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When responsibility exceeds duty, magic happens.

What can ₹2,000 really do for assuring the future newborn girl in a poor family? At first glance, not much. But in Bihar, that modest sum is being transformed into a tool of empowerment through one of the finest synergies between the state, a fund house and a deprived beneficiary – the Mukhi...
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Can Crude be at 30-35 USD per barrel

India’s biggest agony – or so we learn from the numerous media mentions – is OIL. Specifically crude. Every time a small war or a big skirmish takes place, near or far, the mandarins at the various government departments shake in their designer socks and pass on the nerves to us, via the vario...
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Factor Investing: Now what is this new “thing”?

I remember when I started out in my career in fund management and my company, a joint venture between two giants, one global and one Indian, had a large number of very smart people coming in from mainly the mother lode – America.  Along with them, there was a trim set from Singapore. No matter [&...
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The Rupee Dilemma

Date first published: July 28, 2018 We have all heard stories about how, before Independence, the Maharajas used to live the good life abroad and wondered how they could do so when logic says everything foreign was so expensive. Instances of one such Maharajah, who bought a Rolls Royce or maybe a fe...
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The grand election festival is over. Let’s move on.

The grand nationwide jamboree lasting nearly 3 months is done and dusted. I, like many others have been glued to all kind of screens – the television, the office desktop, the laptop and the mobile and have consumed hours and hours of television and social media content. So has a large part of the ...
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The Biggest Money Managers. The Biggest Money Management Cities.

Money surely makes the world go around. And this is clear from the way the lot of us keep on chasing it through every hour of the day and night that we live. But who are the biggest money managers in the world and to put an interesting twist, which are the specialist money management […]...
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The Current Account Deficit. Is it important any more for us?

We all keep on hearing of the Current Account Deficit close to budget time and then sometimes when we switch on the business channel. Most of us know what it is – a measurement of a country’s trade where the value of the goods and services it imports exceeds the value of the products it export...
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Asset Allocation: The magic mantra

Markets rise and markets fall. Industries and sectors come and go out of focus and attention. Hot shot companies and their share prices see insane growth and then loose it all while some other “new” favourite hogs all the limelight. The stock markets look like a super crazy place where even more...
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