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High net-worth individuals, or the rich investors with investment portfolios of Rs 25 lakh and above, who totted up huge losses in this year's price corrections in February and August, are booking profits following the nearly 4,000-point surge in the Sensex since late August. Since the US Fed...

Systematic Investment Plan is a Smart Investors Preference - By Pradip Phalore Over a long term horizon, equity investments have given returns which far exceed those from the debt based instruments. They are probably the only investment option, which can build large wealth. In short...

MUMBAI: Investors showed they were willing to play the ‘high risk-high return game’ by pumping in $3.34 billion into emerging market funds during the third week of July. According to data collated by Emerging Market Portfolio Funds Research, Asia funds (ex-Japan) sucked in $1.79 billion, while...

The market is at its all-time high. What’s your reading of the equity market? Like life, the equity stock market will always remain a mystery. The markets always present opportunities albeit with attendant risks at every stage. Currently, the market is driven by corporate earnings, P/E ratios...

23 Jul, 2007, 0824 hrs IST, TNN Two Weeks ago, when the Sensex had crossed 15000, ET Intelligence Group had stuck out its neck to say that the market could see further peaks. Our optimism was based on a two major factors - corporate earnings and value unlocking, to use two tired clichés. Higher...

India has emerged as one of the most attractive investment destination in the world. Merchant bankers and analysts feel this trend is likely to continue. According to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Equity Indices, which compares the returns from various markets, India has...

Volatile market: Invest at every dip We have seen the markets going up almost 50 percent from the level of June 2006. The main reasons of this sharp rise include fresh funds inflow from foreign investors, strong results by Indian companies and positive sentiments of investors. On one side...

Past performance is no guarantee of future results." —standard financial disclaimer Neophyte investors—it is believed—play a role in creating asset price bubbles such as the tech collapse a few years ago. Just think back to the seventeenth century Tulip Bubble when, as journalist Charles MacKay...

NEW DELHI: Wadia group-promoted low-cost carrier GoAir is looking at diluting anywhere between 26% and 45% stake to strategic investors. But management control will remain firmly in the hands of the Wadia family, said its MD Jeh Wadia. Though he did not give a timeframe for raising funds for the...

Shareholders in the companies controlled by the two Ambani brothers - Mukesh and Anil - became richer by about Rs 15,000 crore (more than $3.6 billion) on the back of a sharp rally in share prices. While the shares of Reliance Industries, the flagship company of Mukesh Ambani Group, hit a...

(This essay is derived from a keynote talk at the 2007 ASES Summit at Stanford.) The world of investors is a foreign one to most hackers—partly because investors are so unlike hackers, and partly because they tend to operate in secret. I've been dealing with this world for many years, both as a...

In a few days it will be Demo Day, when the startups we funded this summer present to investors. Y Combinator funds startups twice a year, in January and June. Ten weeks later we invite all the investors we know to hear them present what they've built so far. Ten weeks is not much time. The...

MUMBAI: The Bombay Stock Exchange, Asia's oldest, on Friday completed a nearly two-year exercise of corporatising itself by offloading 51 per cent of broker members' stake to 19 investors including SBI, LIC and Aditya Birla group, besides Deutsche Borse and Singapore Exchange. The...

The whirlwind of nervousness that began sweeping stock markets around the world on February 27 continued its onslaught on Monday, pulling down stock prices and blowing away investors’ wealth. The sensex tanked 471 points, signifying the fifth biggest point-wise fall in the index’s history. The...

LONDON: Vodafone and a consortium of private equity funds led by the Texas Pacific Group (TPG) have forged ahead in talks for acquiring Hutchison Telecom International Ltd’s (HTIL’s) 67% stake in India’s fourth largest mobile operator, Hutchison Essar, sources close to HTIL said on Sunday. This...

The Investors biggest Dilemma Mutual Funds or Stocks? That is the biggest decision for an investor in India today. Read this article before making a choice that may be wrong for you. The Indian equity market is on the roll for the last 2-3 years. The future too looks quite promising with GDP...

Private equity investors fall for India Inc It was an action packed first three quarters for private equity investors in India . There were close to 246 deals aggregating $5.4 billion in the first nine months, much higher than the 169 deals worth $2.2 billion in 2005. According to a...

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India's Singh, Seeking $150 Billion, Courts, Snubs Investors Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's plan to attract $150 billion for roads, ports and power supply systems may flounder because the government won't allow overseas investors in on the terms they want. Fifteen years after Singh...

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