The SEBI chairmanship is up for grabs and there is plenty of speculation about who would bag the coveted post. SEBI has had five chairmen in its 15 years of existence as a statutory watchdog and, of these, only three had significant tenures.  GV Ramakrishna ensured that SEBI got its statutory teeth and his deadly combination of brilliance, strategy, scrupulous honesty and willingness to...

Some of the best Indian companies have been huge value destroyers. Debashis Basu explains why

These are among the best names in the Indian corporate sector: Tata Motors, Indian Hotels, Gillette India (formerly called Indian Shaving Products), Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Hindustan Unilever, Tata Tea, Sundaram Finance… If you had invested in any of these great companies 10 years ago,...

These 7 sectors are hot but they are also high-risk Debashis Basu and Shailendra Lotlikar analyse

How you choose your industry sectors determines what your stocks do for you. What sectors should you be exposed to in 2008? To determine this, we ran through the aggregate financials of all 49 sectors that we track. From among these, we have eliminated six sectors which have reported an...