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Hello,

My son (minor, 5 yr old) is US Citizen and he has a PIO card. He has been residing in India for last 15 months along with us [My family relocated back to India in Oct 2006]. Can we open a PPF account in India in his name?

thanks,
Nagari

RRK, I was looking for Fund of Funds in India such as we invested back in US -- Vanguard STAR. So far I have found the following: [URL]http://www.franklintempletonindia.com/GeneralAccess/Mfs/FTLF.asp[/URL] [URL]http://www.franklintempletonindia.com/GeneralAccess/Mfs/FTDPEF.asp[/URL] This is not ...

Hi RRK,

Please ask him why we should invest in ICICI compared to that in IndiaREIT or any other competition.

thanks,
Nagari

Pros and cons about PruREIT and IndiaREIT [my ABN rep who sells both has informed me about pruICICI and contrasted as below]. He says IndiaREIT is still available by tomorrow while pruICICI has to be bought by Friday [Aug 24] [the way they keep postponing, I am not sure if the deadlines are real ...

#7, I left you a private message. BTW, there is a good article on moneycontrol about a possible melt-down (of softening) in RE sector. [url]http://news.moneycontrol.com/india/news/budget-columns/great-indian-real-estate-storywhat-went-wrong/12/15/289511[/url] It has views/opinions by developers ...

#5, OB1, This investment consultant is from ABN Amro investment. He says that thus far this REIT is much better than earlier floated REIT funds -- HDFC Kotak, Reliance and earlier REITs from Piramal group itself -- in terms of visibility of investment(according to him, this is the first time an REIT ...

thanks RRK for your response.

Although I keep hearing that SEBI is thinking to have a regulation that would make Indian REIT ETFs, it's just a speculation.

thanks,
nagari

Bumping my request -- if any one has any comments to add, please post your comments.

thanks,
Nagari

One of the investment consultant in my bank is proposing me to invest [min of 25L = 10L in this week, 15L in next 6-18 months] in Paramal groups REIT: [url]http://www.indiareit.com/html/index.html[/url] Meghraj group would be their valuation consultant and the scheme (Indo/British meaning of scheme ...

I R2I'ed. I was NRI until Mar'07 and hence was able to do it in India after I R2I'ed.

thanks,
Nagari