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Deal Flow IQ is an intelligence briefing for professionals of the mid market finance ecosystem. Briefings that are a long-term reference for those who spend time allocating, advising on, or operating with capital. Click to read Dealflow IQ, a Substack publication.
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India Manufacturing Is the Hottest Theme for Investors And Yet the Capital Is Splitting Three Ways
India manufacturing has become one of the most crowded ideas in finance. In the past two years alone, India-focused private equity fundraising has surged, venture investors have set up a $1 billion deep-tech alliance around strategic manufacturing, and po
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Where Do India's IPO-bound Founders Come From?
India's startup story has taken away the attention from the entrepreneurial class that builds IPO-able companies. These founders don't look like the glamorous Bangalore-based tech founders in hoodies with their sleek devices. So, what do they look like?Th
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Why One Fund Manager Moved All His PMS Clients Into AIF Category III
A fund manager recently told us something interesting. He had moved most of his PMS clients into an AIF Category III structure. On paper, that sounds counterintuitive. Moving clients away from PMS can create tax events. It can disrupt existing portfolios.
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The Bond of Power and the Power of Bonds
Here's something they don't teach at the Oxbridge PPE programmes that produce most British Prime Ministers: you don't actually get to govern unless the bond market lets you.Not the House of Commons. Not your cabinet. Not the press lobby, your internal fac
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Gold vs Oil: The Commodity War Beneath the Geopolitical War
Every geopolitical conflict triggers two markets.One prices physical disruption.The other prices loss of trust.Oil captures the first.Gold captures the second.When conflict expands, oil surges because supply chains fracture. Tankers reroute. Insurance pre
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GCCs Are Here to Stay
Global Capability Centers, or GCCs, are company owned teams in India that support global operations. For a long time, they were misinterpreted as back offices, a way to get work done at lower cost. However, data suggests a different story. It shows that G
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Is 2026 Set to Be the Biggest Churn Year Yet for Wealth Leadership?
It is common to hear about senior professionals from wealth management switching companies - Motilal to Nuvama, Barclays to UBS. It is a response to one core reality, wealth management is a relationship driven business and here, experienced wealth manager
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India's Retail Equity Boom Needs a Product Innovation and SEBI's Messaging Signals It
India, on every conventional metric like participation, execution efficiency, digital access, Indian markets have transformed. Retail ownership has crossed thresholds once considered aspirational. Trading volumes are at historic highs. Technology and sett
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Did you miss the silver rally?
Popular daily, Gujarat Mirror surfaced that at least 44 trading firms have become insolvent by being on the wrong side of the trade with silver. They have accumulated losses exceeding rupees 3500 crores, as per sources.Gujaratis do take big bets on their
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