Last month, during earning's season, the financial media and analyst community were up in arms over Tech Mahindra's alleged “aggressive accounting methods”. The issue overshadowed all others during the analyst's call, so much so, that Tech Mahindra's vice-chairman Vineet Nayyar... Read More.
Earlier this week, while at Terrapin's India Investment Summit 2010, I got a full dose of the learned views of fund managers,... Read More.
Market sentiment is fickle. Analysts and media seem compelled to manufacture reasons (post-facto) for why the market is going up or down. So one day the Nifty rises because FIIs feel that India is a great long term story. The... Read More.
In India, we have a habit of running to the government (or blaming them) every time something goes wrong. This is no doubt a result of our socialistic upbringing, a legacy most adult Indians find hard to shed – even... Read More.
The new year invariably brings out predictions from a variety of armchair critics, so why should I be different? After all, I'm actually sitting in my armchair right now! In an attempt to be different, I actually resisted the temptation initially,... Read More.
Recent outrage on the raw deal investors have got with Osian's art fund would be funny, if only many “innocents” hadn't got burnt. Talking about manias, this was surely one – or at least a micro-mania! The fund raised over... Read More.
Last week at the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) conference in Hyderabad, one was treated to intense and often heated debate on the future of newspapers. Putting this in context, newspapers have long been losing subscribers and advertisers to the... Read More.
Last week in London, at a conference titled Legal Process Outsourcing and Offshoring [http://www.sourcingnotes.com/content/view/580/1/], I had the unique opportunity to interact with senior lawyers representing both private practice and general counsel. And, as the day progressed, a few impressions congealed... Read More.
Stock exchanges exist because people like you and me buy and sell shares. And there are millions of us, who soldier on, despite corrupt managements, ineffectual regulators, scams, misinformation and much more. Whether trader or investor, it is we, the... Read More.
The last few months have seen some spectacular sums pouring into equity markets via IPOs. Especially power utility stocks. After Adani Power, we had NHPC and most recently, Indiabulls Power. While over-subscription is expected in an irrational bull phase (like... Read More.
