Can RBI correct its mistake on interest rates?
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…
Why everyone is Twittering
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…
Floriculture: Wilting a bit
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…
Profile of Citi’s Vikram “Boy with the Golden Touch” Pandit
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,…
Wall Street Meltdown – Part 2
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…
“Foreign investors to react to new govt’s moves”
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…
Capvent China-India Private Equity Summit 2009
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…
How Harvard tripped on its investments
Forbes has an interesting article on the performance of Harvard Management Co., the subsidiary that invests the institution’s money. Desperate for cash, Harvard Management went to outside money managers begging…
Videos from The Deal’s Distressed Investing Conference
The Deal has an interesting set of videos from its recently organized Distressed Investing Conference in Las Vegas here. Here is a sample featuring Michael Heisley of The Heico Companies…
Abu Dhabi replacing Dubai?
The NYT DealBook has an interesting post on how Abu Dhabi is making bold moves formerly associated with fellow Emirate Dubai. Twin deals initiated out of Abu Dhabi on Monday…