Mugunthan Siva is the Chief Investment Officer of Optimix, India's first independent Fund of Funds. He began his career in with the Australian banking sector in 1991. In 1993 he joined RetireInvest, one of Australia's largest financial planning group's investment division known then as Le Fort and later OptiMix. After a brief stint with Macquarie Bank he rejoined Optimix in 2002 as portfolio...

These companies have an excellent record and are available at very reasonable valuations. Analysis by ML Research Desk

The ultimate dream of every investor is to buy stocks that will multiply not just two or three times, but many times, over a period. That is what stocks like Gujarat Ambuja or Infosys in India or Microsoft and GE in US have done for investors. They are household names today...

When the fad of investing in rural areas was rife, we had suggested Jain Irrigation Sytems (JISL) would be one of the stocks attracting attention (June 7th issue). Since that period, the stock has gone up 39%. It has an interesting portfolio of products including drip and sprinkler irrigation systems; PVC pipes and polyethylene pipes as also PVC sheets and polycarbonate sheets used in the...