As stock markets soar, India Inc. has found a slick way to raise capital on the double. But a few dodgy promoters may join the party.

The patriarch, who once doggedly pursued joint ventures with global majors, now wants his son and daughter to build their own tech-savvy next-gen brand.

Keeping tabs on your investments regularly is the first step to intelligent investing. Online trackers make your task easy.

Short-term debt funds have emerged as an attractive investment option for investors.

Your insurance agent will lose heavily if he sells you a policy that has a hefty first-year premium.

Focussing on growth when it should have been working on consolidation cost Subhiksha its business. Can it make a comeback?

Business Today catches up with four pilgrims who made the long trip to Omaha to hear the Oracle speak at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual general meeting.

A clutch of high-profile bankers has quit their cushy jobs and set up their own advisory hot-shops to woo high net worth and retail clients with the promise of personalised services and solid wealth creation. Anand Adhikari reports.

Investors are now increasingly running to financial planners to fix their out-of-shape investment portfolios. BT looks at the reasons behind the trend.

The time-bomb of foreign currency-denominated debt has been ticking for some time now and some of India’s best-known companies are at the doorstep of a default.

The new kid on the trading block that’s set to launch an equity and derivates platform is from Financial Technologies, which currently has in its stable India’s largest commodity futures exchange, the Multi-Commodity Exchange. It is giving competition to NSE, which is gearing up to deal with the commodities bourse major. Rachna M. Koppikar reports.

The bearish sentiment in the information technology sector—which a section of analysts feels is overdone— may actually be a good opportunity to pick select stocks on the cheap, for the long term. Virendra Verma goes into the details.

Some 16 months ago, Anthony Bolton, the 55-year-old MD (Investments) of Fidelity International, passed on the baton to a younger breed of fund managers at Fidelity Special Situations Fund, a value-focussed, often contrarian equity portfolio, in the UK.

Gold has become an attractive option for investors over the short to medium term. Several new and innovative schemes for investing in the yellow metal have been launched recently.

Stifled by a lack of growth and frozen hikes, many youngsters have turned entrepreneurs. While talent and real estate are going cheap, funding is scarce and gun-shy investors are taking longer to firm up their plans. Will these greenhorn entrepreneurs survive?

In any competitive environment, there will be some who excel and some who do not. There will always be winners and losers. It is not a reflection of how they (employees who have been asked to leave on the basis of their performance) will do in another company or in future.

Few know of his passion for cricket, but 42-year-old Ajay Bijli, CMD, PVR, is doing everything to offer a sporting experience—in whatever form.

Most of the millions who stagger into Mumbai with nothing else but a dream quickly learn how to survive.That art, however, gets mighty Herculean when the commercial engine of the country slows down. BT catches up with six men and women in the street who live life under the middle-class radar, but who are never totally out of it. Rachna M. Koppikar reports.

In 10 years, demand for power will touch three times its existing capacity. That poses a challenge for policymakers and an opportunity for investors.

Dr Rakesh Mohan’s Monetary Policy in a Globalized Economy combines a policymaker’s know-how with a scholar’s precision.