Category Archives: Investing
Trading Recommendations from Hindu Business Line
Recommendations Stocks · KSK Energy Ventures — IPO: Avoid · Kalindee Rail Nirman Engineers: Buy · HDFC Bank: Hold · Ranbaxy – Open Offer: Accept · Monsanto India: Buy · Somi Conveyor Beltings — IPO: Avoid · Gammon India (Rs … Continue reading
Trump Invests $1Billion in Indian Real Estate
Trump announced that he intends to set up a hedge fund worth up to $1 billion to invest in Indian real estate. Accordingly, the privately held fund would initially target property in Mumbai and also include an Indian family as … Continue reading
Timeline for Rights Issue reduced to 43 days
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has announced “changes in timeline [that] would enable a right issue to be completed within about 43 days as against about 109 days currently available for a rights issue.” It is indeed … Continue reading
Aping the Fund Managers is a good idea?
Some equity investors may think it is wise to follow investment patterns of expert fund managers. But there are many reasons why this may turn out to be a bad idea, says Nikhil Walavalkar THOSE who invest in shares use … Continue reading
FII and Mutual Funds have divergent views on Sensex
Even as foreign institutional investors reduced their stake in some of the leading companies during the quarter ended June 30, mutual funds were seen buying those stocks and increasing their stake. According to the shareholding pattern declared by the companies … Continue reading
Fund Manager’s Insights on the markets
KC Reddy, CIO, ABN Amro MF has some interesting insights on Fund Management Read it here
Financial Literacy Drive Treasure Post
This post links to a treasure trove of information on personal finance. Actually, April was National Financial Literacy Month in the US and JDR (GetRichSlowly) has the ultimate collection of posts covering everything on Personal Finance. Other than the 20 … Continue reading
Personal Finance Website Update
Nine months ago I did not know what a blog is? Stuck up at home due to a back injury, I was casually chatting up with a geeky friend asking him about how to create a website, purely in jest. … Continue reading
What is Finance?
I was in Rishikesh a few years back in the winters and one old resident told me, “The water is warm when the Sun has not risen. Try it”, with a straight face. Next morning, it was pretty dark when … Continue reading
Transparency in Mutual Funds
Open letter to SEBI by Personalfn.com, a financial planning initiative. It can be reached at info@personalfn.com. I have their permission to reproduce the article. Dear Mr. Chairman: The fact sheet of a mutual fund scheme that is released by its … Continue reading
