The rupee has slid from 51-52 per dollar in January to 56 this month. To arrest this fall, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deregulated interest rates on non-resident ordinary (NRO) and non-resident

I am 27 and run my own travel agency. I am out of India most of the time and frequent five to six countries almost every month. What kind of cover is advisable for me? Also, if any mishap occurs, will

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman U K Sinha on Saturday said the capital markets regulator had asked the Union government to allow investments in mutual funds to be made

The discussion on India's growth slowdown and investment slump typically vacillates between fact and conjecture. First, the facts. Investment-led growth is the only sustainable growth driver in a

At an industry meet here last month, CDC Asia's Managing Director, Anubha Shrivastava, made a startling disclosure: Most private equity (PE) investors have only generated low, single-digit returns

After some relief, rates on short-term debt instruments have crossed 10 per cent levels within a month as liquidity pressures have not eased despite inflows. Heavy weekly government borrowing and

For beginners, it is not easy to choose a mutual fund scheme to invest in. Even I have gone through this. I initially relied on the advice of my friends and / or family members, you have invested in

The saying - cash is king - is largely true in any tough global scenario when the market remains abysmally low or rangebound for a long period. Globally, fund managers do hold cash significantly in

Many successful investors and speculators have written about their methods. Studying gurus and using them as models is useful. But there is a danger in slavish imitation of any investment style. The

Taking the benefit of higher interest rates and a weakening rupee, non-resident Indians (NRIs) sent $11 billion (nearly Rs 60,000 crore) home into bank deposits during 2011-12, three times more than