Month: October 2010

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

India IPO Calendar
in IPO/NFO

There are several IPOs and FPOs planned in the next few months by the government, and I thought I’d create an IPO calendar post to keep a track of what’s going on in this space. This simple table contains all the companies that the government has proposed to do an IPO or FPO for, and
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Weekend links October 29th 2010
in Links

Let’s start off this week by an article about insider trading in the Dealbook. This case is not against the promoters, directors or any other senior executives, but rather on a mechanical engineer and a trainman of a railroad company! From the Dealbook: Late last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission brought an unusual and
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Your salary will increase with inflation too
in Retirement Planning

I got this email early last week (slightly edited): I would like to know something about annuity. I am 49 yrs old, suppose I am investing Rs. 100,000 yearly till i attain 60 years and NPS is showing growth in total of 1600000. 40% will be 6,40,000. Now explain to me how annuity of 6,40,000
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Micromax IPO Review
in IPO/NFO

Micromax recently filed its prospectus, and will be coming out with an IPO very soon. One of the first things that caught my eye about this IPO is that they’re thinking about giving a 10% discount to retail investors instead of the customary 5%. I thought I’d take a look at the Micromax IPO prospectus
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Limitations of the way yields are calculated for tax saving bonds
in Fixed Deposits

I’ve done a post about calculating yields on tax saving bonds, and on that post I focused on the mechanics of the yield calculation but that’s really the first step of the ladder. You have to first understand how a yield is calculated in order to judge whether that’s the right way of calculating yields
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Reader Email: Miteysh Shah’s broad investment strategies
in Reader stories

Reader Miteysh H Shah sent me his story about how he developed his investing approach and I was deeply impressed with the depth of the products he covered, and the sincerity with which he took responsibility of his mistakes and decided to do his own research, learn from his mistakes and develop a strategy. While
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Investing for beginners – Dealing with Stock Market Volatility
in Investing for Beginners

This post is next in my investing for beginners series (earlier posts include asset allocation, diversification, things to do before you start investing), and for this post I wanted to talk about volatility and dealing with it. State Bank of India (SBI) is one of the bluer blue chips in India, and a look at
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