSIGHT:
Sector choices hold key to outperformance
Tailwinds in the macro environment ensure that one or two sectors take a leadership role in the year-on-year equity market performance. This suggests that in every market, there are sectors that lead the market. It also brings to the fore the ...
INTERVIEW:
‘Quality products sell’
Shriram Properties, one of the largest developers of IT space and residential projects, is looking at diversifying into the commercial and hospitality space. The company has developed over 5.2 million sq.ft of built-up space ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Tune your expectations
You may have observed that stocks of certain companies decline on the day these companies announce their financial performance, even if it is better than the previous quarter. Can economics explain such behaviour? Behavioural psychologists ...
INTERVIEW:
‘Sectors with higher domestic orientation will fare better’
As the Fund manager of two successful equity funds – Kotak 30 and Kotak Opportunities, Mr Krishna Sanghavi has a distinguished track record. He is now Vice President – Equities of Kotak Mutual. In ...
INVESTMENTS:
Debt balancing an integral part of financial planning
Sathish, 33, works for an MNC. His wife, 29, has been working in a private bank. Sathish had gone to USA on a three-year onsite assignment and returned in 2007 with a saving of Rs 20 lakh. He has a three-year-old, school-going son. When ...
SOCIAL SECURITY:
Retirement portfolio: Applying human capital for optimal asset allocation
Retirement planning is a process that enables a person to enjoy the desired post-retirement lifestyle. The retirement investment portfolio is custom-tailored to suit the objectives of the person concerned. Often, retirement planning does not ...
INTERVIEW:
Start early with small deals
Vikas Jawa is a Director with travel portal Zoomtra.com. He was earlier working with Bridge Consulting Group on the travel segment, which inspired him to start a travel search engine. Before Bridge Consulting, he also served as head ...
INTERVIEW:
Aviva India Bond
Some of the insurance companies are planning to raise their new premium income through debt products such as endowment and money back. Aviva Life Insurance has recently launched the Aviva India Bond — a single premium endowment ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Range-bound movement seen in Nifty future
There was no let up from bear hammering last week, as the Nifty October future finished at 3998.15, registering a fall of 6.4 per cent over its last week’s ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tech School: Gaps
In technical analysis, even empty spaces have significance. Such spaces between the price movements where no trade has taken place are called gaps. Gaps can be seen in charts all time period, whether hourly, daily, weekly or monthly. They ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Hope wilts on bailout uncertainty
The week beginning September 22 saw the Sensex start on a positive note opening close to 200 points above its previous ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
E-mail your response by Tuesday ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday ...
NEW FUND OFFER:
Update
Religare AEGON Asset Management has got the SEBI approval to launch mutual fund business in India. The company is planning to launch its first product between November ...
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