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Moneylife Digital Team 22 April 2010
While the SEBI-IRDA battle over ULIPs is still raging, the bank has emailed its high networth customers a twisted interpretation of an erroneous Times of India report asserting that the ULIP issue is now resolved in favour of IRDA Even before any hearing has started over whether the capital...

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Sanket Dhanorkar 22 April 2010
Pushed into a corner, AMCs are being forced to come up with unique incentives to boost dwindling sales. Among the goodies—a book on how Google changed the world! It is now common knowledge that distributors and fund companies have found themselves in a state of disarray, post the entry load...

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Sanket Dhanorkar 21 April 2010
There is a sudden glut of index funds as more and more fund companies come out with their own flavours. But are investors missing out on the real thing? Index funds seem to be in vogue nowadays. Fund houses are suddenly launching index funds with vigour. IDFC Mutual Fund recently announced...

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Sanket Dhanorkar 21 April 2010
There is a sudden glut of index funds as more and more fund companies come out with their own flavours. But are investors missing out on the real thing? Index funds seem to be in vogue nowadays. Fund houses are suddenly launching index funds with vigour. IDFC Mutual Fund recently announced...

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Ravi Samalad 21 April 2010
The firm, which is into ‘network selling’, has tied up with Max New York Life Insurance Co Ltd and Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance to market insurance products via a subsidiary, through its more than four lakh distributors AmSure Insurance Agency Ltd—a joint venture between Hollard...

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Ravi Samalad 21 April 2010
The firm, which is into ‘network selling’, has tied up with Max New York Life Insurance Co Ltd and Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance to market insurance products via a subsidiary, through its more than four lakh distributors AmSure Insurance Agency Ltd—a joint venture between Hollard...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 April 2010
As we said yesterday, the correction will continue to weigh on the market—unless the Sensex goes above 17,600 The market was range-bound in the afternoon session and ended the day with a marginal gain. The Sensex ended at 17,472, higher by 12 points (0.07%) and the Nifty ended at 5,245,...

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Amritha Pillay 21 April 2010
The company will look beyond the power sector and plans to bid for NHAI projects Sunil Hitech Engineers Ltd, which has been focussing on the power sector, now plans to bid for road projects. The company will target schemes from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) through joint...

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Moneylife Research Desk 21 April 2010
50% of the equity schemes failed to beat their benchmarks last year. Analysis by Moneylife Research Desk Between 23 March 2009 and 23 March 2010, the Sensex has surged more than 85%. This has been a dramatic turnaround from the lows of early 2009 and markets have not looked back since then....

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Ador Fontech is well-poised to ride India’s construction boom Indian manufacturing and construction sectors have bounced back after the hiccups of late 2008 and early 2009; suppliers to these sectors are enjoying the ride. One product that is commonly needed in manufacturing and construction is...

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Mangalam Cement’s valuation lags its growth potential If you are upbeat about the prospects of cement companies over the long term and wish to buy a cheap cement stock, look at Mangalam Cement. Mangalam, part of the BK Birla group, has its manufacturing facility at Kota, Rajasthan. It has...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 April 2010
Mahan Industries (Rs6) Mahan Industries is supposed to be a non-banking finance company which invests in the capital market. In the past three quarters, its revenues were Rs3 lakh, Rs5 lakh and Rs1.83 crore, respectively. Out of the past five quarters, it has recorded operating losses in...

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Sanket Dhanorkar 21 April 2010
They are managed by debt experts but don’t beat FDs by a mile, as Sanket Dhanorkar found out Most of our money is locked in fixed deposits with banks. There are other ways to get fixed income, though. One such route is investing in debt funds. Debt funds are managed by professional money...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 April 2010
Today’s policy rate hike by the RBI was lesser than expected, and markets responded accordingly. The correction is not over still—unless the Sensex goes above 17,600 The market ended the day after a sharp plunge in the afternoon session, paring most of the gains posted earlier. The Sensex...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 April 2010
The fitness chain makes 10% net margin—but the business is too small, suffers from poor cash flows and the stock is priced exorbitantly The Mumbai-based fitness chain Talwalkars Better Value Fitness Ltd (TBVF), which operates ‘Talwalkars’ gyms and health clubs, hits the market on 21 April...

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Amritha Pillay 20 April 2010
Senior citizens who have gone in for reverse mortgages, can approach any bank that offers an improved, amended product—for a switchover to the new reverse mortgage model—which offers higher monthly returns With competition expected to grow in the reverse mortgage segment, (see here), senior...

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Amritha Pillay 20 April 2010
Senior citizens who have gone in for reverse mortgages, can approach any bank that offers an improved, amended product—for a switchover to the new reverse mortgage model—which offers higher monthly returns With competition expected to grow in the reverse mortgage segment, (see here), senior...

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Sucheta Dalal  and   Sanket Dhanorkar 20 April 2010
Contrary to popular belief, SEBI’s clamp-down on ULIPs may not be of its own doing; the roots of the ongoing turf war can be traced back to the finance ministry’s thought process developed many months ago The current full-blown turf war between the Securities and Exchange Board of India...

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When the deliberately created crisis between IRDA and SEBI leads to a panic, will vested interests find the perfect excuse to activate the Financial Stability and Development Council? There is something more than meets the eye in the bizarre drama that is being played out between the...

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R Balakrishnan on saving  and   investing prudently 20 April 2010
Great skill and timing would be needed to make double-digit annualised returns from stocks Irrational exuberance is back. One look at the stock market and this is my first reaction. Prices are moving north on the basis of expectations that keep getting revised upwards as soon as the first...

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