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Hemindra Hazari Equity research analysts produce impressive reports, operate complex statistical models, and can talk confidently about the future on the business channels. But the...

Hemindra Hazari Everyone knows public sector banks are less profitable, more prone to political influence and have higher ratios of non-performing assets (NPAs) than their...

It is curious that the first step of a reform-minded Chicago-school scholar was to announce a subsidy. Of course, unlike the subsidies that Rajan criticised as chairman of the Committee on Financial Sector Reforms in September 2008, this subsidy would go not to low income sections of the population, but to the banks.

Compliance with the formal corporate governance code will be incorporated in FY2001 annual reports. investors should not be dismayed by the lack of a...

HDFC Bank has used ingenious ways to understate its profits under Indian provisioning rules for FY2000. Apparently the year ended with the bank being...

Post this report and the subsequent media coverage, the Indian government changed the selection policy of appointment of SBI chairman solely on the basis of seniority.

Forecasts for financial institutions have to take into account the coming of a new chief executive officer (CEO). Some new CEOs have presented shocking...

In our experience companies adopt liberal accounting policies to cover up flagging fundamentals otherwise there is rarely a valid business reason.

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Academic studies have proved the commercial viability of research by taking it from the lofty towers of academia to the lowlands of the trading floor.