Issue of 1st Jun-7th Jun 2018
LEAD ARTICLE
financial magazines in india
Mutual Fund Size: A Boon or Curse for Performance?
Does the size of a mutual fund (MF) scheme or its assets under management (AUMs), as the industry calls it, make a difference to its performance? A fund house managing large sums of money relative to its peers enjoys a greater influence in attracting new investors to its schemes. Big fund houses manage assets worth thousands of crores of... Read More
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CROSSHAIRS
In a sensational twist to the investigation into the misuse of co-location facilities of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) by select brokers (also known as the algo scam), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seems to have sidelined the powerful market regulator and has filed a first...
STOCKS
Among the most common questions subscribers of stockletters of our associate company Moneylife Advisory Services ask us are about good stocks that have declined precipitously. Frequently, the question is: Should I buy more of the stock, now that it has fallen a lot, and thereby reduce my...
Thyrocare, a countrywide network of diagnostic laboratories, has everything going right for it. Consumer-facing business? Check. Outstanding and ethical promoter? Check. Business growth? Check, thanks to frequent and unnecessary tests prescribed by doctors. High return on assets? Check. High...
Acrysil was an extremely promising stock between 2008 and 2011 when it recorded strong growth as its revenues and profits grew on the back of low debt. However, the promise of its unique product range has been belied. Acrysil, which makes quartz kitchen sinks, has been struggling to grow...
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INSURANCE
SBI General has launched Arogya Top-up health insurance. Super top-up and top-up policies are cheaper than mediclaim as there is a deductible to be met before the policy starts paying. There is a difference between the two and, hence, buyers need to be cautious. The difference between super...
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BORROWING
Where there is an asset, can the lender be far behind? After loan against property, here comes loan against mutual funds (MFs). HDFC Bank has launched an online overdraft (OD) facility that can be set up in under three minutes, for lending money against your mutual fund holdings. The Bank has...
Clinton Fernandes
TECHNOLOGY
The media is full of advertisements for new-age, know-all, and ever-helpful voice assistants offered by Amazon (Alexa), Siri from Apple and Google Assistant. "Alexa, what is the capital of Canada?" asks the girl in the ad. And bang comes the answer, leaving the common viewer hypnotised. How...
Are you addicted to your phone? Need to impose self-discipline and just can't get yourself to do it? Lock Me Out is a powerful app that allows you to lock yourself out of your device!   As soon as you install and run the app, you will see two rows of big red buttons offering to lock...
The Pomodoro Technique® is a popular time management method developed in the late 1980s. It’s really simple. You break down your work into 25-minute intervals separated by short breaks. These intervals are named pomodoros, the plural in English of the Italian word pomodoro (tomato), after the...
HEALTH
A daily dose of baking soda (half teaspoon) may help reduce the destructive inflammation of auto-immune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. Baking soda is a cheap, over-the-counter antacid which can encourage our spleen to promote an anti-inflammatory environment that could be therapeutic for...
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BOOK REVIEWS
On 9 May 2017, James Comey, director of the powerful US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was addressing his colleagues at Los Angeles bureau. He explained that FBI had rewritten its mission statement in 2015 to make it shorter and to better express the importance of its responsibility....
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