Issue of 14th Jun-20th Jun 2019
LEAD ARTICLE
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Going by Top-ranking Equity Schemes of the Past? Think Again
Equity schemes of mutual funds (MFs) are a great boon for investors to gain exposure to many high-quality stocks, guided by a knowledgeable person—the fund manager. However, investors face a problem of plenty before they can commit themselves to five or six schemes. The easiest path taken by most investors is to rely on past performance data... Read More
Clinton Fernandes
CROSSHAIRS
On 11th June, the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) moved the national company law tribunal (NCLT) with a 214-page petition to bar Deloitte Haskins & Sells (Deloitte), statutory auditors of IL&FS Financial Services (IFIN) and BSR Associates (a part of the KPMG network in India), for five...
STOCKS
PSP Projects Limited (PSP) is a recently listed construction company based in Gujarat. The company came into existence in 2009, when it took over the civil construction business of its promoter Prahaladbhai Patel. Over the years, the company has grown from just a construction company to...
Ankush Agrawal
MARKETS
Throughout April, before the general elections, the market moved in a narrow band. From a close of 11,669 on 1st April, the NIFTY closed the month at 11,748. In early May, when the media started discussing a much narrower majority for the coalition led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ,...
SMART MONEY
The debt market in India is a very opaque and illiquid one. There are less than 50 institutional players, if we leave aside banks, which are compelled to hold government securities and use ‘investment’ exposure as a way to bypass credit exposure norms. Such a market structure creates...
LEGAL
As we have seen in the first part of this article, when Jawaharlal Nehru came to power in 1951, after India’s first general elections, India already had a fledgling automobile industry. So, what were the options that Nehru had? He could either shut them down or encourage them, yet make sure...
MOBILE APPS
HEALTH
According to a new research led by Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health, consumption of dietary supplements, peddled for weight loss, muscle building and energy, may be linked to linked to nearly three times as many severe medical outcomes in children and young adults, compared to...
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