Investment Analysis Blog - Shabbir Bhimani

Bear Market Rally Vs Bull Market

Whenever bear market rally is there its always been a low volume and there is definitely a reason behind it. The people feel tired looking at the market which never goes up and then tend to move out of the market and does not look at the portfolios.

No More High Value Check Clearing

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

Buffett at Annual General Meeting

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.

Indian Depository Receipts ( IDR’s )

Companies outside India can raise capital from the Indian capital market with the Government notifying norms for issue of Indian Depository Receipts ( IDRs ). This has been stipulated in the Companies (Issue of Indian Depository Receipts) Rules, 2004 but there is not even a single company till date after 5 years listed as IDR.

Should I invest in Maruti

Maruti Udyog Ltd. (MUL) is the first automobile company in the world to be honoured with an ISO 9000:2000 certificate. The company has a joint venture with Suzuki Motor Corporation of Japan. It is said that the company takes only 14 hours to make a car.

Is this the right time to invest in Indian Equity

We have seen a 40% rise in equity for over the past 5 weeks in Indian equity due to the strong Global Cues but now when the Global Equities Indices going down we at Indian Equity market is resilient to go down and so what could be the potential reasons.

Should I Invest in HDFC Bank ?

I would like to draw your attention to one of world class Indian bank and why you should invest in HDFC bank at current levels.

Return OF Money Or Return ON Money

Now The Investor Will Realise that the Return OF Money Is More Important Than the Return ON Money

Islamic Banking, Solution to current problem

For the successful Islamic banking operations, it will be on Government to implement Islamic banking. If not they should atleast provide bank status to Islamic finance institutes as they are termed right now do they can issue cheque and other such facility like banks.

Positive towards ELSS part of asset allocation

I am making this statement because ELSS comes with a mandatory lock-in period of three years. This happens to be the smallest lock-in period that is available in the 80C basket. You can compare this with PPF, which matures in 15 years, NSC in 6 years and FD requires five years to get the tax break.