The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, June 14, 2009

COLUMNS

YOUNG INVESTOR: Small is beautiful… but can be risky too
Be it the world of cars or the stock market, “small” appears to be in vogue. In the equity rally that began early March this year, stocks in the mid- and small-cap space have delivered returns that trounce those of their ...

EYE ON THE MARKET: Saving Satyam’s investors
The rapidity with which the stock market has marked up the price of Satyam Computer after its ‘provisional’ financials were revealed, raises one critical question. Have investors in the company’s stock got a fair deal in ...

TAX TALK: When a wife’s house taxes her husband
An person purchased a house in his wife’s name though she has no source of income. The loan for acquiring the property was taken from a bank with the husband being a co-applicant to the loan. Can he claim the tax benefits ...

SIMPLE ECONOMICS: Extortion fee
Recently, workers from the State electricity board furiously dug up earth in front of our house to repair the underground cables. After they finished work, they forcefully collected some money and then left, leaving the excavated stones on ...

MICROMOTIVES: Savings are not equal to investments: Need for financial literacy
The difference is striking. High net worth individuals take adequate steps to route their savings to optimal returns-bearing ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: Are dividends worth it?
A friend of mine was gleeful that a 200 per cent dividend had been declared by a company he purchased shares in, a few months earlier. A little while later Rs 4,000 was credited to his ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: Multiplexes look for hits
Late last week, the tiff between producers of films and multiplex owners over revenue-sharing came to an end. This should come as considerable relief to multiplex companies such as PVR, Inox Leisure, Cinemax and Fame India. The December and ...

F & O OUTLOOK: Nifty future may drift downwards
After weeks of relentless gains, the markets finally appear to be losing some of its steam. The Nifty future closed the week at 4584.35, lower than its previous week’s close of 4594. It however swung wildly during the week, but in ...

BOOK VALUE: Smart investing
The first step to investing success is to choose a benchmark, says Aaron Anderson in Own the World: How Smart Investors Create Global Portfolios ( ...

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