The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 18, 2005

Mind you, entries and exits do have a price
HOW did you feel when the market ended last week with serious losses, closing with Friday's steep decline? You have reason to worry. Net asset values of equity funds are coming down drastically and investors are scared that they may drop even ... More

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To gain much, never desire to gain too much
Jogin was so disappointed with the markets that he sat watching cricket, disastrous though. Khan sat listening to Sufi music to rise above index incineration. Dakshinamoorthy drowned himself in a thriller. But Sridevi rang the bell to pull ... More

Equities may fall on `risk' notion
IT is not so much of a demand and supply issue or of price discovery, but of a crisis of confidence. Does the Friday's fall suggest that the recent swing that perched the Indian benchmark index at 6,900 points level was a freak wave? Was the ... More

Infosys leads fall
IF International Business Machine and Alcoa spoiled the mood for the US markets, it was Infosys Technologies that shook the domestic markets by declaring conservative estimates for the current year. According to Bloomberg, the Dow Jones ... More

FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

April may not record flurry of FII activity
THE collective sigh of relief about positive FII inflows in March may have been a case of `speaking too soon', if indications about future inflows are anything to go by. Foreign institutional investors say the funds flow situation in April may ... More

INTERVIEW

`Ample opportunities for private equity funds'
UTI Venture Funds has recently made news, courtesy the initial closing of its newly-proposed investment vehicle, Ascent India Fund. The latter, says Mr Raja Kumar, CEO and MD, will inter alia focus on IT, telecom and healthcare. He also has a ... More

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