Understanding shareholding pattern of a company means knowing about the buyers of the company equities or stocks. Actually, it highlights the health, reliability, and stability of the given company. It is essential for investors to know whether the company is in stable hands or hot money. Apart from promoters or original owners who established company, […]
Investment is an offer of fund by a person, who has surplus, to the person who wants it either to boost productive activities or diversify existing business. So, investing in equities and bonds are means of investment to increase value of original surplus. Understanding financial markets and financial instruments Financial markets are the arrangement in
Investment in share or stock market can’t be free from risk. Investors safeguard theirs funds from untimely stock market crash or sudden decline in prices by employing hedging in stock market trading. Also, hedging is used by multinational companies to protect theirs contracts from the sudden fall in the foreign exchange rates. Purpose of hedging
Non-securities markets include mutual funds, Fixed Deposits, post office savings, and insurance. Stocks, bonds and debentures are not part of non-securities markets. These are more safe and secure. These markets do not involve much risk. Let’s know more about non-securities markets through this article. Securities and non-securities markets In the securities market, we have learned
As we know that capital markets which is part of financial markets, is divided in securities and non-securities markets. Primary and secondary securities market are the two parts of securities market. In this blog, I’m going to explain the primary and secondary Securities market in detail. What do securities mean? For layman’s terms, securities are
An arrangement where financial securities or assets like bond equities, forex, stocks etc. are traded between investors and borrowers is termed as financial markets. Money market, capital market, stock market, forex market are the major components of financial markets. Here, I’m going to explain instruments of money markets. A well developed financial markets are prerequisite
Initial Public Offering or IPO is a process of offering shares of privately owned company to public to make it publicly traded company by registrating on the stock exchange. Transition from private to public company is done by offering ownership to public by the means of shares. In this process, fresh stock of shares of