

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 overMonday 13 August '07
Looking beyond political, economic freedomSaturday
11 August '07I don’t want to waste time talking about how inefficient, ineffective and invalid the pre-liberalisation thinking on matters of economics...Saturday
4 August '07They 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...Friday
3 August '07Market volatility will stay. In India it’s tempered by investments in infrastructure and demographySaturday
28 July '07It’s getting increasingly difficult to write definitive stories on markets in a flat world of 24x7 trading activity.Saturday
28 July '07There 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...Saturday
21 July '07Ever since the category was created on January 16, 2002, I have never looked at Z-group companies.Thursday
19 July '07Religious one-upmanship, of the kind that was on display in the US Senate, is really a prayer to the god of extinctionMonday
16 July '07Or how religion is still crawling behind timesSaturday
14 July '07The results season has begun and the first signals are not encouraging.Thursday
12 July '07Finance 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.Saturday
7 July '07Fourteen CEOs of mutual funds. In one room. All dressed in the sharpest pin stripes — blue-grey and nothing else.Monday
2 July '07A religion that unites souls and still leaves spaceSaturday
30 June '07Wednesday
27 June '07A 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 wrongSaturday
23 June '07That ICICI Bank’s Rs 8,750 crore issue got subscribed in the first few minutes and at last count had an oversubscription of over...Saturday
23 June '07Why the neighbourhood uncleji selling financial products must be forced to function within a regulatory frameworkThursday
14 June '07The entry of DLF in the stock market will mark a shift in the way developers look at wealth creationSaturday
9 June '07Post-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...Friday
1 June '07Just 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...Thursday
10 May '07Led 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.Wednesday
2 May '07The first step towards old-age security has been taken — minus pension reformsSaturday
7 April '07At a time when a new, data-heavy report is released almost every day, this bunch of 22 reports is different on two counts.Wednesday
4 April '07Here’s a chance to find out who creates the chaos when we want to reform big