MARKETS
INSIGHT
Importance of the FIIs
THE sharp decline in asset prices last week was primarily attributed to selling by Foreign Institutional Investors. The trading statistics, however, show that the FIIs bought stocks when the market declined. On January ...
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Making a case for tax-saving funds
HERE'S your chance to look at tax-saving funds once again, now that the financial year is fast drawing to a close. With a couple of months still left, you may consider an investment in what are officially called equity-linked savings schemes ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Even as Sensex sizzles
New scrips lose fizz
INVESTORS who were lured by the booming Sensex and the sizzling opening quotes for some of the scrips of companies listed recently could well have ended up sitting on losses. A quick glance at the current prices of some of the scrips listed in ...
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Hedge funds: Are their days numbered?
THE much-hyped mystery over hedge fund investing in Indian equity market through participatory notes (PNs) may be over. Officials at top broking firms feel that hedge funds cannot invest in the stock market after February 3,as PNs can be ...
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Back to normalcy this week?
THE stock market is not a domesticated animal for a regulator, neither it is a football, ready to be played around by political players. Experience of the last couple of weeks underlined these home truths in purple. The Securities and Exchange ...
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Market tied to FII apron strings
EVER since the FIIs first made their appearance on the Indian shores in 1993, they have been playing an increasingly important role in terms of guiding the markets. Any event or a policy, either actual or perceived that affects the FII inflows ...
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Divergent trend
"AND all fall down". Not a nursery rhyme but that is what most indices did the past week. The Nasdaq composite index fell for the first time in seven weeks; this index gets 42 per cent of its value from computer-related stocks. Concern ...
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INTERVIEW
`MIPs stepping-stone for conservative investors'
"WITH choices on the fixed-income side getting limited, we expect more investors to look at mutual funds for their long-term needs," Mr Raghvendra Nath, Head - Strategy & Business Development, Birla MF, tells Business Line. Excerpts from ...
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