'Whoever owns the best chip industry will be the Saudi Arabia of the era of data,' predicts Rajeev Srinivasan.
Twenty years after India's insurance sector was opened up, unshackling the control of state-owned companies, as many as 50 private players have set up shop. Along with their foreign partners, private players have brought about a sea change in the product offering, distribution and underwriting processes, and services levels. Yet, India's insurance penetration needle has not moved much.
'The Reserve Bank's independence has remained a work in progress, an enduring challenge that the nation has been grappling with on an ongoing basis,' says RBI Deputy Governor Dr Viral Acharya.
'To ensure you remain with the better performers, you need to consistently monitor your MF portfolios and weed out the non-performers, even if they are from a star fund manager or a fund house with a sound record.'
While the US is definitely recovering, Europe, Japan and, now, China are all going through another wave of what some fear could be a multi-year slowdown.
The idiosyncratic aspect of India's macroeconomic challenge is the stubbornly high retail -- especially core -- inflation, despite the collapse in economic growth.
Here is the entire text of the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's Budget Speech:
As uncertainties prevail and a revival expected only post second quarter of 2009, it will pay to focus on large cap companies with a proven track record, high earnings visibility and low leverage.
The predictions that Gartner has made for the year 2008 focus on general technology areas rather than on specific industries or roles.
Ranjit Shastri, co-founder of PSi, Inc and member of the Indian Angel Network discusses what it takes to make up for a successful business.
The most common mistake investors make is to inevst in funds wich have offered the highest return in recent times, says personal finance expert Rahul Goel.
Satish Magar speaks about his long journey on what often seemed like a road to Utopia.
The Indian MF industry offers a great investment opportunity to NRIs.
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