Finance Forum India

Mr. Ramdeo Agarwal is the Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Financial Services. He is a reputed stock picker and is one of the most successful Indian entrepreneurs in the financial services industry.

Ms. Kalpana Morparia is the Chief Executive Officer of J.P. Morgan, India. She shares her insights on the current M&A environment and discusses the skills required to become a successful investment banker.

Rohit Kumar works in a corporate finance role at a leading multinational corporation. His previous stints include International Economics roles at Planning Commission of India and Strategic Sourcing work at Tata Motors. He is a CFA L2 candidate. He has done his MBA from NITIE Mumbai and engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi. He can be contacted at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.     The shadow of economic and financial crisis of 2008 has prolonged, casting a serious doubt on trend of industrial growth. The aftermath of political logjam in a fatal mixture of high debt and low growth regime has made...

Mr. Vikas Khemani, Executive Vice President & Co-Head Institutional Equities at Edelweiss Capital shares his experience of managing the Wholesale Capital Markets business at Edelweiss.

Avadhut Nigudkar is an independent online entrepreneur and founder of FinanceWalk. He has over 12 years of experience working with a credit rating agency, a software company, a healthcare company and a boutique investment bank. He has also rendered services as a visiting faculty to top business schools in India and is a member of Mckinsey Online Executive Panel. Avadhut is a Master of Business Administration (Finance) and a CSMP (Certified Securities Markets Professsional).                       What is Equity Research? Equity research is what an equity research analyst does. Well, to...

Mr. Sunit Joshi, Executive Vice President, Capital Markets Group, SBI Capital Markets speaks about the role of merchant banking in the Indian capital market.

Mr. Krishna Sanghvi, Head of Equities at Kotak Mutual Fund manages several mutual funds like Kotak Opportunities, Kotak Tax Saver, Kotak Balance etc. He shares his extensive experience in the Indian Asset Management Industry and explains how students can make a career in this industry.

Amol Agrawal, an Economist, discusses the reasons for the rising inflation in India and how it can be restrained to sustainable levels.

Suyash Bharadwaj is an MBA student from IIM Calcutta. During his summer internship in the Investment Banking Division at Bonanza Portfolio Limited, Suyash was involved in Fund Raising and Mergers & Acquisitions advisory. Interest Rate Risk – A risk is any variation from the expected return of an investment on the downside. An interest rate risk implies the risk that an investment's value will change due to a change in the absolute level of interest rates, in the spread between two rates, in the shape of the yield curve or in any other interest rate relationship. Basically such a downside depends...

Suyash Bharadwaj is an MBA student from IIM Calcutta. During his summer internship in the Investment Banking Division at Bonanza Portfolio Limited, Suyash was involved in Fund Raising and Mergers & Acquisitions advisory. For the starters, Sensex is the sensitive index, the benchmark index of 30 most illustrious companies whose shares are traded in the Bombay Stock Exchange. The base value of Sensex is calculated by a free float market method. By this method a weight is assigned to the market price of stock and is multiplied with the existing stock price. This weight is the number of shares available...