The whole system is loaded in favour of institutional investors

While the equity market is booming, retail investors in the Indian stock markets are becoming scarcer. I am sure that if all the companies were to publish the number of shareholders, along with their quarterly results, it would be an eye-opener. Our regulations are one of the main reasons for this. As I see it, the whole system...

Keep your shopping list ready and wait for stock prices to come down to levels you are comfortable with

We have an interesting paradox. Corporate profits are likely to be in record territory, if one goes by the March 15th advance-tax payments. Stock prices, however, seem to be falling. Is that telling us something? Interest rates are rising; inflation is not yet tamed (shares are the only...

Spanco has diversified income streams and is growing fast

Income growth of 111%, 178%, 140% and 121% over the past four quarters. That has been the performance of Spanco Telesystems. From just Rs25 crore in December 04, its revenues have grown to Rs136 crore in December 06. Started by Kapil Puri and Rajesh Chhabria in 1995, initially Spanco was manufacturing EPABX and analogue radio products....