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Bonthron will work on the natural resources equity strategies and is set to report to Colm O'Connor, who oversees portfolio management across the natural resources equity suite.  O'Connor noted that Bonthron will bring «complementary skills and experience to the team, adding further depth to our expertise».  James Sym set to depart River Global for Goodhart Partners but deal over RGI European still in 'advanced discussions' The move marks his return to KBIGI after 14 years at a raft of other firms.  Bonthron previously spent two years as a portfolio manager on the firm's long-on...

Bonthron will work on the natural resources equity strategies and is set to report to Colm O'Connor, who oversees portfolio management across the natural resources equity suite.  O'Connor noted that Bonthron will bring «complementary skills and experience to the team, adding further depth to our expertise».  James Sym set to depart River Global for Goodhart Partners but deal over RGI European still in 'advanced discussions' The move marks his return to KBIGI after 14 years at a raft of other firms.  Bonthron previously spent two years as a portfolio manager on the firm's long-on...

Nvidia and Apple are undoubtedly leaders in this tech-based stock category, but there are three other stocks that have the potential of giving some magnanimous amount of returns to US investors in the coming years, all factors considered, suggests a Motley Fool report. Also Read :Will Beyonce stick around with rape accused husband Jay-Z; this is what a close source has said

Delhi Police has arrested three people who secured a loan of Rs 75 lakh by mortgage a property by preparing forged documents, officials said on Wednesday. The police arrested Pankaj Sachdeva alias Roshan Manchanda (61), who had fabricated property documents and identification credentials to secure the loan. The arrest also exposed the involvement of two accomplices, Suhail Chauhan and Nitin Verma, who worked as freelance loan agents. According to the police, the case was registered in 2019 on the complaint of Harminder Kaur Anand, a Bengaluru-based resident, who alleged that the property she purchased in 2011 at Rana Pratap Bagh in northwest Delhi had been fraudulently mortgaged to a private bank for a loan of Rs 75 lakh. «The woman was shocked to learn about the fraud during a visit to the property in 2018 when neighbours reported suspicious activities and her son-in-law discovered a loan notice pasted on the property,» Deputy Commissioner of Police (northwest) Abhishek Dhania said.

inverted duty structure for certain products in sectors like aluminium in the forthcoming Budget to boost domestic manufacturing, an official said. Inverted duty structure refers to taxation of inputs at higher rates than finished products that result in the build-up of credits and cascading costs. The industry has shared a list of products. An industry official said they want a cut in import duty of raw material for the aluminium sector.

He, however, cautioned that there is no room for complacency.

Beyoncé is putting her family first despite the rapper's rape allegations, sticking by Jay-Z, they'll deal with this together. After Jay-Z was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl during a party with Sean Diddy Combs in 2000, Beyoncé intends to stay married to him. The accusations have been strongly refuted by both rappers. Beyoncé is sticking by Jay, as evidenced by last night's family outing, in reference to the Carters walking the red carpet at Monday night's premiere of Mufasa: The Lion King, as quoted in a report by Page Six.

OpenAI's ChatGPT into its devices, delivering on a long-awaited feature that investors hope will help drive sales of its latest iPhones. The rollout is part of a wider deployment of artificial intelligence-powered tools in the latest updates to the operating systems for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers. The ChatGPT integration, announced in June as part of the Apple Intelligence unveil, will allow the company's Siri voice assistant tap the chatbot's expertise including on user queries about photos and documents such as presentations.

Shares of Infosys Ltd.(up 1.32 per cent), Wipro Ltd.(up 0.3 per cent), LTIMindtree Ltd.(up 0.3 per cent), Persistent Systems Ltd.(up 0.23 per cent) and MphasiS Ltd.(up 0.09 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

inflation data from the world's largest economy and India for further cues on interest rates. The benchmark 10-year yield ended at 6.7171%, compared with its previous close of 6.7073%.

Budget 2025: Every year, the Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance prepares the Union Budget, which is then presented by the Finance Minister. The Budget which is tabled annually serves as a financial plan for the country and lays out the estimated earnings and expenditures of the government for the upcoming fiscal year. Here are the five essential steps involved in the formation of the Union Budget: Initial Processes: The process starts approximately six months before the Budget is presented. The Finance Ministry releases Budget Circulars to the relevant ministries and departments, providing essential instructions and guidelines. These circulars are then circulated among disbursing and field officers, who provide information about their department’s financial expenditures, receipts for the current and previous fiscal years, and their financial needs for the upcoming fiscal year.

Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said the logistics cost in India will come down to 9 per cent within two years. Speaking during bauma Conexpo India, the Road Transport and Highways Minister said that «presently our logistics cost is 14-16 per cent… I assure you that within two years… our logistics cost will be 9 per cent. So we will be more competitive in the international market.» In China, the logistics cost is 8 per cent and in the US and European countries it is 12 per cent, the minister said. The minister further said the automobile industry is one of the important industries that is giving maximum revenue as part of GST to the state governments and the Centre.

Indian passport holders starting January 1, 2025, while the existing 60-day visa exemption for Indian travellers will remain in effect. Applicants, non-Thai nationals, must apply for all types of visas at the website https://www.thaievisa.go.th. Each application can be applied by (1) the applicants themselves or (2) other representatives. ALSO READ: Simplest hack for a cheap New Year's trip-go abroad

«We do need to make a distinction between regulation with respect to financial sector and regulation with respect to non-financial sector of the economy,» Nageswaran said at the CII Global Economic Policy Forum 2024. «In non financial sectors, excepting natural monopolies or utilities where you have to have a regulator to protect customer interest, you can expect competition to take care of much of the roles that regulators are expected to perform. So as long as you create a competitive environment as close to the theoretical perfect competition, then you are fine,» said the Chief Economic Advisor to Government of India.

Axis Bank's latest report warns that inflation in India is unlikely to ease quickly, as both core and food price indices are expected to remain closely linked. Despite food prices and vegetable costs being at cyclical highs, the report highlights that supply responses may lag the demand boost driven by income-transfer schemes. «In India, we do not see inflation easing quickly: over the long term, core and food price indices move together. Though food relative to core, and vegetables relative to food, are both at cyclical highs, the supply response may lag the demand boost from income-transfer schemes,» said the report titled " India Economic and Market Outlook 2025 ". ALSO READ: India's CPI inflation likely to ease to 5.5% in Nov from 6.2% in Oct: Morgan Stanley

MphasiS Ltd. 0.85 per cent to Rs 3156.00 in Wednesday's trade as of 01:53PM (IST) even as the benchmark Nifty ruled at 24662.4, 52.36 points. The scrip had closed at Rs 3183.20 in the previous session. The stock quoted a 52-week low of Rs 2180.05 and a high of Rs 3200.00. The company quoted a market-cap of Rs 59743.16 crore on the BSE.

Bajaj Holdings & Investment Ltd. traded 0.7 per cent in Wednesday's trade at 01:58PM (IST). Around 2,272 shares changed hands on the counter. The scrip opened at Rs 11304.35 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 11515.10 and Rs 11033.10, respectively, in the session so far. The stock of Bajaj Holdings & Investment Ltd. quoted a 52-week high of Rs 11515.10 and a 52-week low of Rs 7631.10.

I have a corpus of Rs 15 lakh after surrendering my LIC policy. I want to invest this amount for the goal of my daughter’s higher education. I have an investment horizon of four to five years. I would like to build a minimum of Rs 25 lakh corpus. Could you suggest some mutual funds? Can I invest some amount in mid- or small-cap funds for better returns? Dev Ashish Founder, StableInvestor, and Sebi-registered investment adviser: With a starting capital of Rs 15 lakh, your investment needs to earn 10.8-13.6% to reach the target of Rs 25 lakh in four to five years.

The conversation happened after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission asked Google about Microsoft's business practices as part of a broader investigation, the report said, citing a person directly involved in the discussion. Tech companies that compete with Microsoft in renting out cloud servers, such as Google and Amazon, also want to host OpenAI's models so that their cloud customers don't need to access Microsoft servers to get access to the startup's technology, the report said.