The Hindu Business Line : Investment Quiz

3. Who is the author of `Hedgehogging', which, as the name suggests, deals with the world of hedge funds, investment strategies that are high on leverage and the roller coaster experience of investors in such funds?

4. Name the financial services group owned by renowned investor Nemish Shah?

5. This company is `In Business for Life' and is called `DNA by the Bay.' It has blazed an unmatched trail in biotechnology and was chosen as the `Best Employer' by Fortune magazine recently. In the past couple of weeks, it has also been in the limelight for the expensive pricing of a cancer-treatment drug; it plans to charge $1,00,000 a year for a patient. Which company are we referring to?

6. Which player in the liquor space owns Rampur Distillery, the largest in India?

7. ViiV aims to capitalise on the explosion of cutting edge entertainment products, such as the iPod and game consoles. What is ViiV?

8. India Cements triggered the wave of consolidation in the Indian cement industry since the late-1990s when it acquired an Andhra Pradesh-based company. It paid a fancy price for this acquisition, which landed it in deep trouble due to mounting debt. It has emerged on the recovery path over the past couple of years. Which company did India Cements buy?

9. Why is 1942 significant in the history of the New York Stock Exchange?

Identify her

10. She joined the company as a trainee engineer in 1990, and, six years later made it to the Board of Directors. Then followed a period of tumult that pushed this company, a highly regarded one in the engineering sector, into difficult times. Over the past four years, it has made a remarkable comeback and is now going from strength to strength. She has now become Chairperson. Who is this person featured in the accompanying photograph?

Answers

1.Google.

2.Reliance Polypropylene and Reliance Polyethylene.

3.Barton Biggs, former Chief Global Strategist of Morgan Stanley and now head of Traxis Partners, which manages a hedge fund launched by the investment bank.

4.Enam.

5.Genentech.

6.Radico Khaitan

7.Intel's new entertainment chip technology

8.Raasi Cements.

9.The number of stocks listed on the NYSE overtook the number of bonds for the first time since 1874; it has stayed that way ever since.

10.Meher Pudumjee, Chairperson of Thermax.

Compiled by S. Vaidya Nathan