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    Why Mutual Funds Are Better Than Stocks

    Mutual funds have an edge over stocks for majority of investors and so it is important to understand the advantage mutual fund have over direct investment in stock.

    Shabbir Bhimani | July 3rd, 2010 | Continued

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    Stock Broker’s Review

    When it comes to making money with equity one of the important aspect is your stock broker’s service at your disposal and so this time I have decide to review all the stock broking house that I have used in the past couple of years.

    Shabbir Bhimani | May 29th, 2010 | Continued

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    Stock Market Terms

    Thought would try to define some of the commonly used terms in equity arena and I am sure this would be handy for new comers as well as to those who are looking at some definitions.

    Shabbir Bhimani | August 18th, 2009 | Continued

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    Best Tax Saving Funds

    List of some of the best Tax Saving mutual funds. The list of funds selected are based on criteria of consistent dividend for a long period of time.

    Shabbir Bhimani | August 11th, 2009 | Continued

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    Sensex Listed Companies

    People asked me to have the list of companies in Sensex and so I thought of referring them to Official website or even at Wiki but could not find the list in a very comprehensive manner and so thought would add them here.

    Shabbir Bhimani | July 21st, 2009 | Continued

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    Fundamental and Technical Analysis

    Everyday when you watch TV for Financial news you specially hear couple of terms very frequently aka Fundamental and Technical analysis and today I would try to explain them in very newbie’s terminology for every one to refer to.

    Shabbir Bhimani | February 12th, 2009 | Continued

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    All about Mutual Funds

    SEBI (Mutual Fund) Regulations 1993 defines Mutual Fund as “a fund established in the form of a trust by a sponsor to raise money by the trustees through the sale of units to the public under one or more schemes for investing securities in accordance with these regulations”.

    Shabbir Bhimani | February 9th, 2009 | Continued

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    Commodities

    Any product that can be used for commerce or an article of commerce which is traded on an authorized commodity exchange is known as commodity. The product should be movable of value, something which is bought or sold and which is produced or used as the subject or barter or sale.

    Shabbir Bhimani | January 19th, 2009 | Continued

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    Nifty Listed Companies

    When I talk with many people and tell them that its time to invest in Nifty / Sensex listed companies they have fairly little idea about which companies are listed and so thought I would list them here for reference.

    Shabbir Bhimani | December 29th, 2008 | Continued

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    Derivative Trading

    Hedgers aim to profit from the very price change that hedgers are protecting themselves against. Hedgers want to minimize their risk no matter what they’re investing in, while speculators want to increase their risk and therefore maximize their profits.

    Shabbir Bhimani | October 8th, 2008 | Continued

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    DCF to calculate fair value of share price

    The discounted cash flow (or DCF) approach describes a method of valuing a project, company, or financial asset using the concepts of the time value of money. All future cash flows are estimated and discounted to give them a present value.

    Shabbir Bhimani | June 22nd, 2008 | Continued

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    Call and Put Options

    All stock trading depends on 2 terms. Either you could be bullish or bearish. Depending on whether you are bullish or bearish on the underlying stock, you could purchase either a call option or a put option.

    Shabbir Bhimani | December 24th, 2007 | Continued

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TTK Prestige – A Multibagger Stock

It is quite sometime now when I have not shared any stock specific tips until today where I share a Multibagger stock.

2Sep2010 | Shabbir Bhimani | 0 comments | Continued

New Direct Tax Code Hits Badly to Mutual Fund Investors

Much talked New Direct Tax Code has hit very badly to mutual fund investors and mutual fund houses. ELSS and Dividend were two of the few better aspects of mutual fund investing are now history. Let us see in details each one of them.

1Sep2010 | Shabbir Bhimani | 3 comments | Continued

New Direct Tax Code

New taxation rule is in talk once again and so I would like to point you to one of my article where I shared How New tax Code can Impact us?

26Aug2010 | Shabbir Bhimani | 0 comments | Continued

How Unsafe is ICICIBank Phone Banking?

There has always been lots of issues with me when it comes to ICICIBank but I was fine with them until yesterday when I found that ICICIBank Phone banking is very unsafe and anybody can do any type of transactions using my ICICIBank account.

21Aug2010 | Shabbir Bhimani | 8 comments | Continued

5 Most Popular Articles For “Best of Funds”

In a user based poll on Mutual Funds or Stocks, 72% of total reader’s of shabbir.in prefer to invest in mutual fund over stocks and so today I have come up with a collection of articles on mutual funds where I have listed best mutual fund’s in their own category.

12Aug2010 | Shabbir Bhimani | 4 comments | Continued

What Does Charts Tell You? Correction or Breakout

If we look at the Nifty chart for last one year we see one definite pattern. Nifty after the gap of 3 months corrects 7-8%. The dips were on …

2Aug2010 | Shabbir Bhimani | 5 comments | Continued

Was SEBI’s Decision on “No Entry Load” Correct?

August 2009 is when SEBI abolished entry load on mutual funds but did it actually benefit the common man? I don’t think so. You may ask Why? And even argue that – I do not pay anything for buying mutual funds which means that I am benefiting a lot. May sound true but … let us see if it actually benefiting common man or not.

29Jul2010 | Shabbir Bhimani | 11 comments | Continued

Top 4 Funds for Diversified Portfolio

Today I am sharing with you top funds in which I plan to invest. This means that I would be booking some profits from my existing funds and wait for a correction to get into the below listed funds.

24Jul2010 | Shabbir Bhimani | 16 comments | Continued

Best Midcap Funds

Each mid cap fund manager invests in a different set of companies and so performance of Mid-Cap funds can vary considerably. So let me list the best performing Midcap Funds over the past one year for you.

15Jul2010 | Shabbir Bhimani | 2 comments | Continued

Are Mutual Funds Better Than Stocks? Vote Now

Last Week I shared Why Mutual Funds Are Better Than Stocks? and in response to that post I got many emails saying that they do not see any difference in either of them and this is the story of most of us including me.

9Jul2010 | Shabbir Bhimani | 7 comments | Continued
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