3 age old investments!

by sriram on June 30, 2010 in Personal Finance

These investments are probably as old as mankind. May be that is an overstatement but you will know what I mean. These 3 investments have been here for a while and for strange reason are really doing well. 1. Real estate : This probably is the oldest investment vehicle known to man. Real estate [...]

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Everyone should have a strategy for personal finance. I don’t have one. At least not yet. My strategy right now is to get out of debt and get away from EMI hell. I work enough for the government and I don’t want to work for the banks too. I am trying to come up with [...]

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50% of the Indian companies which are registered under companies act, 1956 have not filed their balance sheets or annual returns for the past three years. Any company registered under the companies act is supposed to file the balance sheet and annual return.   The companies which haven’t [...]

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SEBI

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) released a guide on understanding offer documents. With the document title “Guide to understand an Offer Document” SEBI has provided a cheatsheet for investors. The document contains important information about the public offers and what to look for in an offer document. The first [...]

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Intel Capital is the investment arm of the US chip maker Intel. It has a corpus of $250 million set-up for India. 60% of the fund is already invested in various companies. In its latest round of funding Intel Capital has invested in 3 companies – July Systems, KLG Systel and MCX. The split [...]

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bharti

Kuwait’s Zain Telecom board has approved $10.7 bn takeover by India’s Bharti Airtel. This would place Bharti strategically above many of its peers in India and abroad. This deal at $10.7bn is the second largest acquisition ever by an Indian company. Tata Steel’s takeover of Corus was at $12.2 billion. Zain deal [...]

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AT&T buys 8.07% stake in Tech Mahindra

by sriramnon March 24, 2010nin Financen
Tech Mahindra Before

AT&T has bought 8.07% stake in Tech Mahindra for $200 million. AT&T bought the stake from British Telecom. This stake sale will bring the stake of British Telecom to 22.79% from 30.85%. With 40% of Tech Mahindra’s revenues coming from BT it is its biggest customer also. British Telecom has been reducing its [...]

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Top Mutual Funds of 2009

by sriramnon March 16, 2010nin IPO & MFn

CRISIL the credit rating agency in association with TV18 has come with the mutual fund awards. The awards have several different categories. ICICI fund has received 4 awards, Reliance and DSP has 3 awards each in different categories. (Source) Top awards : Most Innovative Fund of the [...]

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How much home loan can I take?

by sriramnon March 15, 2010nin Personal Financen
Home Loans

Should you take a home loan? Now that’s another story. But if you are already convinced that you want to take home loan for investment or for tax saving or whatever your choice is, finding how much are you eligible for is important. *image credit Mint has published a [...]

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Zee to buy 9x for 70 crores?

by sriramnon March 9, 2010nin PE & VCn
9x

Zee Entertainment is in talks to buy 9x channel from INX Media Pvt. Ltd for 70 crores. No  further details of the deal are available. (Mint)

INX has two channels, 9x – general entertainment and 9xm – music channel. INX is restructuring and is planning to focus on the music and other genres.

Why would Zee need [...]

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