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Axis Mutual Fund

by Shabbir Bhimani on September 8, 2009

Axis Mutual Fund House will shortly be filing for both equity and debt products. These offerings should be available by October / November of this year.

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Oil India Limited IPO

by Shabbir Bhimani on September 2, 2009

Oil India Limited ( OIL ) IPO opens on September 7th and closes on September 11th 2009 and the price band for the IPO is between Rs. 950 and Rs. 1,050.

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First Islamic Bank in India

by Shabbir Bhimani on September 2, 2009

Islamic Bank cannot be called a Bank because of RBI guidelines but it looks like time has changed and Kerala may have first Islamic Bank Next year.

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Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Midcap Fund Declares Dividend

by Shabbir Bhimani on September 1, 2009

Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Midcap Fund Declares Dividend of 10% i.e. 1 Re for each unit

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IL&FS, The new management for Maytas

by Shabbir Bhimani on August 31, 2009

After hitting the Down Circuit Maytas Infrastructure started hitting up circuit in past few days. Something was expected and here comes the news.

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Dish TV on new growth ventures

by Shabbir Bhimani on August 12, 2009

I am a very big fan of DISH TV from 2007 and now I have few more reasons to add to it.

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Swine Flu Insurance

by Shabbir Bhimani on August 12, 2009

All insurance companies does not have Swine Flu as one of the listed disease and so apart from being safe against Swine Flu there is panic of being insured.

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SEBI’s Guidelines on Exit load

by Shabbir Bhimani on August 10, 2009

SEBI continues to reward retail mutual fund investors. It slashed Entry load & now stops lower exit loads for big investors.

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Important week for Indian Markets

by Shabbir Bhimani on July 27, 2009

“I didn’t know what was going to happen the last two years. Why should I know what’s going to happen the next two years?” – Warren Buffet. But some predictions of market move for current week.

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Free float Nifty

by Shabbir Bhimani on June 25, 2009

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) was switching to a free float market capitalisation methodology for calculating the value of the S&P CNX Nifty against the full market capitalisation weighted methodology previously.

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No More High Value Check Clearing

by Shabbir Bhimani on May 5, 2009

RBI has, vide its circular dated April 13, 2009, made the following changes in High Value Clearing for metro centers. Following is the roll out plan for RBI

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Buffett at Annual General Meeting

by Shabbir Bhimani on May 3, 2009

Mr Buffet was speaking to shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway company at their annual general meeting being held in Omaha, Nebraska. The value of Berkshire Hathaway’s investments fell by quite a bit and Mr Buffett’s personal wealth shrank by $25bn (£17bn) and he is now not at the top of the richest person list.

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Protectionism !! problem or solution to global turmoil

by Shabbir Bhimani on March 7, 2009

Now US was ( I am saying was and not is ) considered as free trade country but suddenly all the policies goes into the pocket when the situation turns bad and now they have a higher Tax for the companies doing outsourcing.

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Understanding the consequences of pledging shares

by Shabbir Bhimani on January 6, 2009

Satyam, India’s number four software services exporter is now caught in a tight spot. Well, it has all happened due to the general practice of the art of pledging shares to raise funds. In India, this act of pledging shares to raise funds is considered as a very common practice.

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Don’t follow the crowd while engaging in stocks

by Shabbir Bhimani on November 30, 2008

Entire negative picture is brought in front of you, only to make you realize that the stock market is never going to recover. Is that true?

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