Online trading in India actually began way back in the late 1990s with the likes of ICICI Direct and Sharekhan among the early pioneers in the online trading business. The online trading business has traversed a long way and it gradually becoming the default mode of trading in the Indian markets. More and more retail

20 years back, the most talked about unlisted companies were the likes of Godrej and TCS. Even Wipro had remained unlisted for a long time. Even today, there is a lot list of companies that are not yet listed and are yet to tap the capital markets. Here is a partial list of famous companies

A Non Resident Indian has multiple account opening choices in India. Banks offer special account facilities like the NRE account, NRO account and the FCNR account. Each of them has their unique features and their unique applications. NRO account is deemed to be at par with resident account and hence it carries the benefits of

With the introduction of exchange traded currency futures market, the currency trading in India is literally open to all with limited entry barriers. If you are a starter, how do you approach currency markets? Obviously, all the pairs and currencies may be sounding like Greek and Latin to you. What you must do is to

In the last few years the CPSE ETF has emerged as a major tool of investing indirectly in the public sector enterprises. Additionally, it is also a tool for supporting the government divestment program and the government has set aggressive targets of nearly Rs.105,000 crore in the current fiscal too. But what exactly is this

Options are simple products if you don’t complicate it too much. Let us look at a quick tutorial at how a beginner should go about trading in options. The learning process is the most important aspect here. Most investors tend to be wary of options as they consider them to be high risk products. As

Mr Rahul Arora, an Indian born US citizen wanted to invest in an Indian mutual fund scheme and was looking at various brokers and firms online and offline. He was told off that fund houses do not accept investments from Non resident people who reside in the US. The NRI trading community is clueless and finding it

Barring a few hiccups notwithstanding, India is heading for lower interest rates on Bank Deposits for years to come, if not for decades. If one steps out of their economic comfort zone into the real life of savers, a huge amount of damage will already be done. A measly 2 to 3.5% on the savings

For a long time, the only investments that NRIs participated in India were the NRE and FCNR deposits. These were deposit accounts offering substantially higher rates of interest compared to what they would earn in any of the Western or even in the Middle Eastern countries. This arbitrage kept them interested. In the last few

Hedging is the protection of risk. While any investor in the stock market is exposed to a variety of risks like the price risk, macro risk, company risk etc, NRIs have an additional risk to worry about and that is the currency risk. Most NRIs earn in dollars or Euros or Dirham and convert it