Finance continuum, dated 31st July started off with a very
eminent speaker Mr. Govind Sankaranarayanan, CFO & COO- Tata Capital
Mr.
Sankarnarayanan started by highlighting on per capita income of India then
comparing with U.S.A. He explained stagnation of U.S per capita income since
1980’s there hasn’t been much change. Whereas in India there has been a drastic
change in terms of GDP and per capita income from past decade. He also talked
about investment pattern in India is very rigid. People are more saving
oriented than western counterparts. He segmented investments into two such as
physical assets which include private shares, bonds around 35% and gold and all
metals assets about 65%.
After
discussing about merits of financing, the speaker emphasized on long term
consequences of finance. He went into checked globalization from European
countries so that it doesn’t led to crisis like in west.
He even
went further on extent of financiers’ dead to subsidy, penalization on savers,
productive use of capital, check on default rate ex Andhra Pradesh nobody was
allowed to hold more than one loan, identification of risks
Mr. Govind
S. even showed his interest in entrepreneurship of young Indians coming ahead.
He summoned that government should focus on infrastructure and it should
increase its faith in new investors. He talked about leveraging of loans in
India and we as Indians are not averse to risk taking abilities. He also gave
example of U.S. that how even in meltdown and crisis situation still people did
not go to the banks for their money. |