Foreign exchange market
Investorline The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a global, worldwide decentralized financial market for trading currencies. Financial centers around the world function as anchors of trading between…
Who Manages Mutual Fund’s Investor’s Money?
This is the role of the Asset Management Company (the Third tier). Trustees appoint the Asset Management Company (AMC), to manage investor’s money. The AMC in return charges a fee…
Commodities exchange
A commodities exchange is an exchange where various commodities and derivatives products are traded. Most commodity markets across the world trade in agricultural products and other raw materials (like wheat,…
Agricultural marketing
Agricultural marketing covers the services involved in moving an agricultural product from the farm to the consumer. Numerous interconnected activities are involved in doing this, such as planning production, growing…
Fuel price risk management
A specialization of both financial risk management and oil price analysis – and similar to conventional risk management practice – fuel price risk management is a continual cyclic process that…
Commodity risk
Commodity risk refers to the uncertainties of future market values and of the size of the future income, caused by the fluctuation in the prices of commodities. These commodities may…
Variable cost
Variable costs are expenses that change in proportion to the activity of a business. Variable cost is the sum of marginal costs over all units produced. It can also be…
WHAT IS AN NFO?
Once the 3 – tier structure is in place, the AMC launches new schemes, under the name of the Trust, after getting approval from the Trustees and SEBI. The launch…
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF A REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENTS?
Registrars and Transfer Agents (RTAs) perform the important role of maintaining investor records. All the New Fund Offer (NFO) forms, redemption forms (i.e. when an investor wants to exit from…
WHO IS A CUSTODIAN?
A custodian’s role is safe keeping of physical securities and also keeping a tab on the corporate actions like rights, bonus and dividends declared by the companies in which the…