Transcript of the Ganesh Natarajan chat on rediff on Friday.
In 2015, foreign investors slowed net buying of Indian equities.
Less than 50 per cent respondents admit that their company has sufficient security controls, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.
ICICI Bank and SBI were among the top Sensex gainers along with FMCG majors ITC and HUL.
The reason for the windfall: the soaring value of their stock awards.
Balanced funds may be a good option for first-time investors.
While stocks are at cheap valuations, the volatility can be unnerving.
As many as 11,500 startups would come up in the country employing over 2,50,000 people by 2020, according to key findings of India Start-up Report 2014 of industry body Nasscom.
Experts believe volatility is here to stay for some time, at least till China stabilises and clarity regarding the US Fed's interest rate move emerges.
Stocks of companies having operations and exports to Europe were the top losers.
Indian companies seem to be trailing behind. They will have to catch up by reskilling the workforce and ramping up investments.
Metal shares were the top gainers with Hindalco up over 5%.
It may not be an exaggeration to say that in the next three years, in India itself a million jobs or more might be at risk due to automation. How we leverage its benefits will determine our fate in the digital era.
Sanjay Jalona, CEO & MD of LTI says the push would be to increase digital business and look at outcomes in projects for customers.
According to technical analysts, the Nifty could trade in the range between 7,400 and 7,700.
Wiping off nearly Rs 4 lakh crore of investors' wealth during the day, benchmark Sensex crashed on Friday.
To merge arms, sell stake in combined entity to CIE for Rs 770 cr; to use proceeds to buy 13.5% in Spanish firm for Rs 740 cr
Insurance firms have designed amazing retirment plans to lure more customers.
The Powerwall 'will be great for India where there is a scarcity of electricity. The sun is there pretty much all day and there is no real good way to store its energy,' Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan tells Ritu Jha/Rediff.com.
'To ensure you remain with the better performers, you need to consistently monitor your MF portfolios and weed out the non-performers, even if they are from a star fund manager or a fund house with a sound record.'
Balanced funds are suitable for investors who have low-risk appetite or are new to equities.Those with more than seven-year investment horizon should look at funds that have higher equity exposure.
A 'timing plus SIP' method could match the commitment of x in ordinary months and commit say, 2x or 3x in months where there has been a big correction.
With the world getting more and more instrumented with smart devices, global enterprises are increasingly looking at undertaking a 'digital transformation' journey to stay ahead in the race. Emerging technologies such as social, mobility, analytics and cloud have given birth to new business opportunities and forcing enterprises to finetune their IT buying decisions -- quite differently from what they used to do.
Govt wants to up investment in Railways
S Naren, CIO of ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, in an interview with Chandan Kishore Kant, says cyclicals will offer good value.
Theoretically, there is an inverse relationship, but other factors need to fall in place for it to work well this time
'If you look at voice and data realisations in India, they are the lowest in the world.'
No one can fault India Inc for not taking care of shareholders; in fact, it has been extra generous.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was on Saturday arrested by the National Investigation Agency Hyderabad in connection with the February 2013 Dilsukhnagar blast case after a Delhi court allowed its plea and granted the probe agency his two-day remand.
Markets have witnessed a gap down opening mirroring losses in the global equities with US markets taking a hit on worries about the health of Chinese economy.
'He is the man,' US President Barack Obama had said at a G-20 gathering, enhancing Lula's stature. Six years later, has Brazil's impressive economic growth turned to sand? Will a President, who enjoyed an 80 per cent approval rate in his country, be arrested? Ambassador B S Prakash, India's former envoy to Brazil, explains what has gone wrong in one of India's BRICS partner nations.
Sensex witnessed the biggest single day gain since May 2009 in absolute terms.
New offerings by banks are changing the way you transact.
The fund industry may have embraced machines and robots, but managing money still needs the human touch
The event, organised by Deutsche Messe AG, is held each year at the Hanover fairground, the world's largest, in Hanover, Germany.
'Will people who buy iPhones stop buying iPhones to help swadeshi models?' 'There should be some advantage for the consumer to make them buy a Made in India product.' 'Patriotism and nationalism are good words, but in business, it won't work.'
Money is being released and the government knows it will have to front-run private investment.
Workers' outfits staged a rally outside the Indian Consulate in New York to show support for Sangeeta Richard, whose allegations of low wages and exploitation led to the Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. George Joseph reports
Should you expect 15 per cent return over a period of 20 years? Dwaipayan Bose has the answer
Single window clearances for realty must.
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