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Mutual Funds
How to buy Mutual Funds in a No Load Regime
SEBI has banned entry loads in mutual funds. From August 1, any mutual fund purchase will be invested in full in the fund. Distributors, if they like, must be ...
Commentary
Too Much Pain Buying “Under Construction” Properties (Or “Holes In The Ground”)
I haven’t bought a house or apartment, because houses are WAY overpriced ever since I could afford one. Also the rent-versus-buy argument is much skewed ...
General
Buffett on CIT and the "Cheaper" Money
Buffett on CIT’s recent troubles: (Via Calculated Risk) CIT pays 13% plus gargantuan fees of 5% or so to get rescue funding, and they had to put up 5x ...
General
Courts Reflecting Society
Fred Kaplan talks about “The Day Obscenity Became Art” – on the 50th anniversary of the day the courts declared that the Post Office may no ...
Mutual Funds
A Mutual Fund Trading Platform
ET: Mutual Fund trading platform takes shape The Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) has shortlisted four entities to develop a common electronic ...
Fixed Income
Bonds and Banking: Fork in the road?
Last Friday’s bond auction results (one, two) are: New 10 year bond (6.9%) for 6,000 cr. : fully subscribed 6 year 2015 at 6.55% yield, 5000 cr.: fully ...
Breaking
ULIP Strikes Again
Jago Investor, which has become an excellent site, has a post on misselling ULIPs. The story: A family that had 10 L to invest, gave it to someone they knew in ...
Charts & Analysis
More Inflation (or the lack of it)
The latest inflation report has inflation at -1.55%. This is WPI inflation but the slope of it is doggedly positive. At 234.7, the index is at the highest ...
Commentary
Goldman’s high-frequency code stolen?
Reuters has it, and an analysis from Zero Hedge: on Friday, one Sergey Aleynikov was arrested at Newark airport by FBI agents, as he was coming back from a ...
Charts & Analysis