“India’s Most Promising Entrepreneurs”
Businessworld has a cover story that profiles the shortlisted five high-potential entrepreneurs (selected by a 4-member jury consisting of executives from GE, Philips, Intel and HCL Tech): 1. Shashin Mishra,…
Rural to the Rescue?
Business Today has a cover story on how marketers are hoping to tap the relatively buoyant rural economy for their companies’ growth. It’s probably this resilience that’s prompting companies such…
Roadblocks for PE investments in infrastructure?
In an article for Economic Times, Srivatsa Krishna makes a fervent case for freeing up hurdles in the way of Private Equity investments in India’s infrastructure sectors. The one possible…
Hedge Fund selling isn’t over yet?
Investors in hedge funds believe the industry will see even bigger withdrawals this year than 2008, according to new survey by Deutsche Bank. As if last year’s carnage wasn’t enough,…
Why is the dollar getting stronger?
At Venture Intelligence’s Annual Private Equity conference in February, a leading PE fund manager remarked how investors were now forced to pay more heed to currency movements than their portfolio…
New entrants in the BS 1000 listing
Business Standard has profiles of new entrants in its latest BS 1000 listing of companies. The new entrants include OnMobile Global, Page Industries, Indage Vintners, Educomp, Shriram EPC, Temptation Foods…
Is risk appetite “walking back” to the markets?
Kathleen Hughes, a manager of money market funds at JPMorgan Asset Management, has an interesting description for the change in risk appetite of investors: “Risk appetite leaves on a horse…
Business Today’s Hottest Start-ups List
Business Today’s has come out with the latest update to its annual listing of “Hottest Startups in India”. The list includes VC-backed companies like Inbiopro (backed by Accel India), Carnation…
Healthcare cos. to ride out the recession
Business Today has an article on how healthcare firms are planning to accelerate their growth plans – never mind the recession. “A slowdown is the best time for health care…
Belt tightening at BCCL
Contentsutra has an interesting package on the salary cuts at Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd (BCCL), India’s richest media company that publishes The Times of India and The Economic Times.…