Bumper harvest: 13 IPO issues swelled up to 100% during 2015

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Bumper harvest: 13 IPO issues swelled up to 100% during 2015 13 of 20 primary market listings of calendar 2015 offered returns up to 100% in what could be termed as the best year for IPO mart since 2010. Outlook hazy for debt products in 2016, duration funds best bet The rate cut cycle did begin and the central bank did cut interest rates by a cumulative 125 basis points during the year. Why just policies, buy insurance shares too in 2016 Many believe SBI Life may trump HDFC Life in hitting the market with an IPO as they have already hired insurance actuarial consultants. How may investors gain from state bond sales? The maxim "falling interest means lower interest income" may not be true every time as excess supply of securities could well turn calculations in favour of long term institutional investors, at least. Fixed income schemes better equity funds' returns in 2015 Data show that during the year, ultra short-term, short-term, liquid funds and fixed maturity plans (FMPs) topped in returns, generating in excess of 8%. Tax free bonds outperform equities, strong performance to continue There will be periods when other investment products generate better return than equity and the same is now happening with tax-free bonds. For India IPOs, 2016 promises to be best year in 6 on profit growth, reforms Indian IPOs are set to raise more than $5 billion in 2016, a six-year high, as corporate profit growth and a pickup in the economy drive investor demand for equities and lure firms such as Vodafone's local unit to list. Remain stock-specific in 2016, 10 bets of domestic brokerages Sensex is down about 4,000 points from its record high of 30,025 hit in March, but Calendar 2016 promises to be better for Indian investors. Astrology says 2016 will be good year for stocks, but bad for gold Last year, we had predicted that calendar 2015 would not be a great year for stock investors. And the S&P BSE Sensex is closing the year a little over 5 per cent down. Retail investors to be able to invest online in direct plans of mutual funds from January 1 While most of the high net worth individual and corporate investors have already shifted to direct plans, retail investors were stuck because of the logistics issues.

Initial Public Offer (IPOs) IPO Name Offer Price Band Open Date Close Date   Fourth Dimension Solutions Ltd. 30.00 30-12-2015 07-01-2016 More >>

NFO (FMPs) Fund Name Category Type Open Close Min Inv   Religare Invesco FMP Series 27 Plan B Reg-D Debt: FMP Closed-end 21 Dec 2015 04 Jan 2016 5,000 Religare Invesco FMP Series 27 Plan B Reg-G Debt: FMP Closed-end 21 Dec 2015 04 Jan 2016 5,000 Religare Invesco FMP Series 27 Plan B Direct-D Debt: FMP Closed-end 21 Dec 2015 04 Jan 2016 5,000 Religare Invesco FMP Series 27 Plan B Direct-G Debt: FMP Closed-end 21 Dec 2015 04 Jan 2016 5,000 DSPBR FMP Ser 192-36M Direct-G Debt: FMP Closed-end 24 Dec 2015 07 Jan 2016 5,000 More >>

Real Estate News

Should you buy a house or stay on rent? Till about 2012-13, when the rate of interest was high and tax sops were lower - which led to higher mortgage yield of 7-8% compared to 3% rent yield - people still bought real estate because they were enjoying 10-12% annual appreciation in the price of the house.

Flashback 2015: 10 most read residential and bungalow deals The year witnessed some of the biggest apartment and bungalow deals in the history of Indian real estate. Vaccine king Cyrus Poonawalla pipped many top industrialists to bag Mumbai's iconic Lincoln House on Breach Candy for Rs 750 crore.

Property market in Bengaluru hit by slow job creation A recent Bloomberg poll of over 50 IT analysts says that IT services companies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL will struggle to reach double-digit growth. This will be the slowest pace of growth for IT service behemoth since the global financial slowdown following the 2008 Lehman Brothers crisis.

Realty hotspots: Get up to 94% price appreciation in 5 years by investing here New Gurgaon is ranked as the eighth most attractive destination, promising a price appreciation of 47% by 2020, followed by Golf Course Extension in Gurgaon at 42% and Puppalguda-Narsingi in Hyderabad at 41%.

NFO - Non FMPs Fund Name Category Type Open Close Min Inv   Sundaram Long Term Tax Advantage Sr II Direct-G Equity: Tax Planning Closed-end 03 Nov 2015 15 Mar 2016 500 Sundaram Long Term Tax Advantage Sr II Direct-D Equity: Tax Planning Closed-end 03 Nov 2015 15 Mar 2016 500 Sundaram Long Term Tax Advantage Sr II Reg-G Equity: Tax Planning Closed-end 03 Nov 2015 15 Mar 2016 500 Sundaram Long Term Tax Advantage Sr II Reg-D Equity: Tax Planning Closed-end 03 Nov 2015 15 Mar 2016 500 UTI Long Term Advantage Fund Series III Reg-D Equity: Tax Planning Closed-end 18 Dec 2015 22 Mar 2016 500 More >>

Views and Recommendations

Market indecisive, may rally in January: Dr CK Narayan 31 December, 2015, 04:17 PM IST I think going by the evidence, I do not see any reason why it should resolve to the downside unless something happens on the global front. Breakout beyond 7,960 can take Nifty50 above 8,100: Mitesh Thacker 31 December, 2015, 04:07 PM IST See, I think I would have wanted the markets to finally give a breakout on the expiry day beyond 7,950-7,960. Secular prediction for pharma space difficult, Cadila's correction not a surprise: P Phani Sekhar 31 December, 2015, 03:48 PM IST Well, this is something that did not really come as a surprise to us. Well, this is something that did not really come as a surprise to us. InterGlobe Aviation best bet in aviation, can rally up to 20% in 6 months: P Phani Sekhar 31 December, 2015, 03:40 PM IST Well, yes. Aviation has a lot of things going for itself: one, is the seasonality factor, second, oil is trading at $36 per barrel.

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