Should You Buy Highest NAV Guarantee Plans?
Today a Relationship Officer from my bank visited me to educate me on how to use the surplus fund in my salary cum savings account. I actually didn’t have any expectation that he would be able to help. However, I felt that there is no harm in listening to him.
What he More >
Car Insurance: Comparing The Insurance Packages
Getting your own car insurance is very easy nowadays, especially with the multitude of insurance providers. However, the ubiquity of the options you have may sometimes become a little overwhelming, as it may cause you to become unsure of which insurance to get. To make this task less troublesome for More >
RBI: Rates, Banks and Inflation
There could not have been a more opportune time for me to write this article. With every passing day since the last year, Dr Subbarao’s job is getting increasingly tougher. With inflation still keeping up against RBI and absence of significant structural actions on Government’s part to control inflation, options More >
All about algorithmic trading
The new buzz word among the securities market enthusiasts is ALGORITHMS. Traders across the globe have been affected by the use of algorithms. Positively, if they are doing and obviously, on the negative side if they are not into it. Algo, or system trading (as is known by many in More >
IPO Note – SRS LIMITED
I have generally observed that during a bear phase in the market, companies defer their fund raising plans. I was going through the IPO column of NSE and came across 3 companies. Two of them had already announced their plans however, one, SRS Limited’s IPO will open on August 23. More >
Ban on Gender Discrimination Will Cost Women Dear?
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently ruled that from the 21st December 2012 it will be illegal for insurance companies to discriminate on the grounds of gender when calculating premiums for consumers in European countries.
It is hoped that this will spell an end to the sky high car insurance More >
Trading as a Career
If you are considering a career in finance, as many fresh B.Com, BBA & MBA graduates do, and all you have found are placements in the Financial Services sector, then maybe you have not considered a very large area of finance – the Capital Market.
Opportunities in core finance careers in More >
Should Age Determine Your Investments in Equity?
Go to google and search for “asset allocation by age”. You will get plethora of asset allocation calculators and heaps of advice on asset allocation based on your age. You will find a traditional rule of thumb repeated quite often - subtract your age from 100 and invest that percent More >
US Debt ceiling – What is it all about?
One of the most talked about news doing rounds in the world economy in the last month has been the US debt ceiling. US is the biggest economy of the world with $ 14.6 trillion of GDP. Nearest competitor China is at $ 5.8 trillion i.e less than half of More >
Open Interest – Essential Trading Tool
Many a times you would have come across statements like “Open interest in XYZ increased 20 percent”, but not many of us are comfortable with the idea of Open interest and many others confuse the same with volume. I will try to clarify this concept through this article.
First let me More >