Risk management
With new instruments like real estate and infrastructure investment trusts coming up, the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has set up a panel of experts, headed by former Sebi chief GN Bajpai, to review investment norms for National Pension System (NPS) schemes for the private sector. PFRDA chairman RV Verma said that the [...] Continue Reading »
Since the past five years the infrastructure sector has seen the fortunes of decline precipitously but the burgeoning debt, stalled power projects and falling stock prices haven’t diminished at all GM Rao’s enthusiasm for improving his company’s management systems. Even as he douses the fires that still continue to spring up occasionally in various rooms [...] Continue Reading »
Housing finance was viewed by banks as one of the safest avenues for lending. Banks that had got into the act early on, in competition with the specialised housing finance companies that started the business, were handsomely rewarded with a very positive risk-reward profile for several years. As the sector expanded, though, many of these [...] Continue Reading »
