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My son is living overseas for the last 3 years & visits India for about 3-4 weeks every year.The query is:

For ESOPs the date for allotment or transfer is important

I am an employee working in the private sector. I also own a house (loan from a bank) in the same city of my employment which has been given on rent as I am staying with my parents. My employer is not allowing me the set off of the loss of house property from my salary.

Hrishikesh Parandekar, CEO, Karvy Private Wealth and Vikas Agnihotri, CEO, Religare Macquarie Private Wealth interacted with FE about portfolio stragtegies in current economic conditions. Excerpts

What has been the sentiment amongst the HNI clients over the last six months and especially over the past few months when the markets have turned around? Do you see any change there

Goldman Sachs loses grip on its doomsday machine

Never let it be said that the Justice Department can't move quickly when it gets a hot tip about an alleged crime at a Wall Street bank. It does help, though, if the party doing the complaining is the bank itself, and not merely an aggrieved customer.

Madoff lacks what Skilling, Ebbers, Fastow had

Bernard Ebbers stood before a federal judge in New York in 2005 to learn whether he would be spending the rest of his life in prison.

George Soros goes long as World Bank shorts recovery

People don't tend to make lots of money betting against George Soros. The hedge-fund manager has made billions speculating on markets.

Fighting the crisis, roadmap for the future

Boosting growth and employment, and supporting the “common man” remain the immediate objectives of the upcoming budget. While mounting fiscal deficit is a huge concern, it should not stop contra-cyclical government expenditure at the moment.

Oil at $250 is a pipe dream

Green shoots could be great news for black gold. That is how some traders are reading signs that global growth is returning.

How do I know you’re not Bernie Madoff?

Tony Guernsey has been in the wealth management business for four decades. But clients have started asking him a question that at first caught him off guard...

Drinking to excess is banking’s hangover cure

If you can’t blind investors with brilliance, baffle them with gussied-up balance sheets. That’s the approach banks have taken to try and escape the legacy of bad lending and investing.

Time for a new strategy?

If the last 18 months have taught Americans anything, it's that market collapses don't discriminate. Even the most sophisticated and affluent investors lost big chunks of their fortunes

Mutual funds copy hedge fund strategies in turf war

Mauled by the carnage on Wall Street, mutual funds are copying hedge fund strategies in an effort to regain some of the shine they have lost this decade.

Goldman pays greenmail to make snoops go away

Thanks to the commonwealth of Massachusetts, crusading attorneys general throughout the land now have a road map for extracting multimillion-dollar checks from Wall Street banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc:

Shadow-banking system next up for de-stressing

For better or worse, stress tests of the 19 largest US banks are done. Investors and the government feel they have a better handle on banks’ financial health and can move on.

Does God want you to be bankrupt?

This week, yet another Washington debate over who deserves a break on their debts drew to a close. On Thursday, the Senate voted against allowing judges to adjust the terms of the mortgages of people filing for personal bankruptcy.

Wall Street’s 1929 scams return in Geithner plan

What would Ferdinand Pecora do? Thirty-seven years after his death, the name of this former assistant district attorney from New York suddenly is on a lot of politicians’ lips.

Inflation doves put faith in output-gap religion

It always ends up at the same place. Any discussion of inflation -- what it is, what causes it -- comes back to that never-ending debate between money and the output gap.

Islamic mega-bank prays for support

Islamic finance is about to get its first mega bank if Sheikh Saleh Kamel has his way. The billionaire chairman of Bahrain-based Al Baraka Banking Group is head of an alliance hoping to launch a $10 billion Islamic bank before year-end.

Moody’s says don’t inhale the smoke it’s puffing

Just as the cover-up often is worse than the crime, sometimes the defense is even worse than the allegation. So it is with Moody’s Corp.

Hedge-fund destruction is the route to salvation

Like plenty of financial players, hedge funds are taking a beating. Many once-high-flying managers have been swamped by losses.

Poky police late yet again on Ponzis, thieves

Here we go again. The latest burst of regulatory rigor in response to a horse that’s already left the barn comes in the case of Poky Police versus WG Trading Investors LP of Greenwich...

Say it with philanthropy

Bankers keep telling us how sorry they are for getting the world into the current economic mess, but the public doesn’t seem to want to accept their apology.

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Sharjah-China trade surpasses $1000 mn

Asian tour aimed at jobs: Obama

BANKING & FINANCE

PNB for stake in Kazakhstan-based bank

ICICI Bank raises $750 mn through bond issue

POLITICS

MNS asks SEBI to provide Marathi option on its website

IOC blaze: 'Massive fire at depot left no time to respond'

Sports

Saina, Bhat out of China Super Series

Semenya can keep medal: SA govt

Markets

Market bounces up 236 points

Gold futures steady near record highs

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Galleon exits Edelweiss, sells its entire stake

Nokia to axe 330 jobs in Finland, Denmark

Economy

Asian tour aimed at jobs: Obama

Gold rises, silver crosses 29-K level

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Cement, telecom, capital goods to post higher growth: study

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Ailing sugar co-ops in AP get Rs 270 cr from Centre

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