
These investments are probably as old as mankind. May be that is an overstatement but you will know what I mean. These 3 investments have been here for a while and for strange reason are really doing well. 1. Real estate : This probably is the oldest investment vehicle known to man. Real estate [...]

Everyone should have a strategy for personal finance. I don’t have one. At least not yet. My strategy right now is to get out of debt and get away from EMI hell. I work enough for the government and I don’t want to work for the banks too. I am trying to come up with [...]

50% of the Indian companies which are registered under companies act, 1956 have not filed their balance sheets or annual returns for the past three years. Any company registered under the companies act is supposed to file the balance sheet and annual return. The companies which haven’t [...]

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) released a guide on understanding offer documents. With the document title “Guide to understand an Offer Document” SEBI has provided a cheatsheet for investors. The document contains important information about the public offers and what to look for in an offer document. The first [...]
by sriram on March 25, 2010 in PE & VC

Intel Capital is the investment arm of the US chip maker Intel. It has a corpus of $250 million set-up for India. 60% of the fund is already invested in various companies. In its latest round of funding Intel Capital has invested in 3 companies – July Systems, KLG Systel and MCX. The split [...]

Kuwait’s Zain Telecom board has approved $10.7 bn takeover by India’s Bharti Airtel. This would place Bharti strategically above many of its peers in India and abroad. This deal at $10.7bn is the second largest acquisition ever by an Indian company. Tata Steel’s takeover of Corus was at $12.2 billion. Zain deal [...]