Saturday, January 5, 2008

Google


Google Presentation


From: guesta599e2, 16 hours ago








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Interesting..


Shift Happens


From: jbrenman, 9 months ago





This is a stylization of a slideshow originally created by Karl Fisch, examining globalization and America’s future in the 21st century. It is designed to stand alone, without having to be presented in person. Enjoy!


Link: SlideShare Link

Friday, January 4, 2008

Kotak Mutual Funds with Life Insurance Cover (Kotak Star Kid)

Kotak innovatively launch new fund called Kotak Star Kid Facility in SIP. This facility will avail the investors’ a Life Insurance Cover currently this This facility is applicable for two schemes of Kotak Mutual Funds Kotak -30 and Kotak Tax Saver. The age criteria to Avail Kotak Star Kid Facility is Minimum Age of Entry - 23 yrs and Maximum Age of Entry - 45 yrs Insurance cover upto – 50 yrs the Term – 5, 10, 15 & 20 yrs (60 months, 120 months, 180 months, 240 months)

Age Tenure
23-30 5,10,15,20
31-35 5,10,15
36-40 5,10
41-45 5
above 45 Not eligible

Minimum SIP Amount: 1000/-

Formula for calculation of Life Insurance Cover
E.g. Amount 5000

5 years (60 months)
60 -12 months X 5000 = 240000

10 yrs (120 mnths)
120-12 X 5000 = 540000

15 yrs (180 mnths)
180 - 12 X 5000 = 840000

20 yrs ( 240 mnths)
240 - 12 X 5000 = 11,40,000

Life insured could be father or mother. Nominee compulsorily would be child only (major or minor).
Features for the Life Insurance cover in Kotak Star Kid Facility are as Follows:
• First month of SIP no insurance cover
• First 3 months only accidental death will be covered
• First 12 months, if death happens 10 times of SIP amount will be paid to the nominee as insurance + total net asset value of SIP paid till date.
• After 12 months if death occurs nominee will get remaining unpaid sip of the tenure + total net asset value of SIP paid till date.
• Medical Test Compulsory above 10 lac cover.
• Maximum cover: 1 core
• Insurance cover will be in reducing manner
Load Structure for the Kotak Star Kid Facility
• Entry Load : 3.25%
• Exit Load : 2% till 2 years
• : 1% after 2 years till 5 years
• SIP in Tax saver will be subject to a 3 years lock-in as per SEBI Regulation

Thursday, January 3, 2008

SharePoint Excellent tutorials (Video)

Robert provide... Freely downloadable workshop series, He demonstrate how to build a Document Workflow with Custom ASP.NET Forms and many more Excellent tutorials to view click here

Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Recently founded this very interesting article that discusses how to do development in the SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Environment from a team perspective.

Looks interesting as I've never seen anyone approach team-based development from a SharePoint perspective.



For more information, Please visit http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428899.aspx

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support

One of the cool new features is something we call "ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support". In a nutshell this enables you to really quickly build data driven web-sites that work against a LINQ to SQL (and in the future LINQ to Entities) object model - and optionally allows you to-do this without having to build any pages manually.

The best way to see this in action is to watch David Ebbo's awesome 17 minute screen-cast:

For more info. : ScottGu's

CNBC-TV18 poll

The last question of the poll - How much money will the fund house raise in 2008?

About 75% fund houses polled that they will raise more than 50% of the money raised in 2007 and 12.5% fund houses of total polled said that they will garnered 25%-50% more money that in 2007. The balance will raise 10%-25% more than in 2007.

Mutual Fund Poll Questionnaire and Answers

1) Market is
Fairly Valued: 82%
Over valued: 18%
Undervalued: Nil

2) What is year-end Sensex target?
20-22K: 55%
22-24K: 33%
Above 24: 12%
18-20K: NA
Below 18K: NA

3) Which stocks will the fund prefer under current circumstances?
Midcap: 33%
Index Stocks: 28%
Non-Index large cap: 22%
Small-cap: 17%

4) Sector views
Most Bullish Sector: Banks, Ferrous Metal & Constrcution
Neutral: IT, Sugar, Cement
Bearish to Neutral: Power, Telecom, Pharma

5) Which funds will do better?
Equity Diversified: 80%
Sector Specific: 10%
Thematic Funds: 10%

6) How much money will the fund houses raise in 2008?
More than 50% 2007: 75%
25%-50% more than in 2007: 12.5%
10%-25% more than in 2007: 12.5%
10%-25% more than in 2007: NA
Less than 2007: NA


For more info. Read from Paisa Power