FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

A fund manager is a part of the investment team at a fund house and one of the most important persons responsible for building the portfolio, monitoring it, generating returns and ensuring it runs in line with the objectives and mandate of the fund.

The criteria for exit would apply to only those stocks which have completed at least six months from the month of entry into the derivative segment. while for existing stocks in the derivatives segment, the exit criteria on the basis of performance ...

Gang leaders in North India are increasingly using social media to recruit women interested in crime, playing multifaceted roles from honey-trapping targets to executing reconnaissance and participating in lethal operations. This trend is credited t...

Shares of JM Financial declined by 5% to Rs 83 during Friday's intraday trading on the BSE. This drop followed a decision by the markets regulator SEBI on Thursday, confirming interim measures to prohibit the company from serving as a lead manager f...

SEBI confirmed restrictions on JM Financial, barring it from leading debt issuances until 2025. The firm also pledged to discontinue its subsidiary's IPO financing business.

Overseas investors are flocking to Indian assets through a derivative product ahead of government bond inclusion in the JPMorgan index, accounting for 30% of $10 billion flows into local debt in nine months.

The retail trading landscape in India is evolving with the rise of individual investors empowered by technology and access to information. The number of demat accounts surpassed 100 million in 2024, with a significant portion attributed to individua...

The trading volumes shot up today as markets found their nerve following a disastrous Tuesday session with the headline index Nifty settling at 21,884.50, down by 1,379.40 points or 5.93%.

Recently the finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about the risk of unchecked explosion of future and option trading. Before that, there was a SEBI study, which mentioned that 90 % of the individuals who trade in future and options ( F&O) end ...

HDFC Life is among the first insurers to partner with Mumbai-based Upstox, featuring its term insurance plans on the platform

The fear that the retirement corpus will not be enough comes primarily from it being small. It is also stoked by how the corpus is invested. The conservative mistake of earning years is repeated in retirement. The money is invested in debt products ...

Even the best of the rational brain can make wrong decisions when there is too much noise which gets created due to a narrative. Now for the last few days a narrative has been created that due to polls, FPI are selling. These kinds of narratives ten...

In a workshop organized on Wednesday on the implementation of insurance surety bonds (ISB) for NHAI contracts, NHAI said out of the 164 ISBs received, 20 bonds are for performance security and 144 bonds are for bid security. It is estimated that aro...

Out of these six funds, four funds will be passive funds (ETF and Index) and two will be sectoral funds. Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund has filed drafts for Motilal Oswal Nifty500 LargeMidSmall Equal-Cap Weighted Index Fund and Motilal Oswal Nifty India ...

Tax benefits can be denied on issue of beneficial ownership for ODIs issued abroad. Treaty abuse conditions don't apply to ODIs issued in IFSC.

The MIBOR, in turn, is used as a benchmark or reference for derivative products such as interest rate swaps, forward rate agreements and term deposits and certain types of debt instruments issued by firms to raise money.

"This landmark transaction marks a pivotal moment in credit risk management and underscores the growing sophistication of financial instruments in the Indian market," said Parul Mittal Sinha, Head - Financial Markets, India, Standard Chartered Bank.

The choice between futures and options depends on your investment goals and risk tolerance – Both instruments can be used for hedging, but options offer more flexibility and limited risk.

A survey of over 10,000 working women aged 24-55 across metros, tier 1 and 2 cities, found that 76% want to start their own businesses. 86% want to learn and upskill themselves in financial instruments like budgeting and investing. 68% of women entr...