(The views expressed in the column are the author’s own and not those of Reuters)

For any investor globally, the start of each year gives rise to renewed emotions of hope, greed, fear, expectations and the like, of the kind of returns they will make on investments.

(Nipun Mehta is a veteran private banker with many years of experience across Asia. The views expressed in the column are his own and not those of Reuters)

3972, that’s where the BSE Sensex was on Jan 2001 at the start of the decade, it’s a shade above 20,500 at the end of it in 2010, a more than fourfold rise.  Information Technology, which was the darling of investors then, gave way to the Consumption and Infrastructure story.

(Nipun Mehta is a veteran private banker with many years of experience across Asia. The views expressed in the column are his own and not those of Reuters)

By Nipun Mehta

After the Income Tax Department standardised the use of April to March as the financial year for all accounting purposes, in India the Samvat year (as opposed to the Gregorian calendar) really lost its significance except on Diwali day. But Samvat year 2066, which ended on November 4, 2010 will be remembered in Indian stock market history for several reasons.