The best way to invest in a mutual fund is via a systematic investment plan. So you commit to putting…
I think every single stock investor in the world instinctively disbelieves in the Efficient Market Hypothesis. That’s why we’re investors,…
Oh my God! Speculation! ?The stock market is nothing but speculation?, often hisses my friend, who is a leftist intellectual.…
On the last day of 2007, Sebi brought in new regulations that forbade mutual fund companies from charging load from…
On the last day of last year, Sebi chief M Damodaran announced that the market regulator had a new year’s…
Yesterday, while reading some comments on the net about Benazir Bhutto?s ghastly but all-too-predictable fate, I came across references to…
The huge run-up in the infrastructure sector worked wonders for various mutual funds and has put most real estate companies…
A comparison of 2007?s best and worst funds confirms the fact that execution is more important than concept and that…
There are two ways of differentiating a fund. Either you can differentiate by the actual track record of the fund…
Offer documents, and other mandatory disclosures, need to be designed with the focus not on how much information can be…
While choosing an MIP for your portfolio, don?t just look at the performance, but do check the asset allocation patterns,…
In its purest sense, alpha is the measure of a fund?s risk-adjusted return relative to the market. It measures the…
So there was this village where one day a man appeared and said that he wanted to buy monkeys. He…
The education of the Indian investor continues. A few weeks ago, we all learned a new word ?subprime?. And along…
Ever since the bulls and bears began slugging it out over the past few months, equity fund managers are trying…
Though banking stocks have done extremely well over the past year, there are very few funds dedicated to this sector.…
While the state of infrastructure in this country has always presented a phenomenal potential to make big bucks, it was…
The BSE Sensex is past 17,000, at least for now. For many newspapers, the task of writing smart headlines was…
