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Answers to the Strategist quiz (#497)
Strategy Quiz (#497) answers
The Strategist Quiz (#498)
The Strategist Quiz, February 15, 2017
 "The Strategist Quiz (#498)")
Key deals last week
Key deals last week
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Blackstone looks to exit through multiple Reits
The PE major and its joint venture partners are planning Reits for office assets
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Shrinking jobs: How automation compounds IT firms' visa woes
TCS, Infosys and others are banking on automation to protect their turf in the US
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Common Budget leaves railways in a bind
With freight and passenger traffic dwindling, the transition could not have come at a worse time
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Arpwood Capital grabs second spot in M&A firms' league
Four-yr-old boutique firm, led by Rajeev Gupta, helped Essar Oil seal deal with Rosneft for $12.9 bn
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Ashok Leyland sets its sights higher as Nissan JV ends
The automaker has set a target to increase its market share to 30 per cent from 22 per cent today
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Rebuilding trust in NSE
Limaye said he would look at opportunities to expand NSE's business footprint through new products
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Rs 3,700-cr scam unravelled: How a social media biz got 'unliked' in Noida
Multiple agencies are investigating a business built around Facebook likes
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Top five PE deals in January
The top five deals this year accounted for 67.40% of the total investment in terms of value
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Property funds turn to affordable segment
Kotak Realty Fund was looking at launching an affordable housing fund: Sources
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Tower M&As riding on data growth prospects
Telcos need to continuously invest in data networks to improve tenancy for tower firms
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Shipping faces rough seas ahead
As coal imports shrink in India, shipping companies are losing their bargaining power with customers
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Public sector does the rescue act
Indeed, PSUs are known to put their foot down if an unviable decision is forced on them
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ArthVeda raises $250 mn from Qatar Holdings
The fund is looking at an internal rate of return of over 18-21%
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Piramal in JV talks with CDPQ arm for realty PE fund
Joint venture to set up fund with corpus of $250 million
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Cloud over off-market deals
Such activities may have to forgo benefit of zero long-term capital gains tax
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As cars become sophisticated, garages face tech challenge
Complex computer codes control dozens of functions in new vehicles
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Newsmaker: Vinod Rai, batting on a perilous pitch
Rai has a job that is as arduous and taxing, if not more so, as the CAG's job
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