Month: January 2013

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

Answers to 5 questions about the Repo and Reverse Repo Rate
in Economy

The RBI released its Quarterly Review of Monetary Policy today, and brought down the Repo and Reverse Repo rate to 7.75% and 6.75% respectively effective immediately. Monetary policy is what’s used by the central bank to influence the supply of money and rate of interest in the economy. RBI announces its monetary policy every quarter,
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Mutual Funds eligible for RGESS Investments
in Investments

I wrote about the SBI RGESS fund and IDBI RGESS fund some time ago, and one thing that I wasn’t clear about is whether existing funds that satisfy the RGESS criteria will make their investors eligible for deduction or if there is any condition that prevents them from being eligible. Nothing I read said they
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5 ways to get share investing ideas
in Investments

Harinee asked me to share some thoughts on analyzing stocks, and I told her that my ideas would probably disappoint her because they are so simple but in any case, I’m writing some thoughts on the first step of investing which is akin to generating leads or just finding out which stocks should be researched
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Gold duty raised to 6% and plans to free gold ETF assets
in Economy

The government announced its plan to raise duty on gold from 4% to 6% today, and the worry about our current account deficit is the reason behind this increase. India imported gold worth $38 billion till December last year, and this is foreign reserve that went out of the country. By increasing the duty on gold,
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Is this the right time to enter or exit mutual funds?
in Opinion

Sanjay posted the following comment a few days ago, and I’ll try to pen down some thoughts that I have on this. Sanjay January 17, 2013 at 1:26 pm [edit] Is this the right time to enter or exit Mutual Funds? Given that the market is at a two-year high, what should be one’s approach to Mutual
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Thank you for participating in the CIBIL contest and participant list
in Announcements

Thank you for participating in the CIBIL contest which is now over. I have created this list of participants that I will give CIBIL and they will declare the winner shortly. Please go through it and let me know if you posted a comment and I missed you. If you simply emailed me then that
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