The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, April 03, 2005

Growth stocks: Steroids for the portfolio
Given that India is still a developing economy, the need for including growth stocks in your portfolio can hardly be overemphasised. While they may no longer fetch the fancy returns of the last decade or so, you can still earn over 20 per cent a year from them. More

SIMPLE ECONOMICS

The `random' conundrum
HOW will the stock market move on April 4, having closed higher on April 1? Some contend that forecasting market behaviour is not possible because it is a random process. But what is randomness? A coin toss is an ... More

TAX TALK

What's new in the perk package
WHAT are the changes made in the Income-Tax Rules with regard to the valuation of perquisites? Anonymous Reply Rule 3 of the I-T Rules has been amended. This amendment will take effect from April 1, 2005. ... More

Second loan in second metro

IN FOCUS

Oil refining sector: Implications of Aramco's interest
THREE decades after the last of the oil multinational was forced to leave the country, the doors are once again being thrown open to foreign investment in the refining sector. Discussions are on for Saudi Arabia's ... More

FUND WATCH

Mutual Funds on dividend spree

JM Financial Mutual Fund has declared dividend of 45 per cent or Rs 4.50 per unit on JM Equity Fund and 25 per cent or Rs 2.5 per unit on JM Balanced Fund. The record date for both is March 29.

BOB Mutual has declared a dividend of ... More

AUTO FOCUS

Super Splendor — Big on economy, frugal on style
WHEN Hero Honda decides to put on the war paint, the battle tends to become one-sided. At least that is how it has been so far. But after launching its CD-Dawn in the entry-level bike segment in 2002, the country's ... More

BOOK VALUE

Five steps to financial freedom
CO-AUTHOR of The One Minute Millionaire Mark Victor Hansen writes in the foreword to Diane Kennedy's new book that there are two parts to making a lot of money. "The first is earning it and the other is ... More

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