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Questions:

1. What is the model that is commonly used to price options?

2. Jammu and Kashmir Bank holds a stake in which Indian private life insurance company?

3. In financial parlance, what is referred to as a `poison pill'?

4. He is considered an authority on emerging markets and has also authored a book titled "Passport to Profits". Who are we talking about here?

5. In early 2003, Prudential ICICI Mutual Fund launched the SPIcE fund. What does SPIcE stand for?

6. Biocon has recently firmed up an agreement to supply recombinant human insulin to which global pharma major?

7. Which global investment-banking firm started out in 1838 as a London-based merchant-banking outfit founded by American businessman George Peabody?

8. He worked as a financial analyst at D. E. Shaw before he went on to found one of the biggest success stories on the Internet. Who are we referring to here?

9. Which global financial services giant has the adline, "A Passion to Perform"?

10. Which private equity investor recently shifted its key executives from Singapore to Mumbai reflecting the growing importance of India as an investment destination?

Answers:

1. Black-Scholes model.

2. MetLife India Insurance.

3. A strategy adopted by companies

to make themselves less attractive as

potential hostile takeover targets.

4. Dr Mark Mobius of Templeton.

5. Sensex Prudential ICICI Exchange

Traded Fund.

6. Bristol-Myers Squibb.

7. J P Morgan.

8. Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com

9. Deutsche Bank.

10. Warburg Pincus.

Nath Balakrishnan

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