Month: September 2011
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
Have you entered the Perfios contest yet?
in Investments
About ten days ago – I opened up the Perfios contest where three lucky winners will get a free one year subscription to the popular money management software. There are still 5 days left to participate in the contest so please do so if you haven’t done it already. I have compiled a list of
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How to buy a gold ETF?
in ETF
This is a very common question here, and a lot of people are confused about what you need to do if you want to buy a gold ETF. An ETF trades like a share in the stock exchange, and if you want to invest in an ETF – you can buy it from your share
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A Short Writeup on ICICI Prudential Gold Savings Fund
in Mutual Funds
ICICI Prudential is the latest company to come out with a gold fund of funds, and the fund is similar to other gold funds like the SBI gold fund. The fund is right now in the NFO period which will end on October 4th 2011, but that shouldn’t make any difference to you because mutual
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Berkshire’s Buyback Program
in Investments
A friend of mine had gone to the US to work when I was in college and one day I told him that he can buy stock in Warren Buffett’s company – Berkshire Hathaway, and that will take care of all his stock market related investments. He asked his boss about it who told him
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Create a stock portfolio with Google Spreadsheets
in Investments
I have discussed several stock portfolio tools here, and most of them give you a lot of options, and help you maintain your data the way you want. However, there are always some things that you wish the tool had that it doesn’t and it sometimes forces you to maintain Excel spreadsheets of your own.
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Neutrinos, Italian downgrades and Bing losses
in Links
This was a rather eventful week and I have quite a few links to share. The biggest news of course was the researchers at Cern finding that Neutrinos travel at a speed faster than light, and if proven correct – this is said to have a major impact on Physics. I have absolutely no idea
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Six things
in Opinion
Decoupling First thing – the 700 point fall today was quite painful, and countries all over the world have fell with Indonesia falling as much as 9% in one day. The market in general has been quite volatile, and talks of a double dip recession are gaining currency. People don’t talk about decoupling as much
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80CCF Infrastructure Bonds Calendar 2011
in Fixed Deposits
IFCI has come out with the first infrastructure bond issue of this year, and I was a bit surprised to see how early they came out with the issue this time. They had to come out with several tranches last year because they were never able to reach their targets, and I think the same
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Nifty P/E Ratio Chart and how to get to this data
in Investments
This is another post from the Suggest a Topic page, and today I’m going to write about how you an access the P/E ratios of various Indian sectoral indices and a few thoughts on this data. The new NSE website makes it quite easy to get the P/E, P/B, Dividend Yield on all the main
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Win a Free One Year Perfios Subscription
in Opinion
This is the third give –away here at OneMint, and this time I’m going to partner with Perfios to give five one year subscriptions free to OneMint readers. I’ve never used Perfios but I know that it’s a very popular software, and I asked them to send me some details about the product so I
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