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The basics of stock exchanges

The stock exchanges provide a platform for the transaction of securities in the secondary markets. Trading on the SE helps investors get the best price for the deals. There is no counterparty risk as the clearing corporation assumes the role of the counterparty to both the buyer as well as the seller.

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Understanding the good habits of wealth creation

This is a guest post on GetRichSlowly from Dough Roller, a Washington D.C. blogger who writes about building wealth, one dollar at a time.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle

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Options for Planning Your Retirement

What is the best retirement plan where we can invest? Alas, this simple question does not have a one line answer!

Moreover, if we really want to plan for our retirement >20 years from now, it's a good idea to spend an hour or so rather than come to a hasty decision. In fact when you are planning for retirement, you are also, in a single stroke, managing your personal finance. Because retirement investments takes into account your financial goals, income, spending and savings. So it is a good idea to spend some quality time on this. (Cross posted on the Blog)

 

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Satyam Destroys Rs 10640 crore Investor Wealth?

Ajay Shah has a detailed post on the recent fracas about Satyam Computers.

He writes,

The recent fracas about Satyam Computers is a really fascinating story. Satyam (a computer software firm) was about to buy two real estate companies: a listed company named Maytas Infra and an unlisted company named Maytas Properties. They were going to pay roughly $1.6 billion.

 

 

This was a troublesome transaction from so many points of view. First, it would deplete the firm of cash. Second, it would mean defocusing the firm away from software towards real estate. Even if diversification into real estate were the goal, there were better acquisition targets around like Unitech. The case for buying these two companies seems to have been influenced by the shares held in the two companies by managers of Satyam.

 

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Stock Picking in the Cement Industry

The Indian construction industry is very large and is a growth driver to various sectors of the economy. It employs about 31 million persons – second only to agriculture in terms of employment. It consumes 40-50% of the National Plan outlay and contributes 20% of GDP

The cement industry is the most visible beneficiary of the housing and construction boom in the country. The importance of the housing sector in cement demand can be gauged from the fact that it consumes almost 70%-80% of the country’s cement.

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