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The Rs905 crore collected by Axis Bank through its banking channel helped net equity inflows turn positive (Rs980 crore) in January after five months of decline After a continuous drain of five months, equity mutual funds (MFs) have recorded positive inflows. Axis Mutual Fund, supported by...

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Swapnil Suvarna 15 February 2010
Index heavyweight Bharti Airtel’s decline, surge in inflation and China’s surprise move to restrict bank lending weighed heavily on Indian markets Indian markets remained highly volatile during the day following index heavyweight Bharti Airtel’s massive slump and a jump in inflation. China’s...

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Sanket Dhanorkar 15 February 2010
One of the reasons for the dwindling investor population in India is the complicated and drawn-out KYC procedure, say industry experts The Indian government’s efforts towards strengthening identification norms have had an adverse impact in the most unexpected quarters. Apparently, the much...

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Sanket Dhanorkar 15 February 2010
One of the reasons for the dwindling investor population in India is the complicated and drawn-out KYC procedure, say industry experts The Indian government’s efforts towards strengthening identification norms have had an adverse impact in the most unexpected quarters. Apparently, the much...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 February 2010
An increasing number of HNIs are openly bargaining with fund distributors to get a share of trail commission The confusion over accounting of trail commissions continues to rattle the mutual fund industry. On the one hand, there was a clear need to stop the practice of tying investors to a...

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As suggested last time, we got a weak rally. The market trend is still up. Watch 16,500 on the Sensex Last week, we had said that we expected a weak rally under which the Sensex  will reach about 16,500 and possibly to 17,000 before pausing or going down again. There was a rally and it was...

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Pallabika Ganguly 11 February 2010
Hathway subscribers from these cities and certain parts of Maharashtra would be deprived of viewing 33 TV channels offered by Zee Turner. Hathway’s IPO also received a lukewarm response from investors Zee Turner, a joint venture between the Turner Group and the Essel Group, said that it has...

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Ravi Samalad 11 February 2010
A majority of cement stocks are seeing an upward momentum backed by good demand, but the trend is unlikely to continue Cement shares have been going up since the last month due to robust demand. However, concerns of oversupply are likely to hit the industry in the long run, which can lead to...

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Swapnil Suvarna 11 February 2010
Indian bourses gained following positive trends in global markets Indian markets remained in the green on the back of strong Asian markets powered by strong economic data from Australia and China, and ahead of a key European Union summit that could lay out a rescue plan for debt-stricken...

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Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves is going to come to our rescue and that we will live happily ever after. Nowadays, one can only hope against hope The recent events related with Mumbai and Maharashtra have left me thinking over my real problems, completely ignored...

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Sucheta Dalal  and   Ravi Samalad 10 February 2010
DB Realty’s IPO received just 23,000 applications after the company spent Rs13.50 crore for its ads in The Times of India alone. NTPC’s FPO received just 80,000 applications. This has set the alarm bells ringing for decision makers Retail investors continue to shun public issues. This has at...

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Moneylife Research Team 10 February 2010
Scared of equities? Don’t have the time and expertise to research? What if there were outstanding companies that consistently generate excellent returns, as great equities should, and yet are as safe as bonds over the long term? The Moneylife Research Team picked five stocks that meet this...

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Essentially, the Indian mutual fund industry is driven by 39 key stocks! India may boast of the one of oldest stock markets and also one of the most active stock markets in the world, but fund managers find it hard to pick stocks. When we pulled out data on all the stocks in the portfolios...

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Swapnil Suvarna 09 February 2010
A surge in Asian markets triggered a 100-point rally in Indian bourses Indian markets gained momentum during the day as Asian markets ended positively. At the end of the day, the Sensex shot up 107 points from the previous day’s close to 16,042 while the Nifty closed at 4,793, up 32 points....

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Amritha Pillay 09 February 2010
A number of investors who invested in the Osian Art Fund through ABN AMRO are still awaiting first payments. As per sources, there are more than 100 such investors Seven months after a poor exit in July 2009, not all investors in the Osian Art Fund have been paid their first instalment of...

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Sanket Dhanorkar 09 February 2010
Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley maintains that recovery in global economies remains weak. While sounding cautious on Asian revival, he remains positive on India In a frank discussion on global economic trends, Asian markets and the Indian economy, the chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, Stephen...

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Retail investors are an endangered species. This will undermine the government’s disinvestment plans The disinvestment of public sector undertakings (PSUs) has usually lurched from one controversial strategy to another. It started in 1991 with the strange decision to bunch PSUs into...

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R Balakrishnan on saving  and   investing prudently 09 February 2010
From mindless government interference to wasteful expenditure, the many reasons to shun the stocks of government-owned companies The planned disinvestment of government (PSU) companies is keeping these stocks buoyant. Normally, when there is a likelihood of fresh supplies (whether it is sugar...

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Ravi Samalad 08 February 2010
Promoters hold 18% and affiliates hold 77.5% of the paid-up equity capital in Asianet, a direct competitor. There are 23 criminal cases pending against the company, its subsidiaries and promoters Cable TV provider Hathway Cable and Datacom Ltd (Hathway) is planning to raise Rs500 crore from...

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Swapnil Suvarna 08 February 2010
Volatility ruled the day in Indian markets on the back of weak global cues Indian markets remained highly volatile during the day following weak global cues. However, a positive opening at European markets on the possible easing of European debt worries helped Indian markets to recover. The...

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