India ETF’s outside India
Talking about the few ETFs that are available in India at present got me thinking about India ETFs available to investors overseas. Here is a reasonably complete list. The total amount invested in these is about USD 10 billion, roughly half of what Indian investors...
A hiccup in the US repo market
Savvy market participants in the US are pointing to a recent injection of about $53 billion by the Federal Reserve into the “repo” market. What is this repo market? Repo is short for repurchase. These are extremely short-term (overnight, a few days, a week)...
Price reaction to market information.
There is a broader message in the YES bank posts, that have appeared many times in the blog. It is symptomatic of how its price has moved up and down in reaction to information that comes out from the company, the regulator, its analysts, To this, you can add today’s...
More mental accounting
(This post continues the discussion from a previous post: https://ccmrm.org/mental-accounting/) This post addresses a different scenario. Instead of the dilemma created by that impulse credit card purchase, suppose you got an unexpected bonus or a tax refund. We tend...
Final word on Yes Bank.
The YES bank story is still unfolding. I was wrong, there are cockroaches in more places than I had thought. Many more companies to whom YES has lent may default, especially if an economic downturn is impending. Evidence of sizable call writing positions, hundreds of...
A Demat scam from the early 2000’s
I read about an IPO scams from the early 2000’s. This was a time before KYC norms were in place, requirement for identity proof, address proofs, were all still being formalized. Here is what I can piece together. Step 1: Create multiple bank accounts. One enterprising...
Mental accounting
This post expands further on the conversation in the video about keeping money in different boxes, or buckets. Like us, many financial planners recommend that you have a) an emergency fund of upto 6 months of expenses; b) a school fund for your children; c) a savings...
Call For Papers- 2019 Summer Research Conference, Center for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business
25 Jul 2019 - 26 Jul 2019, ISB Campus, Hyderabad, India The Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India, invites submissions for its flagship Summer Research Conference in Finance. The conference will be held at ISB...
Call For Papers- Journal Special Issue: “Artificial Intelligence for Behavioral Finance”
The Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance (JBEF) calls for paper submissions for a special issue titled "Artificial intelligence for behavioral finance". This special issue will focus on the actual and potential application of the techniques of artificial...
IIM Calcutta-NYU Stern India Research Conference at NYU Stern
Conference date 11 Oct 2019 Location NYU Stern School, New York, NY Description Call For Papers IIM Calcutta-NYU Stern India Research Conference at NYU Stern Friday, October 11, 2019, Kose John and Ashok Banerjee, Organizers CO-HOSTS: The Financial Research and...
JFMMI Conference 2019 on “Research Developments in Banking and Finance Ten Years after the Financial Crisis”
Conference date 12 Sep 2019 Location Turin (IT) Description The Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions (https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jfmmi) and ADEIMF, the Italian Association of Scholars of Economics and Management of Financial...
12th Annual Hedge Fund Research Conference
Conference dates 16 Jan 2020 - 17 Jan 2020 Location Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris Description Call for Papers 12th Annual Hedge Fund Research Conference Liquidity, Risk, Incentives, and Performance Paris, January 16-17, 2020 Organizers: Serge Darolles (Université...
Call for Papers – Nova SBE-BPI Asset Management Conference
Conference date 11 Oct 2019 Location Nova School of Business & Economics, Carcavelos, Portugal Description In cooperation with BPI, the Nova Finance Center from Nova SBE organizes an academic conference on Asset Management. The main objective of the conference is...
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Conference dates 13 Dec 2019 - 14 Dec 2019 Location Bangalore, Karnataka, India Description SVKM’s NMIMS, Bangalore Campus, in collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society, is pleased to announce the 2nd edition of its International Conference on Economics and...
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Financial Research Association
Conference dates 07 Dec 2019 - 08 Dec 2019 Location Las Vegas, Nevada Description Call For Papers The 16th Annual Meeting of the Financial Research Association December 7 and 8, 2019, Encore at Wynn, Las Vegas, Nevada http://www.fraconference.com Submissions Begin:...
Revisiting the BRICS
The topic on diversification mentions the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) as places that Western money once moved toward. It was nearly 18 years ago and the chart below reproduces the performance of exchange-traded funds (ETF) that were created to make equity...
Of Real Estate, India and elsewhere.
Indian real estate investment has made so many people so wealthy in urban and rural India over the years, that any criticism of its rewards are met with disbelief. This post is a follow up to the conversations in the video. The focus is not what this investment has...
Orphaned life insurance policies
The video and deep dives on life insurance talk about the aggressive manner in which life insurance policies are marketed. Typically, over 50% of all life insurance policies are sold by about 2 million agents, with the rest directly sold by the banks. There are over 2...
GN Bajpai’s Book
A book released in 2018 titled “A Game Changer’s Memoir,” recounts the events that occurred at SEBI during the tenure of its Chairman, GN Bajpai during 2002-2005. Most of you are never going to read it, it is after all a story of how pro-active and effective the...
YES BANK-PART III: Why I don’t give financial advice
On a Friday after market close and before the long weekend at the end of April 2019, comes an earnings pre-announcement from YESBANK. This is the “kitchen-sink” announcement that I thought had happened a quarter ago. The new CEO is cleaning house, wants a fresh slate....
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