What are Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)? FIIs are overseas entities registered in India and allowed to invest in the Indian stock markets. FII money forms a big part of the overall pie of investment in Indian stocks. FII money is often termed as ‘hot money’ as FIIs buy/sell a large number of shares in Indian…
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Earning Fixed Rate of Interest in Stock Markets
The fact that money lying in trading accounts does not earn any interest income is often a big problem for those who trade in multiple trading accounts, particularly asset managers, stock-brokers and their authorized persons who may not be able to transfer funds between client accounts and their trading account on a short notice. This…
What do Credit Rating Agencies do?
“Credit rating agency Moody’s has assigned a ‘Baa3’ rating to India, with a stable outlook”. You must have read/heard this news. Do these AAAs, Baa3s, Cas, CCCs make any sense to you? Just like a school report card, these grades serve as a marking system /score card designed to inform interested parties about the creditworthiness…
How Stock Picking Became My Full Time Business
Today when I look around, I see thousands of opportunities in India. Anyone born in this era should realize how fortunate he is to be born at a time when coffee costs Rs. 150 and it takes an average of 15 minute to be served a takeaway. To not capitalize on the opportunity the market…
Marketing Gimmicks-Be Careful and Avoid the Bad Stock
For years I struggled to find out why some companies which cater to a small group of buyers use expensive mode of television commercials to market their products. Imagine a company which manufactures train engines coming out with a commercial: “Our engines get you their faster”, fair enough and I am sure they do. Now,…
Fundamental Analysis to Reach Your Investment Goals
I am sure that many of you have heard about Fundamental Analysis, or fundamental view in the context of stock picking. Sometime back, I released a video explaining the concept of Investment Fundamental Analysis where I spoke about financial facts and qualitative opinions and concluded that “The standing of an enterprise is in part a…
Price Earnings Ratio Method–Standalone and consolidated Methodology
The Price Earnings Ratio Method is one of the most basic and widely used methods for valuing companies. In this approach, the price of a company’s share listed on an exchange is divided by its reported Earnings Per Share (“EPS”). The Price to Earnings Ratio thus derived is compared with the industry PE Ratio to…
Fixed Income vs. Equity Investment: How Does Your Money Make Money After All?
There are only two ways in which money making is done: Hard work makes money Money makes money Investing is the art of employing money to multiply it. Those in need of capital for setting up, or for expanding a business are always willing to pay some premium for the much needed capital. Their hope…
What is Corporate Debt Restructuring (CDR)?
Corporate Debt Restructuring (CDR) Meaning Corporate Debt Restructuring (“CDR”) mechanism is a voluntary non statutory mechanism under which financial institutions and banks come together to restructure the debt of companies facing financial difficulties due to internal or external factors, in order to provide timely support to such companies. Corporate Debt Restructuring (CDR) The intention behind…
Explanation of Basic Economic Terms Used in India
In the United States more than 50% of their population invests in the stock markets (directly or via ownership of funds). In India, this figure is less than 2.5%. Ironically, India remains the fastest growing market for financial newspapers in the world. Does that mean that people want to research and stay updated but not invest?…
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