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Repricing of risk is a fig leaf. Or how the suits ravaged the financial markets — yet again

Saturday 18 August '07

Even as the reverberations of the financial earthquake that hit the financial markets on July 26 are still rattling the retirement plans of millions the world over
Towards a new Swarajya

Monday 13 August '07

Looking beyond political, economic freedom
Six decades later, it’s time to celebrate Financial Freedom Day

Saturday 11 August '07

I don’t want to waste time talking about how inefficient, ineffective and invalid the pre-liberalisation thinking on matters of economics...
How I got the girl, her money and learnt to invest in stocks

Saturday 4 August '07

They weren’t easy times, but armed with a degree, a pair of Bermuda shorts and oodles of enthusiasm, I joined the workforce around the time when Sebi...
Up, through highs and lows

Friday 3 August '07

Market volatility will stay. In India it’s tempered by investments in infrastructure and demography
Why Friday’s 540-pt fall won’t hurt much

Saturday 28 July '07

It’s getting increasingly difficult to write definitive stories on markets in a flat world of 24x7 trading activity.
The agent may be mis-selling but why has IRDA allowed such an incentive structure?

Saturday 28 July '07

There seems to be only one direction the insurance industry is headed: Down. Every other day we hear stories about how, in the pursuit of higher commissions...
What’s a company like NMDC doing in a category like Z-group?

Saturday 21 July '07

Ever since the category was created on January 16, 2002, I have never looked at Z-group companies.
Our gods, their gods

Thursday 19 July '07

Religious one-upmanship, of the kind that was on display in the US Senate, is really a prayer to the god of extinction
New world’s new faith

Monday 16 July '07

Or how religion is still crawling behind times
Sensex is hungry but it needs to look beyond earnings to feed itself

Saturday 14 July '07

The results season has begun and the first signals are not encouraging.
Home truth index

Thursday 12 July '07

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram launched the National Housing Bank Index on Tuesday, which is India’s first housing price index to collect data and track fluctuations in the property market.
This circular is going to kill mutual funds. Really?

Saturday 7 July '07

Fourteen CEOs of mutual funds. In one room. All dressed in the sharpest pin stripes — blue-grey and nothing else.
Spiritual partnership

Monday 2 July '07

A religion that unites souls and still leaves space
PSB hijack and other stories

Wednesday 27 June '07

A trustee of millions of households, managing more than Rs 17,000 crore of deposits, is in the middle of a skirmish where the chairman has turned whistleblower — the first such instance. Ironically, it is independent directors who are expected to blow the whistle against the management. In this case they have — but with their facts and intent all wrong
Don’t say the Indian markets are not ‘deep’ enough

Saturday 23 June '07

That ICICI Bank’s Rs 8,750 crore issue got subscribed in the first few minutes and at last count had an oversubscription of over...
Regulate, before the big swindle

Saturday 23 June '07

Why the neighbourhood uncleji selling financial products must be forced to function within a regulatory framework
Cheques and IPOs

Thursday 14 June '07

The entry of DLF in the stock market will mark a shift in the way developers look at wealth creation
Is India’s largest IPO going to change the Sensex stakes?

Saturday 9 June '07

Post-issue, the DLF stock is by all indications, set to join the Sensex. Its cousin Unitech (trading around Rs 550), is unlikely to be left behind...
Not an elitist growth this, there are beneficiaries galore

Friday 1 June '07

Just 60 basis points short of the 10 per cent mark, the Indian growth juggernaut, at 9.4 per cent in 2006-07 compared to 9 per cent in the previous year, refuses to even pause...
Growth in Indian MFs among fastest in world

Thursday 10 May '07

Led by a rising equity market and matching investor interest, growth of the Indian mutual funds industry, which recently crossed the Rs 350,000-crore mark, is among the fastest in the world.
Here’s what Rs 50 can buy

Wednesday 2 May '07

The first step towards old-age security has been taken — minus pension reforms
State of States

Saturday 7 April '07

At a time when a new, data-heavy report is released almost every day, this bunch of 22 reports is different on two counts.
Whodunnit Mistry

Wednesday 4 April '07

Here’s a chance to find out who creates the chaos when we want to reform big
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