by Rajat Sharma | Sep 8, 2014 | company, investment |
Private Companies: As the name suggests, companies which are owned by a small, private group of people or entities – company’s founders, management or a group of private investors. Transfer of shareholding is restricted unless agreed to by all the shareholders. What...
by Rajat Sharma | Jul 17, 2014 | Consulting |
What exactly should you be concerned about before diving into a business, either to buy or to operate as your own? What do you have to do to run a fund house? A brokerage firm? A small scale manufacturing unit? Or, a service oriented business? Equally important is to...
by Rajat Sharma | Jun 23, 2014 | Consulting |
“Credit rating agency Moody’s has assigned a ‘Baa3’ rating to India, with a stable outlook”. You must have read/heard this news. Do these AAAs, Baa3s, Cas, CCCs make any sense to you? Just like a school report card, these grades serve as a marking system /score card...
by Rajat Sharma | Jun 2, 2014 | investment, stocks |
Outlook and Key stats Indian automobile industry is a key contributor to India’s GDP. At US $ 80 billion, the automobile industry accounts for ~7% of India’s GDP *. While the Indian economy has grown at ~8% p.a. in the last 5 years (2009-2013), the Indian automobile...
by Rajat Sharma | May 30, 2014 | stocks |
Last week witnessed the 10th big departure from Infosys in little over a year as president and board member B.G. Srinivas made his exit. In December last year, V. Balakrishnan, Infosys’ head of BPO operations had quit. He was one of the front runners to become the CEO...