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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 09:20 PM | November 22,2009
Some stocks at some point in time might generate a return higher than the return justified by their market risk
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 09:15 PM | November 15,2009
Your investments face systemic risk simply because they are part of the market and any macroeconomic event such as a change in interest rates or a recession that influences the market would affect your investments as well
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 10:17 PM | November 08,2009
Did you know that stock earnings consist of beta and alpha? Or there is something referred to as theta, which measures the rate of decline in the value of an “option” due to the passage of time?
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 09:44 PM | November 01,2009
Tax havens fiercely compete among themselves to attract tax evaders
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 12:22 AM | October 26,2009
A bond ladder tries to minimize the risk associated with the future movements in interest rates while creating a regular flow of money for the bond holder
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 09:01 PM | October 18,2009
The risks and rewards of growth investing are two sides of the same coin
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 09:11 PM | October 11,2009
Value investors use fundamental analysis by looking at financial statements and key ratios of a firm to know its true worth
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 12:22 AM | October 05,2009
An index fund tries to track a particular index by including all stocks belonging to that index in its portfolio in exactly the same proportion as used by that index
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Real Simple | Shailaja & Manoj K Singh 09:25 PM | September 27,2009
You must keep in mind that every asset does not appreciate in value. For instance, the value of the car you own is depreciating every day and one day it might sell at the price of scrap
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 08:58 PM | September 20,2009
After the pioneering works of economists such as John Muth and Robert E. Lucas, economic policymakers now realize that the expectations of countless number of people work just like winds
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 09:15 PM | September 13,2009
A typical penny stock is highly illiquid and stock exchanges many a time, put them in special categories such as T2T, due to small volumes and chances of price manipulation, or Z category, due to the non-fulfilment of the terms of the listing agreement
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 11:03 PM | September 06,2009
Things are bound to become even more user-friendly for institutional investors with the introduction of what we call direct market access. This was in the wish list of institutional investors for a long time
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 10:01 PM | August 30,2009
A liquidity trap is the worst possible nightmare for an economy
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 10:15 PM | August 23,2009
A dividend is a payment made by a company to shareholders out of its profits. It is the most common way for a company to share its fruits of success with its owners
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Real Simple | Shailaja and Manoj K Singh 12:14 AM | August 17,2009
The economists of the Austrian school derive their understanding by using what is called a priori thinking
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