The technology components that make up Quora http://bit.ly/eTD3g8
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Why Startups Fail: An Analysis of Post-Mortems http://bit.ly/g1fTOH
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Great list of books for the R programming language (statistical correlation) http://www.r-bloggers.com/r-programming-books-updated/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+RBloggers+(R+bloggers)
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Shubhojit Chatterjee asks “Can you please help us to know how to trade in Sensex as we are trading through ICICI Direct and they don’t have access to NSE”.
First lets review what an indexed mutual fund is. Indexed funds are an investment vehicle that aims to replicate movements of an index of a financial market such as NSE or BSE. For Indian investors that means a fund that will do as well or as poorly as the SENSEX or Nifty. These indexed funds will own all the securities of that index. So, for SENSEX index fund that means owning shares in all 30 companies that make up the index. Its usually a computer model that drives this fund not human stock picking. This also means lower management costs and fees because its mostly automated.
For the Indian market however the indices are fairly narrow so you dont actually get to capture the broad market, but a basket of stocks. (Editorial note: you would have done well though in the last 9 months!).
Here is a list of (maybe not complete) of Index funds that track the SENSEX:
1. HDFC funds
2. Franklin India BSE Sensex Fund & Nifty fund
4. LIC MF Index Fund SENSEX & Nifty
Over the past few years funds that tracked Nifty have had a better risk / reward return (beta) than those that tracked SENSEX, since the Sensex is more volatile, and most funds that track the Sensex dont do as good a job as those that do Nifty.
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2. HDFC
3. Fidelity
5. ABN Amro
6. AIG
9. Canara Bank
12. Deutsche Bank
13. Escorts Mutual
14. HSBC
15. ICICI Prudential
16. ING
17. JM Financial
18. JP Morgan
19. Kotak Mahindra
20. LIC
21. Lotus India
22. Morgan Stanley
23. Principal
24. Quantum
29. Tata
31. UTI
32. Benchmark Funds
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1. Trading Volume:
1984: US $3M / daily,
1994: US$100 Million,
2007: 8 Billion / daily ($6B in derivatives)
2. Assset Management Companies:
1994: 10, Total Funds ~ 100
2007: 32, Total Funds ~1000
3. Best Mutual fund companies in India
DSP Merrill Lynch
Fidelity Mutual Funds
Frankling Templeton Funds
HDFC Mutual Funds
Sundaram BNP Paribas Mutual Funds
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2. ANI
9. CNN IBN Live (Live Streaming of IBN)
10. India Times Economic Times
11. Personal FN
12. Equity Master
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1. Avatar
9. Atlantis Investment Management
10. Naissance Jaipur (India) Fund
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D&B India has a great report on the leading Equity brokerage firms in India. Over 394 firms are listed by Size, Total Terminals, Sub brokers, Total Employees, Branches, Cities of operation and Offerings. Some excerpts:
For the broking industry, we started with an initial database of over 1,800 broking firms that were contacted, from which 464 responses were received. The list was further short listed based on the number of terminals and the top 210 were selected for profiling. 394 responses, that provided more than 85% of the information sought have been included for this analysis presented here as insights. All the data for the study was collected through responses received directly from the broking firms. The insights have been arrived at through an analysis on various parameters, pertinent to the equity broking industry, such as region, terminal, market, branches, sub brokers, products and growth areas.
Some key characteristics of the sample 394 firms are:
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1. Almondz
4. PINC Research
10. CLSA
11. Morgan Stanley
13. Religare, Religare Securities and Religare Online
14. HDFC Securities
15. SSKI
16. ENAM Edelweiss Research
17. ICICI Securities
18. Pranav Securities
19. Sharekhan
20. KJMC
21. Karvy
22. Deutsche Bank
23. Prime Broking
24. Goldman Sachs
25. P-Securities
26. Angel Broking, Angel Trading
27. SSKI
28. Ambit Capital
29. Finquest Securities
30. UBS Investment
31. IDBI Capital
34. Bajaj Capital
35. Kotak Securities
36. Dolat Capital
37. UTI Securities
39. Enam Securities
40. ABN Amro
41. ASK Securities
42. Networth
45. HSBC
46. Anand Rathi
48. Niche Research
49. Antique Stock Broking
51. Man Financial
52. KR Choksey Research
54. SPA Research
55. SKP Securities
56. Keynote Capitals
57. Brics Securities
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30 companies make up the most watched index in India – the SENSEX (SENSitive IndEX). These are the largest capitalized companies.
Name | Sector |
ACC | Housing Related |
Ambuja Cements Ltd | Housing Related |
Bajaj Auto | Transport Equipments |
BHEL | Capital Goods |
Bharti Airtel | Telecom |
Cipla | Healthcare |
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories** | Healthcare |
Grasim Industries | Diversified |
HDFC | Finance |
HDFC Bank | Finance |
Hindalco Industries | Metal, Metal Products & Mining |
Hindustan Lever Limited | FMCG |
ICICI Bank | Finance |
Infosys | Information Technology |
ITC Limited | FMCG |
Larsen & Toubro | Capital Goods & Construction. |
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited | Transport Equipments |
Maruti Udyog | Transport Equipments |
NTPC | Power |
ONGC | Oil & Gas |
Ranbaxy Laboratories | Healthcare |
Reliance Communications | Telecom |
Reliance Energy | Power |
Reliance Industries | Oil & Gas |
Satyam Computer Services | Information Technology |
States Bank of India | Banking & Finance |
Tata Consultancy Services | Information Technology |
Tata Motors | Transport Equipments |
Tata Steel | Metal, Metal Products & Mining |
Wipro | Information Technology |
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National Stock Exchange (NSE) started trading in the equities segment (Capital Market segment) on November 3, 1994. There are 1,319 companies listed on NSE as of September 2007. List of most active stocks onthe NSE, is a who’s who list of Indian companies.
Rank | Name of the Security | Turnover (Rs. crore) |
% Share in Total Turnover |
Market Capitalisation as on 31.3.2007 (Rs. crore) |
% Share in Total Market Capitalisation |
1 | Reliance Industries Ltd. | 115726.62 | 5.95 | 190952.41 | 5.67 |
2 | Infosys Technologies Ltd. | 68436.53 | 3.52 | 113999.62 | 3.39 |
3 | Satyam Computer Services Ltd. | 49061.12 | 2.52 | 30968.90 | 0.92 |
4 | Tata Steel Ltd. | 48777.68 | 2.51 | 26100.96 | 0.78 |
5 | Reliance Communications Ltd. | 48128.60 | 2.47 | 86057.84 | 2.56 |
6 | Oil And Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. | 37617.77 | 1.93 | 188391.89 | 5.59 |
7 | State Bank Of India | 34177.36 | 1.76 | 52337.79 | 1.55 |
8 | Tata Motors Ltd. | 32929.28 | 1.69 | 28062.87 | 0.83 |
9 | Indiabulls Fin. Ser. Ltd. | 28234.31 | 1.45 | 7503.24 | 0.22 |
10 | ACC Ltd. | 28030.51 | 1.44 | 13771.70 | 0.41 |
11 | Tata Consultancy Serv Ltd. | 26848.24 | 1.38 | 120745.86 | 3.59 |
12 | ICICI Bank Ltd. | 26107.99 | 1.34 | 76378.67 | 2.27 |
13 | Larsen & Toubro Ltd. | 25908.66 | 1.33 | 45470.97 | 1.35 |
14 | ITC Ltd. | 25887.82 | 1.33 | 56866.00 | 1.69 |
15 | BHEL | 25577.16 | 1.31 | 55348.80 | 1.64 |
16 | Reliance Capital Ltd. | 25481.92 | 1.31 | 14965.43 | 0.44 |
17 | India Cements Ltd. | 24228.68 | 1.25 | 3568.95 | 0.11 |
18 | Century Textiles Ltd. | 23951.31 | 1.23 | 5076.11 | 0.15 |
19 | Sterlite Inds (Ind) Ltd. | 23373.31 | 1.20 | 26204.16 | 0.78 |
20 | Steel Authority Of India | 22665.94 | 1.17 | 47210.48 | 1.40 |
21 | Tech Mahindra Ltd. | 22415.65 | 1.15 | 16744.42 | 0.50 |
22 | Hindalco Industries Ltd. | 21066.59 | 1.08 | 16883.97 | 0.50 |
23 | Maruti Udyog Ltd. | 21065.20 | 1.08 | 23696.40 | 0.70 |
24 | IVRCL Infrast & Proj Ltd. | 20411.81 | 1.05 | 3792.62 | 0.11 |
25 | Suzlon Energy Ltd. | 19237.51 | 0.99 | 28819.64 | 0.86 |
26 | Hindustan Lever Ltd. | 19124.82 | 0.98 | 45284.19 | 1.34 |
27 | Siemens Ltd. | 18675.24 | 0.96 | 18387.03 | 0.55 |
28 | Mahindra Gesco Developers Ltd. | 18048.49 | 0.93 | 2106.36 | 0.06 |
29 | IFCI Ltd. | 17554.82 | 0.90 | 2145.95 | 0.06 |
30 | Zee Entertainment Ent Ltd. | 17535.18 | 0.90 | 10869.52 | 0.32 |
31 | Bombay Dyeing & Mfg. Co Ltd. | 17161.69 | 0.88 | 2089.56 | 0.06 |
32 | Bharti Airtel Ltd. | 16184.78 | 0.83 | 144825.39 | 4.30 |
33 | Bajaj Auto Ltd. | 16080.06 | 0.83 | 24563.31 | 0.73 |
34 | Unitech Ltd. | 15953.52 | 0.82 | 31448.83 | 0.93 |
35 | Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. | 15944.97 | 0.82 | 11465.55 | 0.34 |
36 | Gujarat Ambuja Cement Ltd. | 15751.39 | 0.81 | 16184.56 | 0.48 |
37 | HDFC Ltd. | 15044.80 | 0.77 | 38154.76 | 1.13 |
38 | Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. | 14514.50 | 0.75 | 19148.77 | 0.57 |
39 | Wipro Ltd. | 14495.60 | 0.75 | 80716.78 | 2.40 |
40 | Grasim Industries Ltd. | 13364.11 | 0.69 | 19186.38 | 0.57 |
41 | Jaiprakash Associates Ltd. | 13294.97 | 0.68 | 11821.40 | 0.35 |
42 | Ranbaxy Labs Ltd. | 12764.21 | 0.66 | 13118.09 | 0.39 |
43 | Hdfc Bank Ltd. | 12147.77 | 0.62 | 30168.75 | 0.90 |
44 | Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. | 12121.30 | 0.62 | 9245.25 | 0.27 |
45 | Indian Petrochemicals Cor. Ltd. | 10979.86 | 0.56 | 8143.03 | 0.24 |
46 | Dr. Reddy’S Laboratories Ltd. | 10953.06 | 0.56 | 12227.34 | 0.36 |
47 | Parsvnath Developer Ltd. | 10826.47 | 0.56 | 4783.63 | 0.14 |
48 | Bajaj Hindustan Ltd. | 10648.72 | 0.55 | 2757.44 | 0.08 |
49 | NTPC Ltd. | 10413.97 | 0.54 | 123888.10 | 3.68 |
50 | Sesa Goa Ltd. | 10068.95 | 0.52 | 6705.12 | 0.20 |
Total | 1,205,001 | 61.94 | 1,969,355 | 58.48 |
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Bombay Stock Exchange Limited is Asia’s oldest stock exchange. It carries within itself the depth of knowledge of capital markets acquired since its inception in 1875. Located in Mumbai, the financial capital of India, it has been the backbone of the country’s capital markets.
As of Sep 2007, there are 4871 companies listed on BSE. There are 1100 Foreign Institutional Investors registered with BSE.
There are several indices that measure BSE.
Stocks traded on the Exchange have been classified into ‘A’, ‘B1’, ‘B2′,’T’, ‘S’, ‘TS’ ‘F’ ,’G’ and ‘Z’ groups.
The Exchange has for the guidance and benefit of the investors have classified the scrips in the Equity Segment into ‘A’, ‘B1’, ‘B2′,’T’, ‘S’, ‘TS’ and ‘Z’ groups on certain qualitative and quantitative parameters which include number of trades, value traded, etc.
The “F” Group represents the Fixed Income Securities.
The “T” Group represents scrips which are settled on a trade to trade basis as a surveillance measure.
The “S” Group represent scrips forming part of the “ BSE-Indonext” segment .
The “TS” Group consist of scrips in the “ BSE-Indonext” segment which are settled on a trade to trade basis as a surveillance measure.
Trading in Govt. Securities for retail investors is done under “G” group.
The ‘Z’ group was introduced by the Exchange in July 1999 and includes the companies which have failed to comply with the listing requirements of the Exchange and/or have failed to resolve investor complaints or have not made the required arrangements with both the Depositories, viz., Central Depository Services (I) Ltd. (CDSL) and National Securities Depository Ltd. (NSDL) for dematerialization of their securities.
The Exchange also provides a facility to the market participants for on-line trading of odd-lot securities in physical form in ‘A’, ‘B1’, ‘B2′ ‘T’,’S’, ‘TS’ and ‘Z’ groups and Rights renunciations in all the groups of scrips in the Equity Segment.
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As of June 2007, there are over 4800 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and over 1200 companies listed on the National Stock Exchange.
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