The Reserve Bank of India has recently announced how banks can be opened. This informative article has been authored by Mastermind, Deepak Shenoy. The original post appears here.
RBI will allow banks to be created “on tap” in the private sector. Meaning if you qualify, you can go apply for a licence – much like a driving licence – and get one. The previous model was: you waited till the RBI told you it wanted people to bid for a licence. This wait could be for 10 years. Then you applied and you waited, usually for two or three years. Then you were told that your fingernails were dirty and please clean them and reapply. And then you died and no one remembered you for it.
Here’s what RBI said in 2013 about How to start a bank in India?
The new process will be less brutal, apparently. These are draft guidelines, released by the RBI today.
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The week ended on a mixed note as the market ended with major losses. The Nifty ended below 7850, plunging 85.50 points or a percent. The Sensex shaved off 300.65 points or a percent at 25489.57. Asian Paints, Tata Motors and NTPC were top gainers while Adani Ports, HUL, Tata Steel, HDFC and BHEL were losers in the Sensex.
Here are some picks from the week gone by:
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This post is authored by Mastermind, Deepak Shenoy and appears here.
Mauritius based entities that Invest in India – from Private Equity investors, VC funds, and investment pass-through vehicles (which issue participatory notes) will start to see taxation apply to them from April 1, 2017. This is due to a treaty change between India and Mauritius.
Here’s the full text of the treaty change.
Dude. Simplify.
Okay. Here’s the deal.
Currently, if you are a foreign investor, you can invest in Indian companies – both listed and unlisted. When you sell them, you would pay capital gains taxes in India (as many NRIs do) and some of those gains are withheld before you get the money.
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The Nifty managed to end above 7700 this week but the market still awaits some news to shake it out of the lethargy of the past few days. But that doesn’t mean that opportunity doesn’t knock! We are sure that our users made the most of the opportunities that were thrown at them during the past week.
Here are some of the picks from the week ended May 6, 2016.
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The original article appears on www.rakesh-jhunjhunwala.in and is available here.
Time To Be Cautious & Raise Cash As Market Crash Is Imminent: Technical Analysis Expert
Nooresh Merani, a leading technical analysis expert, has issued a warning that the steep rally in stock prices is on the verge of reversing into a steep crash. He advises that we should exercise caution and take some money off the table so that we will have better buying power when the crash does come.
Common sense tells us that whenever there is a steep rally or a steep crash, there is always a reversal at some stage.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises – Mae West
The week that just ended, saw many companies declare their results. It was a nail-biting experience for quite a few as there could be hits and misses. But we do hope as always that our users got away unscathed. Here are some of the picks from the week just gone by. Happy Investing.
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The original article appears on BloombergView and is available here. The author is Mark Buchanan.
Humans have a terrible track record of predicting financial crises in time to fend them off. Some computer scientists think that algorithms might help.
Given the right information, some crises can be foreseen. In “The Big Short,” Michael Lewis told the story of the scattered few who saw the imbalance growing in the mortgage market and profited as a result. Over decades, academic research has shown that many banking crises come with early warning signals, such as rapidly increasing debt and leverage. Yet economists and policy makers routinely miss such danger signs, in part because the financial world is so complex.
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The week was marked by the announcement of results of IT bellwethers Infosys, TCS and Wipro. And of course, the torch bearer of the market, Reliance.
An action packed week came to an end and we do hope our followers would have made money.
Here are some of the picks from the week that just went by.
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Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is an American businessman and stock investor. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return,consistently more than doubling the S&P 500 market index and making it the best performing mutual fund in the world. During his tenure, assets under management increased from $18 million to $14 billion. He also co-authored a number of books and papers on investing and coined a number of well known mantras of modern individual investing strategies, such as Invest in what you know and ten bagger. Lynch is consistently described as a “legend” by the financial media for his performance record,and was called “legendary” by Jason Zweig in his 2003 update of Benjamin Graham‘s book, The Intelligent Investor.
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This week was very short what with two holidays back to back. We hope you had profitable trading days during the three days that the market was operational.
For this post, we are covering 5 random picks which include positional, short-term and picks from known Masterminds.
We have always lived by the philosophy of helping investors take informed decisions by culling information from various sources.
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