Month: May 2010

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

How can Indian investors invest in Brazil?
in Mutual Funds

A reader emailed me with this question today, and it got me interested to find out how an Indian investor can get exposure to Brazil. First, I started off by searching how a retail investor can directly buy stocks in Brazilian equities, but that didn’t go anywhere. If anyone has any information on this –
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Standard Chartered IDR
in IPO/NFO

I wrote about the Standard Chartered IDR yesterday, and I thought I’d supplement that post with a little more detail about IDRs, since this is the first IDR ever, and there will probably be many more to come in the future. What is an IDR? IDR stands for Indian Depository Receipts, and Standard Chartered is
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Book Review: The Little Book That Beats The Market by Joel Greenblatt
in Books

I read The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt last Sunday, and liked it quite a bit. The book promises you a magic formula that will give you above average stock market returns over the long run, and quite honestly I do believe that if followed – this formula has the potential
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Access Facebook free on your mobile
in Personal Technology

Facebook announced today that it has collaborated with mobile operators throughout the world to provide access to a new mobile version of Facebook for free. The new site is called 0.facebook.com, and you won’t be charged any data usage charges, if you are with one of their partnering mobile phone operators. Reliance and Videocon have
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