Reference No: F&A0533Pages: 38Published on: 31, March, 2016
Abstract: In February 2015, Suzlon had just completed its financial and asset restructuring, following financial default after rapid growth through debt financed acquisitions in the financial boom ending in 2008. The restructuring resulted in a significant decrease in the promoter’s equity stake. Suzlon now has to decide how to respond to an ... More
Reference No: F&A0530Pages: 9Published on: 30, March, 2016
Abstract: The case focuses on the key choices and decision issues that entrepreneurs face in the fast evolving mode of startup funding, known as 'crowdfunding'. It is centred around three products which vary significantly on many dimensions such as the level of innovativeness, risk, social good generated by the product, and ... More
Reference No: F&A0528Pages: 26Published on: 23, February, 2016
Abstract: In 2013-14, the Indian government issued Inflation Indexed Bonds for institutional investors and Inflation Indexed National Savings Securities for retail investors. The immediate trigger for the issue of inflation indexed securities was the coincidence of an increase in trade deficit, an increase in gold imports and a period of high ... More
Reference No: F&A0527Pages: 38Published on: 18, January, 2016
Abstract: Greenko is a renewable power generating company investing in biomass, small and medium hydro power and wind power projects. It was projected to achieve 1GW (Giga Watt=1000 Mega Watt) of installed capacity by March 2015. The company has been financing its projects with debt from Indian banks and financial institutions on ... More
Reference No: F&A0526Pages: 40Published on: 29, December, 2015
Abstract: Arvind Mills incurred a loss of Rs.316 crores in the year 1999-2000 after a period of declining profits in spite of increasing sales. In January 2001 lenders to Arvind Mills received the Information Memorandum on Debt Restructuring which offered several alternative schemes. They had to decide whether they should accept the ... More
Reference No: F&A0518Pages: 8Published on: 1, December, 2015
Abstract: The case presents a context of irrational pricing in a stock and demonstrates the possible role of investor heuristics operating in the financial markets. The case is ideal in a course on behavioral finance to teach topics like the limits to arbitrage or the influence of various heuristics in financial ... More