As we enter the new year, it is time to take a look at how gold has performed as an investment class and how it is likely to behave in the coming year. One of the reasons why we keep an eye on gold is that unlike other commodities whose prices depend on simple […]Continue Reading
At a global level, the Indian education sector is amongst the largest, with over 250 million school going students, more than anywhere else. It also has one of the largest networks of higher education institutions in the world. In 2017-18, the total number of colleges and universities in India stood at 39,050 and 903 respectively. […]Continue Reading
Most of management is about managing your personal resources -time, skill sets and competencies. In the common lingo of daily management language we call the ‘owner’ -an entrepreneur, promoter etc. The employee is categorised as ‘professional’. The promoter or the entrepreneur infuses the capital and takes the risks while the professionals work a set of […]Continue Reading
A decade ago ‘Social Business’ had been considered an oxymoron, indicating that they are seemingly divergent economic paths. Several leading social entrepreneurs have proved over the years that it is not true and social businesses thrive when they are looked at as businesses and not […]Continue Reading
In a bid to deepen the bilateral engagements with the Nordic countries, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has reached Sweden today. The Indian PM’s visit to Sweden is a part of his five day foreign visit trip. Sweden is the first place the PM has visited in his trip. Ensuring that the Indian PM […]Continue Reading
Up until the end of January 2018, stock markets around the world were scaling new heights and setting new records at regular intervals. In the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a record when it closed at 26,616.71 on January 26, 2018. In India, the BSE Sensex set its own closing record at 36,283.25 on 29 […]Continue Reading
These are heady days for the stock markets. The Sensex and Nifty have been closing at new peaks over the last few days. As of November 1, 2017, the BSE had crossed the 33,600 levels while the Nifty was at 10,440, both at record highs. In the US too, the stock market indices are trading […]Continue Reading
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has recently released estimates that India’s GDP for the third quarter ended December 2016 recorded a growth of 7 percent, sharply beating expectations for a much lower 6.4 percent growth rate indicated in a Reuters poll held just before. The numbers were greeted with considerable skepticism by a section of […]Continue Reading
On 13 January 2017, CII Kerala organised an investors’ meet at Kochi to promote recycling industries in Kerala as part of extended producer responsibility. The event was attended by a galaxy of distinguished speakers drawn from the highest ranks of government, bureaucracy and industry who shared their thoughts about recycling and better waste management. […]Continue Reading
On the 10 th of November, we at Manappuram Finance Limited, reported our second quarter results.Our performance was very impressive with the net profit of Rs.350 crore for the half year up to September 30 being equal to the net profit for the whole of last year. However, it so happened that our results were declared […]Continue Reading



















