Real-estate stocks will occupy a larger share of the market-cap. How do you pick such stocks? Here are three factors to bear in mind.

Real estate has been a much-debated topic during the past couple of years; more so, because it has been making its presence felt in the capital markets. The successful new issue of DLF, coming as it did after much controversy, has been a watershed. It has...

Does the fund industry consider investors’ interest?

The mutual fund industry has conveniently ignored the investor. Most of the policies framed have been designed either to protect the Asset Management Company (AMC) or the distributor. I want to highlight two issues that have been raised by some of our readers. First, the vexed issue of the PAN card as a compulsory requirement for investing...

FPOs are a low-risk, low-to-modest reward option and, therefore, better than IPOs for certain kinds of investors

I am sure a lot of us are confused about what a ‘follow-on public offering’ (FPO) is. That we all know about initial public offering (IPO) is
clearly reflected in the number of applications that flood an IPO. In an IPO, the discovery of the market price of a stock takes place...