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Overview of a Financial System

Before we discuss in detail the various instruments available in the financial market and their role and significance in personal financial planning, it would be helpful to have a brief overview of the financial system in India.

 

The Financial System Consists of Financial Market Segments, Players in the Financial Markets and Financial Instruments 

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Insurance

How an actuary buys Insurance?

Trent Hamm runs a personal finance blog by the name "The Simple Dollar". The Simple Dollar is for people fighting debt and bad spending habits while building a financially secure future and still affording a latte or two. Our busy lives are crazy enough without having to compare five hundred mutual funds - we just want simple ways to manage our finances and save a little money.

In the following post, (http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/06/07/interesting-insights-into-life-insurance-from-an-actuary-how-he-would-buy-life-insurance/) Trent recounts his meeting with his PhD in Maths and Actuary friend who works in a big Insurance firm about the amount of insurance one should buy.

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Editor's Choice

Growing Opportunity for Investment Banks in Emerging Markets

As gloom besets capital markets in the developed world, the prospects of emerging ones continue to shine.

The credit crunch that erupted in mid-2007 has already taken many new twists in the first half of 2008. But new McKinsey research shows that, amid the general uncertainty, the outlook for investment banking in emerging markets remains relatively bright. Full report by Mckinsey

 

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Stocks
Strategy to adopt for picking up stocks in a volatile market E-mail

In this volatile market, what should you do as an investor? What strategy to adopt while picking up stocks?

 

The equity markets have been in a volatile mode since last few quarters. Most of the retail investors have been stranded with long positions, after the massive fall in the month of January. Since then their participation in the equity markets has been very low. The reason behind this is that most of the investors are confused in which way the market will head because of the high volatility.

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Updates on Stock Markets as on August 25, 2008 E-mail

The market moved in to a bit of a corrective mode recently with higher inflation numbers coming out week after week and also due to some amount of bounce in crude prices once again, which breached the USD 120 per barrel mark recently. The bearish stance of the FIIs on Indian equities also weighed on the market. FIIs, until now, have been net sellers in equities by around Rs 1000 crore in August. Mutual Funds too have been net sellers in equities in August by a little less than Rs 1000 crore as per figures available on August 22. 


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Smart Traders make Rs 1000 crore in a month; Under SEBI scanner E-mail
Raghu had blogged about the Friday sale of 4% equity in Reliance Petroleum on his blog . This fact has bought RPL under the SEBI scanner and Raghu sincerely hopes that these sharks are taken to task for such dubious acts which ruin the stability of the market.

Mint  has carried an article on this and also the so called Smart Traders, who are a hoax group, also made it to the news in Financial Express

Read on to read how this group made Rs 1000 crores within a month!
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The Great Indian Stock Market E-mail
Rajesh Soni is a Chartered Accountant and an avid blogger at his blog, Investment Guru. He is passionate about investing in stocks and he has amazing insights on the fundamental analysis of companies and especially on IPOs. The following has his insights into some common questions which all of us have on the Great Indian Stock Market
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Find growth in little known stocks E-mail

Mudar Patherya writes on four little known gems in his own inimitable way in Business Standard.

 

M’lawd, I plead guilty to the charge that I remain incorrigibly penny stock-chasing even after successive market meltdowns where they have decimated in value.
 
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