The Indian obsession with jewellery continues unabated. But people have also started looking at other forms of gold as an investment.

Sedentary lifestyles and faulty eating habits are causing life insurance premiums to go up. Find out what you should not be doing to keep your premium low.

This selection of research reports gives information and opinions on companies and industries. Such reports are often filled with jargon, which we must reluctantly inflict on readers since excerpts are verbatim. Six such terms occur in these extracts: EBITDA = Earnings Before Interest,Tax, Depreciation,Amortisation, EV = Enterprise Value, EPS = Earnings Per Share, PE = Price-Earnings, PAT = Profit After Tax and YoY= Year-on-Year.

The masters of Dalal Street share their investment strategies, their best moments and worst mistakes, and their advice for small investors with MONEY TODAY.

Every financial asset delivered terrific returns in 2006, for the third year running. Indian investors never had it so good. We take a quick look in the rearview mirror as we head into 2007.

Why are stock markets suddenly waking up to the real estate sector? It's more about housing than commercial real estate.

Doubts have been raised if initial public offerings are still creating wealth of the kind and surety they did till a few months ago.

M K M Pillai cooks up a profitable business in supplying meals to offices.

It is ambition and innovation that turn opportunities into success stories. M. K. M. Pillai knows this only too well.

A small set of hotel chains shows that eco-friendly practices help boost profits, not just a caring image.

Mumbai is the country's commercial capital, but for the city to become an international fulcrum for finance will take a lot of doing.

Securities and Exchange Board of India's proposed new takeover code could skew the regulatory framework in favour of big companies, argues Uday Kotak.

Conglomerates as well as smaller players backed by dollops of private equity are investing big bucks in processing food and taking it to the consumer.

The biggest deals in the past 30 days.

Two years after the property bubble burst, developers are back with cleaner balance sheets and projects that range from no-frills homes to swanky towers. But customers are not biting.

Contractionary policies, if followed by many industrialised countries simultaneously, could provoke a double-dip recession. We have much greater risk of deflation than inflation.

The road ahead is just a phrase unless you put pedal to metal and test its mettle. Learn to manoeuvre it right.

Ramky has emerged as a leading waste management company. Will a global footprint help it achieve its ambition of being a billion-dollar player?

The life insurance sector begins the task of wiping out losses that piled up over almost 10 years. But the focus on profits comes at a cost.

PE firms Bain Capital and TPG Capital acquired an undisclosed stake in Lilliput Kidswear—manufacturer, retailer and exporter of children's apparel—for close to Rs 385 crore.