Intuition. Perception. Perfection.

     After years of swinging from losses to profits and back again, Max India may have finally emerged. Max, which is essentially a holding company, operates in a wide variety of business segments ranging from insurance to healthcare through a cluster of subsidiary companies. And now, for the very first time, with all its businesses in the green, the company may finally be on the trajectory towards a long and sustainable period of growth and outperformance. For now, the market might still be skeptical of Max’s apparent turnaround but a myriad of factors do seem to indicate that the good times have indeed started for the Analjit Singh – led company.      As far as Max’s business diversifications are concerned, insurance is the company’s mainstay. Max Life is the company’s life insurance subsidiary, which broke even in the past fiscal for the very first time and declared its maiden dividend. The division, which was founded several years ago in ...

     Ah, les Français. Il est vrai qu’ils sont souvent considérés comme un objet de ridicule par presque tout le monde. Mais quand on parle de monde des affaires, les compagnies françaises sont parmi les meilleures. En plus … oh wait. I seem to have gotten carried away with my French. Allow me to start over.           Ah, the French. It’s true that they are often considered to be an object of ridicule by practically everyone. But when it comes to the world of business, French companies are among the best. Even today, France Inc is at the forefront of innovation and its companies dominate and often play the role of the bellwethers of the industries in which they operate. And today, in a Eurozone that is recuperating from a crippling economic and financial crisis, several French companies find themselves in a quandary. A couple of years ago, Europe sneezed and France caught a cold. And its economy never quite recovered. On t...

     1929: The USA. 1997: East Asia. 2008: Wall Street. 2010: The Eurozone. 2014: India.      Yes, you read that right. India. But don’t get me wrong. A financial and economic crisis won’t just spring upon the country out of the blue in 2014. The snowball, in fact, has already started rolling and as it goes further down the hill, it will only get larger. The Indian economy is already on the precipice and it might just be a matter of time before it goes off the cliff.      Most Western economies face a few obstacles on the path to recovery, while the other aspects of their economies seem healthy. India, however, is not that lucky and the country faces a myriad of financial problems. With slowing economic growth, high inflation, a weakening Rupee, a trade deficit, an underperforming bourse, downgrades by global rating agencies, a crisis of confidence and a departure of foreign institutional investor (FII...

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