Mutual Funds

 By: BHARAT RATNA

• Mutual funds should give more importance to investor’s interest to sustain the growth of mutual fund industry.

Mr C B Bhave, Chairman, SEBI

• Investor’s education and cost effectiveness are the major issues and challenges before Mutual Funds industry.

• Advisory Committee to be set up to discuss and debate on issues and policies and investors protection.

The stock market, which

By Vipin Agnihotri

If the recent trends are anything to go by, the Indian mutual fund (MF) investor seems to have grown wiser. In my opinion, investors are not taking the new fund offer (NFO) bait that easily.

Avadh Singh

As the first quarter of financial year 2007-08 is near completion, and with the equity indices hovering around their all-time highs, the markets are awaiting India Inc's first quarter numbers for any further cues. The India Street spoke to a section of market experts to get a feel of Street expectations on corporate performance in the present quarter.

By Dhruva Jyoti Chowdhury

Kolkata, India: In the last decade, when the realty all over the country witnessed a major boom, the price rise of land in Chennai did not rise as sharply as they did in the other metros. That reputation, of being a relatively sober market, has taken a U turn now.

By Vipin Agnihotri

Contrary to the general belief, service tax will not be levied on entry and exit load charged by a mutual fund. Indian government through a circular clarified this. What’s more, highly placed sources in the government inform The India Street, that the service tax on construction industry has been lowered from previous 4 percent to 2 percent.