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.…
Recession Proof Businesses?
Business Today has a cover story profiling publicly-listed companies that are doing fine despite the economic recession. The listing includes some large cap companies like Bharti Airtel, Hero Honda and…
New Drug Discovery Cos. Making a Mark
Businessworld has an article on a new crop of drug discovery companies – most of whom are Private Equity-backed – that are promising to represent the version 2.0 of the…
Interview with CEO of B2B Internet firm IndiaMart
MediaNama has an interview with B2B Internet firm IndiaMart’s CEO Dinesh Agarwal. I think the latter part of the upturn affected us more than the downturn. We were highly cashflow…
Will commodities spike again?
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…
Telecom Towers: A bit shaky?
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…
Why did Sony Entertainment Television’s CEO quit?
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…