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New Curbs on International Investment – What Next? Om Ahuja, CEO – Residential Services, Jones Lang LaSalle India

In uncertain times, preservation of capital becomes the key consideration for smart investors. Currency volatility and sustained weakness in the recent times has led the capital controls by the banking regulator in India. Over the last one month, four notifications specifically aimed at curbing the investor sentiment for gold and commodities have been issued. Equity …

Silver Report: Umesh Shanmugam

Silver is a volatile beast, a scabby snake.It moves like a sidewinder on Adderall — that is, silver won’t flow in a straight line, but it is laser focused on where it has to go.And it’s going up. The last major bull market for silver (prior to 2010, that is) was the 1970s.In the decade of …

The Importance Of FDI For Indian Real Estate : Shobhit Agarwal, Managing Director – Capital Markets, Jones Lang LaSalle India

Project Costs Moving Northward While banks have aided most real estate development in the past, the cost of debt is getting higher by the day. The strict guidelines introduced by RBI have made real estate lending even more expensive and cumbersome. Currently, the costs of key inputs for real estate development are up by at …