The Hindu Business Line : Investment Quiz

1. Name the private equity investment firm that made a pile buying into Bharti Tele-Ventures several years ago ahead of its IPO. It completed its exit last year with gains in excess of $1.5 billion.

2. Reliance Equity is the largest fund in India with assets of about Rs 5,750 crore. In the US, even small funds have asset sizes that comfortably exceed this level. Name the largest stock fund in the world.

A still from Rang De Basanti.

3. Rang De Basanti, the Aamir Khan starrer, was produced by which listed entertainment company?

4. If you track the Bolsa Index, you will keep track of the fortunes of which emerging market?

5. This company started operations as James Finlay and then set up a joint venture with its Indian partner four decades ago. In the early 1980s, James Finlay sold its stake to the Indian partner. This company has transformed itself, especially over the past ten years, aggressively pursuing acquisitions in the global market. Which company are we referring to?

6. This will be a tough nut to crack. What distinction does Browne & Company Inc enjoy in the history of stock markets?

7. Name the global consumer product major that holds a stake of about 30 per cent in Britannia Industries.

8. `Passport to Profits' is a guide to global investing. It is co-authored by one of the renowned names in emerging markets investing. Who wrote this book?

9. HDFC Mutual is one of the premier fund houses in the country. The operations of three fund houses are encompassed under the HDFC umbrella now following a series of acquisitions. Name them.

Identify him.

10. Who is the person in the accompanying photograph? He was one of the star funds managers in the 1995-2000 period. He is widely regarded as the earliest to spot the opportunity in the Indian IT sector and his asset allocation mirrored this belief with even up to 60 per cent of funds invested in stocks from this space.

He got enmeshed in a controversy as SEBI banned him three years ago from the market for a variety of reasons; this SEBI order was overturned in a higher legal forum and the restriction removed.

Answers

1. Warburg Pincus

2. Growth Fund of America; managed by the Capital group, it has assets of about $ 140 billion.

3. UTV Software

4. Mexico

5. Tata Tea

6. The oldest company to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Browne & Company was founded in 1775 and it waited for more than 200 years before floating an IPO in 1999.

7. Groupe Danone

8. Mr Mark Mobius and Mr Stephen Fenichell

9. 20th Century Mutual, ITC Threadneedle and Zurich India Mutual.

10. Mr Samir Arora, formerly Chief Investment Officer of Alliance Capital, which has been acquired by Birla Sun Life Mutual.

Compiled by S. Vaidya Nathan