Forthcoming Indian IPOs – Jan-2007

Here is a list of IPOs that will hit the Indian Market in Jan-2007.

1 Cambridge Technology Enterprises Ltd
2 Autoline Industries Limited
3 Global Broadcast News Limited (CNN IBN)
4 House of Pearl Fashions Limited
5 Pochiraju Industries Limited
6 Akruti Nirman Limited
7 Technocraft Industries (India) Limited
8 Abhishek Mills Limited
9 Cinemax India Limited
10 Jas Toll Company Limited
11 Mudra Lifestyle Limited
12 Orbit Corporation Limited
13 Hilton Metal Forging Limited
14 SVP Industries Limited
15 Suryachakra Power Corporation Limited
16 Binani Cement Limited
17 Idea Cellular Limited
18 Power Finance Corporation Limited
19 Indian Bank
20 Vijayeswari Textiles Limited
21 First Source Solutions Limited

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Intime Spectrum the worst IPO Registrar

You all know by now that Intime Spectrum is the worst registrar in the Indian IPO market. Intime Spectrum never respond to any e-mails / fax and their phone lines are always busy.

Some small investor friendly person filed a petition against Intime Spectrum Ltd and has suspended all their activities by a ruling of Kolkatta High Court. Thank God, no more IPO issues to be handled by Intime Spectrum from now. Hopefully the SEBI will wake up now.

Troubled and Undersubscribed, Cairn India Ltd IPO is now handled by Big Share Registry India Ltd.

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Indian Mutual Fund Investors must get MIN

Indian Mutual Fund investors who invest more than Rs 50,000 in one go are now expected to get a MIN – Mutual Fund Identification Number without which he will not be able to invest from Jan-01-2007. Regulators want to know more about funds and investors under the “Know Your Customer – KYC” policy such that their is no illgeal channels of fund flows into the country.

A P Kurian, Chairman of AMFI explains the need for MIN in the following video,

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HSBC – Global Emerging Market Fund in India

HSBC Mutual Fund India has filed a draft offer document with SEBI for launching a new fund that will invest in emerging markets.

The significance of this fund is, it will not only invest in Indian Stocks but also stocks of other emerging markets such as Argentina, Brazil, Russia, China and East Europe. The fund will have both BSE 200 and MSCI Emerging Market Index as its benchmark.

One should invest some sum in this fund as well as you see India has been an underperformer in 2006 compared to China and India is also a very expensive emerging market at P/E of 18. In such situations, these funds will reduce exposure in India and move their money to other lucrative markets such as Brazil.

Stay Tuned, I’ll review the fund and post more views on it when it will be launched [ maybe Q1-2007].

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Merill Lynch Investment Update – BUY IndiaBulls

DSP Merill Lynch in its Investment update has put a BUY recommendation on IndiaBulls Financial Services Ltd. It has also revised the target for IndiaBulls to Rs 750.

The upward revision is mainly due to the rise in value of its Real Estate Holdings. The NAV of Real estate business is estimated at Rs423/share (FY08) by Merill Lynch, a 47% discount to KF’s value of Rs796/share principally owing to the difference in SEZ valuation. They have pegged SEZ valuations at the price paid by Farallon last month (Rs173/shr v/s RS496/shr done by KF) owing to uncertainty in SEZ policies and extended timeline of SEZ. Hence, SEZ valuations may remain muted at 0.5-1.0x NAV.

Merill Lynch is however, positive on the non-SEZ properties, where our value of Rs250/shr is just 13% lower than KF’s value largely owing to absence of any price escalations. These properties could trade up to 1.2-1.3x NAV.

IndiaBulls Financial Securities business is valued at 15-17x FY08E earnings as markets remain
buoyant. Consumer finance business valued at 1.5-1.8x FY08E book given the rapid rise in earnings and loan book.

Total value of real estate business valued at Rs337-498/share. Total ‘sum of parts’ valuation range at RS650-855/share, underpinning our PO of Rs750.

The record date of Demerger of IndiaBulls Financail Services Ltd and IndiaBulls Real Estate / properties is fixed at Jan-09-2007.

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