Gautam Chikermane

Call off the wild

As investors gravitate rapidly to market-sensitive instruments, there’s a growing need to regulate the work of financial planners

Tails of the unexpected

May 18/19 crash shows how unpredictable, risky and highly profitable markets are

Silver lining to cloud: good time to buy

Of course, the conclusion is neither straightforward nor unlayered. But it is directional, it is strategic, it is definitive.

Turning Property Into Profits

After productivity jumps in operations, finance and people it’s now time for property to follow

Killing death

The man lies sprawled out. Blood flows from his head, down the neck, turning his white shirt crimson.

Give us a smash, not a lob, Mr Damodaran

SEBI mustn’t pull punches as it gears up to regulate mutual fund distributors; having waited so long, it must move in with full force

Caste myopia

Occupational immobility and founding principles

Let’s all share

For Sebi’s sake, and for ours, its IPO scam order better be spot on

If we don’t meet our targets, there are huge liquid damages: Rao

‘We have 12 challenges before us, including the upgradation of terminal capacity and lowering dwell time of cargo to 24 hours by 2010’

Fasten your seat belts

Having transited, duty-freed, coffeed, magazined, escalated, trolleyed, parked, taxied in 19 airports across 15 countries, excluding India, I can say

Market and mayhem in Meerut

Wealth is spreading to small-town India. When will the sarkar wake up?

Today’s PEs, tomorrow’s profits

Numbers tell us that corporate profits this quarter will rise. The market seems to know this already

Driving a turnaround

It’s difficult to even imagine, leave alone believe, that the Indian Railways, a Rs 54,700 crore giant, lumbering since 1996, has turned around over t

On track

A Rs 54,700 crore giant can’t rise up and compete, get customer focussed, generate record-breaking surpluses. An organisation whose costs increase at

Birth and death

Does a foetus have ‘awareness’?

To save the girl child — invest

How about a chunky tax benefit if the money is transferred to the girl?

Interior furnishing

Doing up corporate interiors is not an easy job. And while those undertaking this task have to live with it, the bigger sufferers are the neighbours.

Where’ll the Sensex be tomorrow?

Nobody knows how the stock markets will behave. Look at value, not price, and build wealth