A clutch of realty IPOs hangs fire as investors lose their appetite for the underperforming sector.

Wine trading has emerged from the recent economic recession as strong as ever, with gains of 15.7 per cent posted for top wines from Bordeaux. Charles Curtis, MW, lets you in on the smart investment choices and pitfalls to avoid when starting or expanding your wine collection.

Several funds have earned less than a savings bank account in the past three years. If you own such lemons, get rid of them.

Kamya Jaiswal considers if she should sell the three poor performers in her portfolio. Find out why she holds back two...

Being too aggressive or conservative in your approach to investment is as bad as being a habitual procrastinator. Here's solution to suit your temperament.

The eurozone crisis has sent stocks across the globe into a tailspin on fears of a double-dip recession. But though markets may remain jittery awhile, another global meltdown is unlikely.

Most of our earlier start-up listers thrive, except for a few that stumbled.

Two classmates from management guru Bala Balachandran's Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, believe they have a way for millions of small and medium businesses to make the best of their marketing spends.

What do you do when you are a month-old start-up and a leading business process outsourcing or BPO firm wants a stake in you? Nishant Saxena, founder and CEO of start-up Elements Akademia, an employability training player, got ambitious.

Slots on national television for local advertisements, via cable TV operators. In short, narrow-band TV. That's the niche in which K.A. Srinivasan, Baskar S. and Srividhya S. are focussing.

Indian entrepreneurs have evolved over the past decade, and the recent economic slowdown has only made them nimbler, braver, more open-minded, more diverse-and more successful.

Rules tend to overlook the most important part of a financial plan-you. Learn how to customise your strategy according to your personality to increase its efficacy.

After a 2004 buyout, IBM refrained from integrating Daksh into its fold letting it bloom on its own. Not only has the business grown ten-fold, Big Blue is now turning to the Indian outfit for its next big bet: Analytics.

With a near-death experience behind it, Orchid Chemicals prepares to fly again. K. Raghavendra Rao, MD, is as audacious as ever.

Asset management companies are sprucing up their websites to facilitate online transactions by not just tech-savvy investors but even lay ones.

The share sale plans of SKS Microfinance, India's biggest microlender, will not just boost its cash reserves. The IPO, one way or the other, will echo in India for decades to follow.

The finance honcho at the tractor and automobile maker is perfecting the art of balancing strategic imperatives and financial decision-making.

In a year in which Infosys showed negative growth for the first time in its history, its CFO did well to avoid a big-time erosion in value.

The stock market regulator's nod to physical delivery of equity derivatives could pave the way for major changes in the F&O (futures & options) segment and cut down on speculative activity that has been the bane of small investors.

Smart investors with a long-term horizon are well placed, argues Raamdeo Agrawal.