`Investors are prepared to take risk today'
Polaris collected over Rs 1800 crore for an issue size of Rs 92 crore or an oversubscription of 20 times. Polaris will be returning the money to the unlucky investors, but Ekambaram expects investors to return to the primary market in large numbers.

How to make money in a bear and bull phase
In the short run stocks are wildly volatile and in the long run, they are no more risky than gilt and money market funds. If you need your money in the next three years, you should not put a significant portion of your wealth in the stock market.

The market is bullish, but apply your own yardstick
The panic-like situation in the bourses on Thursday served well to remind investors that they indeed can neither let their guard down any time, nor choose scrips in any gross sense.