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Active vs Passive: Which investment strategy can deliver better long-term returns? Experts weigh in
An ongoing debate in financial circles is the role of active and passive styles of investing in constructing investment portfolios. The goal of active fund managers is to beat the market while passive investment managers duplicate specific index returns but have a lower fee structure. So, which strategy can deliver better long-term returns? Experienced mutual fund experts—Pratik Oswal, head, passive business, Motilal Oswal AMC and Aashish Somaiyaa, CEO, White Oak AMC—who have a keen understanding of how these two strategies influence returns in different market cycles, discuss
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Inside our venture capital special
The talk and effects of funding winter have gripped the Indian startup ecosystem. But, early-stage investments in the same ecosystem seem to have survived so far. For this 'VCs special' issue, Rajiv Singh interacted with a wide section of early-stage and growth-stage VC firms. In this podcast, he shares the insights he gathered and what to expect from this special edition
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Vishal Shah at Synersoft Technologies on what it takes to crack the Indian MSME market with a hardware IT product
In this episode, Vishal Prakash Shah, co-founder and CEO at Synersoft Technologies, talks about how his venture went from "miserable failure" to 10,000 installations with paying customers among India's MSMEs — offering an IT-in-a-box product fine-tuned for the needs of small enterprises. He also talks about "cloud-flation" and why small enterprises in India are still wary of the cloud, although Synersoft too is looking for funding to build the infrastructure for its cloud software product for that inevitable future
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James Foster on cybersecurity outside the firewall, and the growing talent base in India at ZeroFox
In this episode, James C Foster, founder and CEO of ZeroFox, outlines the growing opportunity in cybersecurity outside the enterprise firewall, as social media has changed how businesses interact with consumers. Foster recently visited Bengaluru, where his company has just added enough office space for 300 employees. The US-based company, with customers including NASA, Nike, Uber, United, Costco and AC Milan, doubled its talent base in India this year to 200 and is currently hiring in areas including cyber security operations, cyber threat intelligence, data science, and engineering
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Vikram Gupta and Yatin Kavishwar at Awiros on their ambition to build an OS and marketplace for video AI
In this episode, Vikram Gupta and Yatin Kavishwar, co-founders of Awidit Systems, talk about how they are developing Awiros, which is best described as an operating system on top of which multiple computer vision and video analytics applications can be brought together. Vikram, who brings the science and tech experience, and Yatin, a veteran tech salesman, are also building a marketplace for such applications. They've raised their first significant round of institutional venture capital recently and also bagged an order from the Bengaluru Safe City project, supported by India's Nirbh
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Ram Sukumar on how he plans to double revenue to $100 mln at Indium Software
In this episode, Ram Sukumar, cofounder and CEO at Chennai's Indium Software, talks about the opportunities for the digital engineering services company — in not only traditional IT outsourcing, but also in 'horizon 2' areas including modern software product engineering, low-code and gaming. Ram also talks about how he's been reorganising the company to sharpen the focus on valuable customers in both these areas to sustain a compounded annual growth rate of 50 percent, as he aims to hit $100 million in revenue over the next two years
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Invest or avoid: Should HNIs consider pre-IPO investments? Sreeram Reddy Vanga of Kofluence and Arvind Bansal of Avendus Wealth offer their takes
After a lull of about six months, IPOs are back with a bang. This is a time when wealth managers actively market pre-IPO investments. Should you bite the bait or not- what's the best portfolio strategy? To throw light on this, Forbes India's Neha Bothra is joined by two veterans—Sreeram Reddy Vanga, co-founder of Kofluence, and Arvind Bansal, executive director and head of products and advisory at Avendus Wealth—who have decades of first hand experience of investing in IPO bound companies, and have a contrasting take on the subject
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Luxe Populi: Inside Forbes India's luxury special issue
At the onset of Diwali, Forbes India brings you a special luxury issue that dives into the world of private jets, yacht shows, expensive art collections, exclusive designers, and even gastronomy made with the luxury focal points. Issue anchor Darielle Britto flips the pages and gives an overview
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Arjun Gupta on ambition to lift millions from energy poverty, tackle carbon emissions and build a world-class company
In this episode, Arjun P Gupta, founder and CEO of Smart Joules in New Delhi, talks about his ambition to play a role in lifting millions of Indians from energy poverty and curtailing carbon emissions in the process. Arjun aspires to build an Indian company that can take on multinational giants such as Honeywell and Siemens in offering a building and energy management automation technology platform. He is currently looking to raise his series B funding for Smart Joules, which he founded in early 2015
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Mrinal Rai at ISG on the demand outlook for IT services and the opportunity to double down on transformation
In this episode, Mrinal Rai, senior research manager and principal analyst at Information Services Group, a leading technology services outsourcing advisory company, talks about how demand is likely to shape up in the coming quarters for India's top IT companies. With demand still strong, but caution seeping into actual spending, this is also the time for the vendors to do more, by investing and ramping up their business-transformation-oriented IT capabilities, Rai says
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Varun Badhwar at Endor Labs on the massive opportunity to make borrowing open source software safer
In this episode, Varun Badhwar, Indian-born serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, talks about his latest venture, Endor Labs, which has just come out of stealth mode, announcing a $25 million seed funding round to commercialise a software product aimed at mitigating the risks involved in borrowing software components from the internet — a growing trend. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Sierra Ventures, and CEOs and executives from Microsoft, Zoom, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks and Snowflake