Shares & Stock Articles

Porfolio Manager

Ameet 23 November 2010 at 12:54

PORTFOLIO MANAGER Who is a Portfolio Manager? A portfolio manager is a body corporate who, pursuant to a contract or arrangement with a client, advises or directs or undertakes on behalf of the client (whether as a discretionary portfolio manager

Asian tiger Indian bull is yet to chase

Indraneel Sen Gupta 19 November 2010 at 11:47

The Asian equity market have started back it mad bull run from the past 2 months starting from September 2010.Pockets have filled up with soaring profits from lower level buyouts. The phase of the bull have so high that every one If we rewind bac

Equity or Debt: Which is cheaper?

Equitymaster 19 October 2010 at 12:01

Put yourself in the shoes of the CFO of a company. One major aspect you will be confronted with in your job will relate to the financing of your company's assets. Just like a plant needs water to grow, businesses need capital in order to expan

Index Futures: An Insight

CMA. CS. Sanjay Gupta 16 October 2010 at 17:19

Index Futures: An Insight Example: On 1st October 2009, Mr. X got a hot tip that the share market was going to go upwards. Based on this he decided to buy shares of ABC Ltd as it had the highest market capitalization then. Mr. X therefore bought 200

A fast growing firm can be a ticking time-bomb

Equitymaster 02 October 2010 at 13:10

Of all things in a company, an average investor seems the most enamoured with earnings. Especially the growth in earnings. A company that has managed to grow its profits by a factor of 5x to 6x over the last few years is dubbed as a super achiever.

An investing misconception

Equitymaster 24 September 2010 at 13:45

We are sure that everyone, at some point of time in their investing career has faced this situation. You are thinking of investing in a stock, but you feel that the entry price is way too high. And, this is purely based on the absolute share price

All about SIP (Systematic Investment Plan)

Manikanta Raju CA,CWA,(CS) 15 September 2010 at 11:42

This is the market revolutionary change happened, achieved fame and many of us heard of it without knowing much about it. Unfortunately, many new investors seem to be under a misconception that it is a type of mutual fund. A Systematic Investment Pl

For those who want to invest in the right stocks

Equitymaster 14 September 2010 at 12:38

Dividends. We don’t think there is any other concept that has lost as much relevance over the decades as dividends. Indeed, from being the lynchpin of investors at the turn of the century, most investors only make a passing reference to divide

Investor be Aware

Nandan Narula 06 September 2010 at 12:00

Thanks to the signal problem at my cable TV operators end, I switched on to DD National and DD News this afternoon. The very first thought which struck me was that I should better move to a DTH operator, but then I started enjoying the programs on bo

Midcaps: Expensive or attractive?

Equitymaster 30 August 2010 at 11:56

The BSE-Sensex has been trading in the range of 16,000 to 18,000 for almost a year now. It is only in the past few trading session that it has managed to stay above the 18,000 mark. However, purely going by valuations, the general consensus is that