We have heard of stray cases of Indian politicians being involved in trading stocks. An academic study pinpoints the market-beating record of US Senators by using their power and position

Some years ago, there was talk of the late Pramod Mahajan holding shares in listed companies. Chandra Babu Naidu’s wife runs Heritage Foods, a listed company, in Hyderabad. There are indications of a former...

Regulatory Idea of the Fortnight: There is a desperate rush among the big, smart hedge fund managers to enter India, now that the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has put an extremely attractive condition - that they should agree to a lock-in period of two years. According to a media report, SEBI chairman M Damodaran is trying to persuade many new hedge funds to agree to the lock-in...

“We have seen already health insurance prices increase by over 100% in a few companies because of adverse claims experience. I foresee similar things happening in health and maybe, after one or two years, in private car insurance” - Kamesh Goyal, CEO, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, in The Economic Times

“The company will not feature Rahul Dravid in its new ad campaigns.We have lost Rs6...