Year: 2009

In his column for the Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma argues why it would take a long time for the commodities ‘super cycle’ to revive. Expectations of ever rising oil prices…

Businessworld has an article on the economics of independent tower companies. Tower companies are now discovering that higher valuations, lower rentals and poor tenancy ratios could stretch payback periods up…

Businessworld has a cover story on the corporate battle that resulted in Kunal Dasgupta, the CEO of Multi Screen Media (formerly Sony Entertainment Television), quitting just a few months before…

It was interesting to see the Reserve Bank of India’s tripping up on interest rates featuring in this video of a lecture by Harvard Economics Professor Martin Feldstein on the…

Here’s what a venture capitalist at one of the firms that invested $35 million recently in non-revenue generating Internet & mobile app firm Twitter told The Deal. “Most people don’t…

Business Today has an article on how the recession in the West is taking a toll on the Indian floriculture industry. But for the Indian floriculture exporters, the party was…

New York magazine has a longish profile of Citi CEO Virkam Pandit titled “The Most Powerless Powerful Man on Wall Street”. The article traces his career including via Morgan Stanley,…

Here’s the follow up to the funny video titled “Wall Street Meltdown” – set to the soundtrack borrowed from Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. You could see Part…

In his column for Business Standard, Akash Prakash points why the new govt’s moves, post election, would be a key determinant of foreign fund flows into the Indian market. We…

ADVERTISEMENT CAPVENT (www.capvent.com), a global Fund of Funds organization and an active investor in China and India is organizing its 2nd Annual China-India Private Equity Summit in Goa from April…