Author: TJ Ravishankar

The holding company structure has for years been an immensely attractive option as a control strategy in building a Business Group with varied businesses under its belt. A pure holding company’s legal character was not a problem until regulation decided otherwise. While this probably forces a Hobson’s choice on such a holding company structure, the alternative of an using an operating company as a holding company, long an established reality in India, will see ‘renewed’ growth.

Whether you are a manager, investor, policy maker, or analyst some hue or the other, scenario analyses is part of your job portfolio. Analyses not just analysis, because the world is open to multiple interpretations, some credible, some beguiling. Since ‘analysing data’ has become easier and faster with some AI agent, as even Excel too will be embedded with AI, the job of all these professionals has more to do with building scenarios. How AI can assist you is really a function of the breadth of your thinking.