Investments & Personal Finance Articles

Seven axioms for investors

Posted by Mr. PURNA P 16 October 2007 6318 Views

For starters, it is a good policy to diversify investments across a few industry sectors to insulate against vagaries of business cycles.Retail investors must understand that the present frenzy on stock markets is largely confined to big companies, a

Sensex from 1k to 19k : History

Posted by Aisha 16 October 2007 7103 Views

1000, July 25, 1990 On July 25, 1990, the Sensex touched the magical four-digit figure for the first time and closed at 1,001 in the wake of a good monsoon and excellent corporate results. 2000, January 15, 1992 On January 15, 1992, the Sensex crosse

Seven habits of highly effective equity investors

Posted by CA Nikita 13 October 2007 5709 Views

Retail investors must understand that the present frenzy on stock markets is largely confined to big companies, and that the high prices are due to massive FII (foreign institutional investor) buying in large companies, cautions Mr Kanu Doshi, a Mumb

PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS

Posted by CA. Rayan Sequeira 05 October 2007 7580 Views

PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS- AN ALTERNATIVE FUND TO FUND BUSINESS. The concept of "business finance" has been refined to the form it stands today from the bygone "Baniyas' System", where investment needs of business were funded through pledge of personal pr

How stocks market work??

Posted by CA Nikita 02 October 2007 7742 Views

It was autumn, and the Red Indians on the remote reservation askedtheir New Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild. Since hewas a Red Indian chief in a modern society, he couldn't tell what theweather was going to be. Nevertheless, to be on

Closed ended fund a better bet!!

Posted by CA Nikita 28 September 2007 5968 Views

Better `closed' September, 27th 2007 The market regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) is rightly concerned about the mushrooming New Fund Offers (NFOs) by mutual fund houses in India which have been receiving enthusiastic response f

DERIVATIVES -BASICS TYPES AND USES

Posted by jatin 27 September 2007 239858 Views

Roughly about seven years ago NSE , one of the leading stock exchanges in India(other includes BSE) inaugurated the trading in Derivatives .Though there were initial hesitation amongst Indian investors with respect to these supposedly new financial

What's short-selling of shares

Posted by CMA Gul S 21 September 2007 6284 Views

What is short-selling? Short-selling, in the context of the stock market, is the practice where an investor sells shares that he does not own at the time of selling them. He sells them in the hope that the price of those shares will decline, and he w

Testing Balance Sheet Strength

Posted by CA. Mohammed Yusuf 21 September 2007 8799 Views

Testing Balance Sheet Strength For stock investors, the balance sheet is an important consideration for investing in a company's stock because it is a reflection of what the company owns and owes. The strength of a company's balance sheet can be eval

Learning for Earning: Get the secrets of forex training program

Posted by Ravikumar.G 20 September 2007 5631 Views

For a trader, forex is perhaps the best place to start a trading career. And why not? Forex with all its flexibilities has proved to be the largest trading market in the world having an average daily trade of US$ 2 trillion and above. A trader with a