Stephen Schwarzmann profile in New Yorker
The New Yorker has a lengthy profile of Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chairman and chief executive of the Blackstone Group. Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence,…
Impact of the IPO pullouts
Here are the takes of two market observers on the pulling of the Wockhardt Hospitals and Emaar-MGF IPOs this week. Arun Uday of HSBC PE points to the role of…
US buyouts will bounce back in 6-9 months: David Rubenstein
Extracts from Knowledge@Wharton synopsis of the Carlye Group founder’s recent speech. According to Rubenstein, the 1970s and 1980s were the “Bronze Age” of private equity, when early buyout deals emerged,…
Sovereign Funds: The BusinessWeek take
Extracts from BusinessWeek’s article on the favorite business/market topic these days: Sovereign Funds The fund managers insist that Western businessmen and politicians have nothing to fear. Al Sa’ad ticks off…
Why Real Estate firms are bidding to become telcos
Businessworld has an interview with Unitech’s Managing Director Sanjay Chandra on this topic. Q: In a sense, telecom is just like the real-estate business. You are capturing a fixed commodity…
Sequoia, UTI Ventures and ChrysCapital win APEX Awards
Sequoia Capital India, UTI Ventures and ChrysCapital emerged as the leading Private Equity/Venture Capital firms in various categories at the Second Edition of the Venture Intelligence APEX Awards. While ChrysCapital…
Can the Nano make a dent in the long term?
In an interview on the global auto industry to Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton management professors John Paul MacDuffie and Mauro Guillen, have struck quite a pessimistic note on how “big big” Tata…
Year of the Pause?
Businessworld has featured an article by Rashesh Shah, CEO of investment bank Edelweiss Capital on his predictions for 2008. A tale of two currencies: the dollar and the rupee. From…
The opportunity in Financial Products distribution
Business Today has an article on the opportunities in distribution of financial products. Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of information and networking…