Basics
-
NSE Bulk Deals – India Equity Market 23rd Aug, 2010
Bulk deal is a stock trading where stock quantities buy or sell by an investor is more then 0.5% of total number of equity shares of the company listed at India stock exchanges.
In year 2004 SEBI bring more transparency to the bulk deals by making is compulsory for stock exchanges to publish intraday bulk deals at the end of the trading day.
Below are current bulk deals at National Stock Exchange of India (NSE):
-
The ingredients that contributed to the European crisis are many:
■ Slow-growing, unproductive and uncompetitive economies.
■ Low birthrates and aging populations. (“In the 1950s there were seven workers for every retiree in advanced economies. By 2050, the ratio in the European Union will drop to 1.3 to 1.” – New York Times, May 23)
■ Generous benefits and social services; cradle-to-grave safety nets.
■ Extensive vacations and strict limits on the work week… -
INTRODUCTION TO HEDGE FUNDS
Hedge funds are difficult to define. The category has a startling variety of investment styles, instruments, strategies, fee schemes
and other characteristics. Yet, these generalities apply:• Hedge funds tend to be private, that is, shares do not trade publicly.
• They tend to be illiquid – investors are not free to take out capital at will.
• They tend to be exempt from many of the regulations and taxes imposed on other investment vehicles.
• They tend to be flexible and to speculate in a wide variety of instruments.
• They tend to use leverage, that is, to borrow in order to boost returns.
• Their managers tend to be extremely well paid. They reap sometimes outlandish amounts, even when they don’t succeed. These fees are quite controversial.
-
Various types of asset allocation
IN THE uncertain world of finance, we know that systematic investment and sticking to your asset allocation hold the key to success. But wealth management experts use asset allocation strategies not only to create wealth, but also to protect it during volatile times. It is not the maximisation of returns, but optimisation of returns that becomes the goal of money managers. Asset allocation strategy has to be reviewed continuously. This process plays a key role in determining the risk and return from your portfolio…
-
EIGHT KEY RATIOS FOR PICKING GOOD STOCKS
ploughback. Dividend is that portion of a company’s profits which is distributed to its shareholders, whereas ploughback is the portion that the company retains and gets added to its reserves. The figures for ploughback and reserves of any company can be obtained by a cursory glance at its balance sheet and profit and loss account.
-
MARKET REVIEW 4th Mar, 2010
Key benchmark indices ended slightly lower after witnessing intraday volatility, ending three-day winning streak. Fears of rise in interest rates following rise in food inflation weighed on the sentiment. Weak global cues also played spoilsport after strong gains on the domestic bourses over the past three trading session. Firm global stocks had aided the rally on the domestic bourses recently….
-
INFLATION & DEFLATION
Cash inflation is an excessive increase in the money supply of a given economy, which results in a rise in the general level of prices over time. It may also refer to a rise in the prices of a specific set of goods or services. In either case, it is measured as the annualized percentage rate of change of a price index such as the CPI.
-
MANGALAM CEMENT LIMITED (ANAGRAM)
To read the full report: MANGALAM CEMENT
-
RETURN ON ASSETS
The Return on Assets (RoA) ratio is a measure of profitability of a company relative to its total assets (which includes share capital plus all its short-term and long-term loans). It tells us how effectively and efficiently a company’s management is utilising its assets to generate a profit.
-
Happy New Year – 2010
.
Dear User,Wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous New Year 2010.
With regards,
webtutorials4u.com Team -
BANKING SECTOR
Banking is “accepting, for the purpose of lending or investment of deposits of money from the public, repayable on demand or otherwise and withdrawable by cheques, draft, order or otherwise.”
Bank is defined as a person who carries on the business of banking. Banks also perform certain activities which are ancillary to this business of accepting deposits and lending.
-
HEDGING AND DIVERSIFICATION
Hedging is one of the principal ways to manage risk, the other being diversification. Diversification and hedging do not have havecost in cash but have opportunity cost. Hedging is implemented by adding a negatively and perfectly correlated asset to an existing asset. Hedging eliminates both sides of risk: the potential profit and the potential loss. Diversification minimizes risk for a given amount of return…
-
COMMODITY TRADING IN INDIA
The history of organized commodity derivatives in India goes back to the nineteenth century when the Cotton Trade Association started futures trading in 1875, barely about a decade after the commodity derivatives started in Chicago. Over time the derivatives market developed in several other commodities in India. Following cotton, derivatives trading started in oilseeds in Bombay…
-
DEMATERIALISATION
Dematerialisation is the process by which physical certificates of an investor are converted to an equivalent number of securities in electronic form and credited in the investor’s account with his Depository Participant [DP]. In order to dematerialise his certificates, an investor first has to open an account with a Depository Participant. He then has to request for the dematerialisation of his certificates by filling up a dematerialisation request form…
-
WARRANTS
A warrant, like an option, gives the holder the right but not the obligation to buy an underlying security at a certain price, quantity and future time. However, unlike an option, an instrument of the stock exchange, a warrant is issued by a company. The security represented in the warrant (usually share equity) is delivered by the issuing company instead of an investor holding the shares.
Companies will often include warrants as part of a new-issue offering to entice investors into buying the new security. A warrant can also increase a shareholder’s confidence in a stock, if the underlying value of the security actually does increase overtime.
-
S&P (STANDARD & POOR’S)
S&P owns the most important index in the world, the S&P 500 index, which is the foundation of the largest index funds and most liquid index futures markets in the world. When S&P came to India to look at market indices, they focused
upon the S&P CNX Nifty as opposed to alternative indices. They now stand behind the S&P CNX Nifty, as is evidenced by the name “S&P CNX Nifty” This is a unique occasion; S&P has never endorsed a market index before.
