Gautam Chikermane
Even as the reverberations of the financial earthquake that hit the financial markets on July 26 are still rattling the retirement plans of millions t
Looking beyond political, economic freedom
I don’t want to waste time talking about how inefficient, ineffective and invalid the pre-liberalisation thinking on matters of economics...
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.
Market volatility will stay. In India it’s tempered by investments in infrastructure and demography
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 commi
It’s getting increasingly difficult to write definitive stories on markets in a flat world of 24x7 trading activity.
Ever since the category was created on January 16, 2002, I have never looked at Z-group companies.
Religious one-upmanship, of the kind that was on display in the US Senate, is really a prayer to the god of extinction
Or how religion is still crawling behind times
The results season has begun and the first signals are not encouraging.
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram launched the National Housing Bank Index on Tuesday, which is India’s first housing price index to collect data and tr
Fourteen CEOs of mutual funds. In one room. All dressed in the sharpest pin stripes — blue-grey and nothing else.
A religion that unites souls and still leaves space
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 whis
Why the neighbourhood uncleji selling financial products must be forced to function within a regulatory framework
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...
The entry of DLF in the stock market will mark a shift in the way developers look at wealth creation
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...
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 ye
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
The first step towards old-age security has been taken — minus pension reforms
Here’s a chance to find out who creates the chaos when we want to reform big
You must meet him, a follower advised me. “He’s doing great work — and I’m part of that great work.
