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Category Archives: Investing
Public Provident Fund Faqs
PPF is popular form of long term investment which is a deductible U/s 80 C or old Sec 88. Account opening Rules You can open only one single PPF a/c in your name in a bank or post office. NRIs … Continue reading
Sec 80 C Options At a Glance – Fixed Income
Fixed Income Tax savings options under Sec 80C for all For table 1 pf postal investments the rates are for current yr and next yr as there is downward revision For 5 Yr Tax savings Fds from banks the first … Continue reading
The Vadra-DLF Tagle
RTI / IAC activist and Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, Ex IRS turned politician Arvind Kejriwal… has exposed the tangle between DLF and Robert Vadra in his recent expose. Simple question here is why did DLF a company neck deep in debt having a … Continue reading
Postal MIS Rules, Rates and Bonus History
As govt policy goes govts are fickle and keep changing rules Postal MIS with its paltry return of 8% is a deadbeat investment in the Congress or Rahulfnflation era where inflation is above 10% officially and 15% in real terms. … Continue reading
Mutual Funds to cost more?
If regular CPI inflation is not enough be prepared to get lesser returns for the money you have in your mutual funds. Recently the MF industry had pitched for raising expense ratio, which includes administrative fee and marketing cost, by … Continue reading
RGESS : Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme
As things stand , the RGESS or Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme seems to be a dud. The full details of this scheme were supposed to come out in may … but with a paralized govt busy with President elections everything … Continue reading
Posted in India, Indian Budget, Investing, Markets, Mumbai, news, Reflections, tax
Tagged Psu disinvestment, Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme, RGESS, Small investor
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Pitfalls for the Indian Investor
When a govt is so desperate for capital it could do something to make life for the average Indian Investor a little easier , but this govt like the ones before is making life hell for the average investor with … Continue reading
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Mixing Political Interests with National Interests – The big PSU Scam !
Samuel Johnson made this famous pronouncement that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel on the evening of April 7, 1775 The favourite hobby of UPA politicians is to justify decisions made for their narrow Political Interests as National Interests, … Continue reading
Posted in Banking, Corruption, Economics, India, Investing, IPO, news, Reflections
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India Union Budget 2012/13 What matters most!
Thanks to the total failure of the UPA 2 Govt to govern, the problems i had talked about in India Budget 2011/12 What matters most! have only worsened. Fiscal defect is 1.3% higher than estimate… Wow!! something which will have to be funded by market … Continue reading
Posted in Banking, India, Indian Budget, Investing, IPO, Life, Markets, Mumbai, news, Politics
Tagged Budget, Budget 2012, finance, finance bill 2012, india budget, Market, Nifty, Pranab Mukherjee, Sensex
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MCX IPO Update
MCX IPO is about to set a record in terms of demand.. Over subscription is .. appx 43 times as of now. These are Approx figures and i cant confirm full details or my source… QIB portion 41 times + … Continue reading
