The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, September 18, 2005

Risk, returns and disciplined investing
If earnings growth stays low over the next five years and the PE also declines, then annual returns would not be attractive. If the decline in PE were sharper, you may wish you had never invested in equities. More

SIMPLE ECONOMICS

Equity risk premium
THE S&P CNX Nifty returned 45 per cent since last September, much higher than the return on a one-year government bond. The return on equity is higher because of risk premium. What is this premium? Suppose the ... More

TAX TALK

A brother and sister tie-up on property
A PREMISES is owned jointly and in equal proportion by a brother and sister. This premises is let on lease to a bank. The rent that used to be paid by the bank until 1998-99 was Rs 9,900 per month to each co-owner. ... More

Tackling capital gains
I AM a government servant and also invest in shares. In the financial year 2004-05, my taxable salary income was Rs 1,30,000. I also have short-term capital gains worth of Rs 10,000 and long-term capital gains of Rs ... More

FUND WATCH

Greater leeway for MFs in F&O market

Mutual funds have been given greater leeway to participate in the futures and options market. They will now be on par with the FIIs. So far they have been allowed to invest in such products for hedging and rebalancing of portfolios. Mutual ... More

AUTO FOCUS

Taking women on a ride
THE automobile industry is in a sudden rush to cater to the transportation needs of the fairer sex. Vying with one another, the current bunch of scooterette manufacturers and potential players are trying to roll out ... More

BOOK VALUE

For every success story there are at least 10 failures
DALAL Street is a fascinating world created by Mammon, says N.J. Yasaswy in line one, chapter 1 of "Intelligent Stock Market Investing", from Vision (www. visionbooksindia. com). "An ordinary bull on an ordinary Indian street may look fairly ... More

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