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Archive for June, 2007

The India Funds, INP and what should one do?

Posted June 21st, 2007 by Sidd | 1 Comment

Before INP (Barclays India Exchange Traded Note) showed up, the only options other than regular mutual funds were the CEF’s – IFN (India Fund Inc.) and IIF (Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund). Both IIF and IFN were easily beating the Indian Market (BSE and NSE). Then came INP – An Exchange Traded Note. I won’t [...]

Contests, Social Networking etc.

Posted June 4th, 2007 by Sidd | 2 Comments

I take part in an investing contest organized by visitors of the newsgroup misc.invest.mutual-funds. So far my returns for this year in the contest are just over 9% (slightly above the market=S&P500). I generally buy stocks at the begining of the year and hold them for the entire period. I do very little, if any [...]