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NEW DELHI: Global investors are keen on investing in India as China has lost its sheen, Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria said on Tuesday during a talk with top officials of power, coal and renewable energy ministries on leadership attributes

Improved market sentiments helped mutual funds' assets under management (AUM) soar by Rs 80,000 crore or nine per cent to Rs 9.85 lakh crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal.

The country's 44 fund houses together had an average AUM of Rs 9.

By Manasije Mishra 

Health Insurance is necessary for every individual, keeping in mind the rising medical costs and spurt of lifestyle diseases amongst Indians. A medical emergency can attack anyone, anytime and impact an individual emotionally and f

Just when consumers and investors were getting ready to welcome the acche din promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the inflation ogre has come back from the cold. The whole price index rose 6.01% in May, a sharp rise from 5.2% in the previous mo

Whenever you invest to build a corpus, invest on regular intervals and always go for compound interest.

For example Rs. 10000/- invested monthly @10% compound interest will become 7.80 lacs in 5 years. and if rate of interest is 14%, it becomes 8.72 l

1. Fixed Deposit : 9 % to 9.5%

2. Gold: 12% to 15%

3. Real Estate - 15% to 18% (investment horizon 5 years)

4. Equity (Stock) - 15% to 22% (need regular watch on market and support from financial advisor.

Best practices for other SEBs: Under the leadership of Narendra Modi, Gujarat has seen an impressive turnaround in the power sector—its distribution arm has an eight-year-long profitable track record and supplies 24x7 power. Losses were cut via the l

By Aviral Gupta 

Starting with an update on monsoons, rains were 31 percent below average in the week to June 25, improving from 45 percent below average in the second week of the monsoon. The first week recorded the sharpest deficit of 49 percent bel

NEW DELHI: With the football World Cup reaching the halfway mark and entering the knockout zone, market punters around the world are taking stock of their portfolios as a win or loss in Brazil impacts valuations.

The mood is most sombre in Italy and S

n an op-ed about high-frequency trading in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, former hedge-fund manager Andy Kessler suggests that poor pricing of collateralized debt obligations between 2006 and mid-2008 were a significant reason for the crisis that aros

Its an Investment for:-

• Laying more & better tracks
• Start new trains to increase passenger carrying capacity
• modernizing signalling
• Reducing oil imports (it takes less fuel to move goods vis rail)

A short term goal should be to design & execute

Infosys CEO SD Shibulal owns 700+ apartments in Seattle; now buying in Berlin, Frankfurt 

BANGALORE: Companies founded by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos may be the biggest employers in Seattle, but SD Shibulal is a person of no mean influence in the hom

• “awareness.” - the ability to read the room (social awareness) and the ability to read your effect on the people in the room (self-awareness).
• "awareness” of yourself and the people around you that helps you leverage previously untapped personal quali

Categorized your expenses in 3 categories: Need, Wants and Luxury. 

For example, grocery is need, seeing movie is want and seeing movie in multiplex on recliner chair is luxury.

In today's scenario, 50% of expenses are on luxurious items. If you cut it

Highlights of Report 

- 29 countries have at least one $1B company. 

- Google has a higher valuation than the remaining 49 countries combined. (Google = $410 billion; Rest of 49 countries= $400 billion) 

- Alibaba, China's e-commerce giant, has a valuat

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/06/18/india-budget-iraq-idINKBN0ET0IY20140618

• Future expected oil prices:120 $/barrel
• Potentially driving a hole of at least 200 billion rupees in budget
• Significant impact on the fiscal deficit and economic growth
• For