Archive for April, 2009

Qualified Institutional Placement

Qualified institutional placement (QIP) is simply the means whereby a listed company can issue equity shares, fully and partly convertible debentures, or any securities other than warrants which are convertible to equity shares to a Qualified Institutional Buyer (QIB).

Apart from preferential allotment, this is the only other method of private placement.

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Google emerges as the world’s first 100 billion dollar brand

They changed the lexicon for the word, search. Now the phrase “I’ll just Google it” has helped make the internet search giant become world’s first $100 billion brand beating other household names like Microsoft, and Coca Cola to McDonald’s.

The analysts of the Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands by consultants Millward Brown found that the company’s value of $101.4 billion puts it 25 percent more valuable than computer software king Microsoft at $77.3 billion, reported Daily Mail Thursday.

Coca Cola ($68.5 billion) managed the third place in the list.

Technology companies make up the bulk of the top 10 with IBM (fourth at $67.5 billion), Apple (sixth at $63.9 billion) and China Mobile (seventh at $62.2 billion), along with consumables like cigarette brand Marlboro (10th at 50.1 billion) and burger chain McDonald’s (fifth at $67.3 billion).

Energy major GE (eight at $59.9 billion) and telecom giant Vodafone (ninth at $50.2 billion) complete the top 10 valuable brands in the world.

Google, formed at Stanford University by students Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997, went up 16 percent in brand value in the past year to just break the $100 billion mark.

Google marketing manager Lorraine Twohill said: “We know that without consumers you have nothing and there is a great element of trust in us.

“We think about the consumer first and expect everything else to fall into place after that.

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Brain Drain

A slang term for a significant emigration of educated or talented individuals.It is also referred as human capital flight

This cause countries to lose valuable professionals i.e.

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India-fund flows turn positive

Global investors are warming up to India, it appears from the fact that money has started flowing into India dedicated funds after the local markets gained close to 40% in a global rally.

These funds saw inflows of around Rs 500 crore in the week ended April 22 and a little over Rs 1,000 crore over the past four weeks, Citigroup analysts Elaine Chu and Markus Rosgen wrote in a report.

Inflows for the year were marginally negative by around Rs 10 crore until the latest inflows.

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UTI mutual funds to merge equity schemes

UTI Asset Management Company (UTI AMC), one of the largest fund houses in the country, is planning a mega merger of the equity schemes in its portfolio.

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