Your company just bought another company in a faraway land for “strategic” reasons. How would you know whether the money was well-spent? Shreedhar Kanetkar suggests the preliminary step towards an effective analysis

If you haven’t found yourself wondering whether acquisitions make sense, chances are you soon will. In the first six months of 2006 alone, Indian companies entered into...

Balanced funds are in vogue - under a different garb

Balanced funds have not lived up to their name because most of them follow a disbalanced strategy of investing. Is that why fund companies want to bring them back under a different name? What else explains the strategy of two balanced funds coming to the market but neither of them sporting the name balanced? They now call themselves...

Here is a simple strategy to retire wealthy. The hard part is following it

Today, with starting incomes being fairly handsome, it is possible to have a nice nest egg when you are 50. You can retire early if you choose to, do something on your own or chase your dreams, provided you plan early. All you have to do is to take a fixed amount every month and put it away for a definite time horizon....