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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2010
How many infrastructure funds do we need? Well, there are 37 fund houses… Every personal products company has its version of shampoo. Each fund company has to have its variety of infrastructure fund. Some have even multiple infrastructure funds. Recently Bharti AXA launched its Focused...

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It is hard to figure out which mutual fund schemes will be among the best. But, for some strange reason, it is easy to see which fund house is the worst JM Financial Mutual Fund has created a unique position for itself in the mutual fund industry. Its schemes continue to be among the worst...

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There is a huge diversion in the expense ratios of debt funds, despite belonging to the same category. Such high costs are unjustified when compared to the low returns offered by these funds. For instance, the JM Income Fund has provided measly returns of 2% during 2009-10, while investors in...

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Banswara Syntex is growing fast and is available cheap Even when the market valuations of many fancy and large-cap stocks are running high, there are some that are still available at reasonable valuations. One such company is Banswara Syntex. We have suggested looking at Banswara earlier...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2010
AV Cottex (Rs34) Manipulation seems to be rampant in AV Cottex. This company is in the business of trading in cotton yarn. In the March 2010 quarter, it posted sales of Rs3.06 crore. This was a remarkable achievement because there have been six quarters when the company did not post any...

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Pallabika Ganguly 01 July 2010
It takes 18-24 months to start a construction project, thanks to the delays in getting official permissions The Maharashtra government had passed an Act (No XXI, 2006), which is a legislation to provide for regulation of transfers of government servants and prevention of delay in discharge of...

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Oil Country Tubular runs a high-margin business Oil Country Tubular (OCTL) makes tubular goods used in the oil drilling and exploration industry such as drill pipes, casing pipes and production tubing. It also manufactures oilfield accessories such as rotary subs, lift plugs and lift subs,...

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Nagarjuna Agrichem has run up a lot but still has steam left Nagarjuna Agrichem (NACL) manufactures insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and custom-manufactured fine chemicals at its three units. We had talked about this stock last year (Moneylife, 4 June 2009) when the market was shunning...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2010
The exploration major began production from C-Series fields last month and is currently producing between 0.8 and 1.2 mmscmd from 6-7 wells drilled to date. Peak output of 2.8 mmscmd will be reached once all the 15 wells are drilled The government has approved $5.25 per million British...

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Subrata Das 01 July 2010
The stock has been down because of lower margins in the March quarter, thanks to lower spot gas prices, but its core high-margin business is unaffected LNG imports, which were started a few years back to secure India’s energy security, have been facing a tough time and one of the biggest...

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Ravi Samalad 01 July 2010
SEBI has asked the four RTAs like CAMS, KARVY, Franklin Templeton and Deutsche Investor Services to club investor data together and provide a consolidated statement of account for all investments in mutual funds Have you invested in five different schemes of different fund houses and are...

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Ravi Samalad 01 July 2010
SEBI has asked the four RTAs like CAMS, KARVY, Franklin Templeton and Deutsche Investor Services to club investor data together and provide a consolidated statement of account for all investments in mutual funds Have you invested in five different schemes of different fund houses and are...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 June 2010
The Sensex bounced back from 17,374. But it is too early to say whether the uptrend has resumed The domestic market, which opened lower, gained momentum as European markets opened on a strong note. The Sensex settled at 17,701; up 167 points (0.9%) and the Nifty shut at 5,312, up 56 points (1%)....

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 June 2010
The market regulator has stressed the need for matching the risk profile of the investor and the risk associated with the product while selling a financial instrument In order to avoid mis-selling of investment products, market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India's (SEBI) chairman...

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Pallabika Ganguly 30 June 2010
The company’s real-estate fund plans to invest the corpus in residential projects, a sector which has been starved for funds Indiareit Fund Advisors (Pvt) Ltd has completed raising Rs100 crore through a green-shoe option for its domestic fund ‘INDIAREIT Domestic Fund Scheme IV’, on Wednesday....

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Private sector lender Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd said its board of directors has decided to float a subsidiary company for undertaking housing finance business. “The housing finance space offers immense scope. We need focused and concerted efforts in this business in order to reap the benefits from...

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The country's largest automaker, Tata Motors Ltd on Wednesday said it has entered into an agreement with private sector lender IndusInd Bank for financing its dealers. The agreement will allow dealers of Tata Motors access to finance from IndusInd Bank to meet their working capital requirements...

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Alstom Projects India Ltd, a subsidiary of the France-based Alstom SA, on Wednesday said it has won an order worth Rs458 crore from state-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) in Karnataka. The company has received Rs458-crore contract from BHEL for supply of boiler components in Karnataka...

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Engineering and construction company Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) on Wednesday said it won two orders worth Rs1383 crore from domestic and international markets. The Electrical and Gulf Projects Operating Co, a part of L&T's construction division, has secured orders worth Rs1,015 crore from...

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Nakoda Ltd , a maker of fully drawn yarn said it bought a polyester plant located at Kyunghan in South Korea with an total capital investment of $40 million. “This acquisition marks our entry into new geographies. We plan to work collectively to close similar deals in future to expand our...

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