The chain connecting a country's growth to a company's profits has many links. Some are weaker than others, and one break is all it takes for the chain to snap, argues Shreedhar Kanetkar

"There is no limit to my expectation on GDP growth,” finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram was quoted as saying in December 2006. Analysts agreed. “We are revising up our full-year forecast marginally to...

In their attempt to be different, fund companies are coming out with funds of different flavours. Here is one more addition to that list. ABN Amro has come up with a scheme that intends to generate long-term capital growth from an “actively managed portfolio of equity and equity related securities primarily of the Socially Responsible Companies focusing on Sustainable Development”. In USA, it...