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Financial discipline is one of the main factors that will help companies draw in funds in 2012, Kenneth Andrade tells Forbes India

The outlook for India’s real estate sector is largely positive with Mumbai continuing to be the most attractive market, says real estate expert Sanjay Dutt

Men possess, gentlemen (and women) collect. Why do we collect? Exactly the reason why we want our genome analysed. To feel history and to connect to an age that has gone by. The things that we collect also reveal our personality. Someone who collects porcelain and Ming vases will sip from a different cup than someone who collects chain mail armour. Finally, there is a minor matter of feeling alive and evolving because there is no end to what one can collect and there is always the possibility o

The precious metal is in the last stage of a bull market; once global economies get back on track, it will lose its glow

…considering that interest rates and inflation are on the verge of peaking out. Ritesh Jain is Canara Robeco's head of Fixed Income and overseas fund management team.