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SPECIAL: THE WEEK OF SCAMS   SEBI scores big with Sahara After the landmark verdict by the apex court, Subrata Roy-led Sahara Group has come out with full page ads in various newspapers. This is childishness and only underlines the dangers of allowing this group to keep expanding without regulatory checks and balances... * Supreme Court's Sahara ruling: Salute to the judges, but a huge question mark before financial regulators *SC asks Sahara group to refund Rs17,400 crore to investors in three months *Vedanta gave 'illegal' political donations in India? *The big lie about King Long AC buses that actually are made in Punjab *Parliament paralysed for 8th day on coal block issue *Sahai defends letter to PM on coal block allocation *Corruption: A challenge for managers     TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK   Expense Ratio: Questionable practices of mutual funds Recently, the Securities & Exchange Board of India allowed fund companies to charge more to investors through a convoluted formula. The practices of fund companies, anyways, were to charge more, not less because investors are usually blind to fund charges, being focused more on returns... *BSE to enter capital markets by March next year *IRDA's senior citizen initiatives: On the track or off it? *Will investors sue Tulip Telecom? *Kasab's mercy petition: Who will take the call, President or Home Minister? *Judiciary snubs bulky, vague information asked under RTI *NDTV Vs WPP: Defamation suit against Sir Martin Sorrel by NDTV's law firm     SPECIAL: THE ELECTION GAMES BY SANDEEP KHURANA   Election Games: Biting the bullet of the ballot – 2 Greedy pursuit of seats—crime, caste, religion, money power... *Crime & Money: Biting the bullet of the ballot-3   EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS   Investor protection: Complex protection R Balakrishnan Stimulus: Does it actually work?- William Gamble Cruising in the mountains Veeresh Malik ADVT MARKETS/REGULATION   *Weekly Market Report: Decline to continue Higher high, lower low on the Nifty may change the trend... *Weekly Nifty View: US Fed trying to talk up the market but will it oblige? *Brace for a correction in the stock market, warns BNP Paribas *SAT asks SEBI to pass final orders within two weeks in IPO cases *FII inflow is not strongly correlated to Sensex returns in the short run   BOOKS: THE LOVE OF THE PRINTED WORD   Hedge Fund Market Wizards Jack D Schwager Getting Started in Currency Trading Michael Duane Archer Risk Less and Prosper Zvi Bodie and Rachelle Taqqu COMPANIES & SECTORS   Coal India should develop and expand in India rather than venture outside! Instead of chasing the rainbow and coal abroad, CIL would do well to persuade the environment ministry for expeditious clearance of a few out of the 45 pending cases and endeavour to comply with as many conditions that have hindered the progress... *ONGC has to show some results—faster! *Underlying performance continues to be strong in consumer stocks, says Nomura *Attention needed for Oilseeds & Pulses Development Corporation? *Underlying demand in the Indian automobile sector remains weak, says Nomura *Consumer demand continues to be strong says Nomura *Power grid failure: How to prevent it from happening *Not much joy in spectrum auctions guidelines, says Nomura     INVESTING/MUTUAL FUNDS/LEARNING   L&T shareholders would gain from spinoffs More than three years ago, L&T CMD AM Naik had assured the media that the company has plans to unlock value for its shareholders by spinning off many of its operations into independent companies. However, nothing has really happened since then. Spinoffs would be of great benefit to shareholders... *JSW Ispat's merger with JSW Steel will be negative, says Nomura   PERSONAL FINANCE/INSURANCE/CONSUMER INTEREST   Moneylife Insurance seminar: Personal Accident, Life, Health, Car, Travel & Home cover simplified Moneylife Foundation held an exclusive, in-depth session addressed by Raj Pradhan, where he explained in detail what to look for in the different kinds of insurance covers we need... *Real Estate Malpractices: Home-buyer at the mercy *Get your car insured through mobile phone *Accident Compensation: Unfair deal *HDFC Invest Wise: One more ULIP *Now, online personal loans from Bajaj Finserv   ECONOMY & NATION   Rural India consumption growth outpaces urban areas: CRISIL Given the large size of India's rural population, the value of goods and services consumed has always been greater in rural India, but urban India had narrowed the differential during most of the last decade by growing at a faster pace ... *India's GDP growth marginally higher in June quarter, says Nomura *Farm subsidies should go to make farmers self-sufficient in the long run *Tariff revisions for PPA projects possible, finds Nomura   MONEY & BANKING   India's 'boring' banking system remains robust: Deepak Parekh Greed has trampled over trust, respect and legality, the HDFC chairman said, while recalling a new word coined recently, 'Banksters' -- implying that bankers were ready to dethrone gangsters with their despicable behaviour ... *Cash Reserve Ratio: A non-performing asset for banks? *Open letter to RBI governor D Subbarao *Gen-Y sees totally cashless shopping coming, says survey *Higher money supply growth points to a positive revenue growth: Morgan Stanley     WELLNESS   Health is not all physical When the mind becomes tranquil, the body becomes healthy and happy ...   PUBLIC INTEREST   Death takes a policy: We answer questions from readers The story of Joseph Caramadre moved dozens of ProPublica readers to debate the ethics of insurance and corporate behaviour ... *More than 300 lawyers, activists and law students converge at Indore *Air India reinstating "sacked pilots" *Was it too early to say IMD is off the mark? *US presidential elections: Gender wars *SC upholds death sentence of 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab   TROTTER NAMA: THE WORLD AROUND US   Along the silk road: Khiva, bukhara and samarkand Jaideep Mukherjee takes a trip along Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand—the Silk Road cities that played a big role in the 19th century... .   To subscribe to this free newsletter log on to www.moneylife.in or email us at newsletter@moneylife.in To get FREE updates via sms click here.

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