Month: December 2011

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

Comparing Tax Free Bonds and SBI Fixed Deposit Returns
in Fixed Deposits

There has been a lively debate about how to compare the yield between tax free bonds like NHAI and something like a ten year SBI fixed deposit in the comment section of the NHAI tax free bond. This debate was started by a calculation from Amlan Basak, and then others have weighed in on his
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SBI Tax Advantage Fund Series II: 10 Year Closed Ended ELSS Fund
in Tax

SBI Mutual Fund has come up with a new fund offer for SBI Tax Advantage Fund Series II which is a 10 year closed ended ELSS (Equity Linked Savings Scheme) fund. It’s an equity mutual fund which means that it will invest primarily in shares listed on the stock exchange. It’s an ELSS which means
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NHAI Tax Free Bond Application Form Download Link
in Fixed Deposits

Shiv has just left a comment with a link to download the application form of the NHAI tax free bonds. He had created such a link to download the application form of IDFC and L&T infrastructure bonds as well, and we had to create new links because there were more than 500 downloads which was
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Wisdom of crowds, Facebook’s IPO and Iceland’s Currency
in Links

The Economist has an interesting article on crowd wisdom which talks about how people decide which direction to move to when they see someone coming from the opposite direction, and they say that in France people step to the right to avoid a collision, while in most parts of Asia – people step to the
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