India's snow leopard census: 718 spotted in first-ever estimation, majority roaming LadakhIndia boasts 718 snow leopards, revealed in the groundbreaking Snow Leopard Population Assessment. Ladakh leads with 477, showcasing succes...
Learn With ETMarkets: Demystifying value at risk - key to smart investment risk managementValue at Risk, or VaR, is a tool that helps investors, companies, and fund managers figure out how much money they might lose in the worst-...
IITM, Pune signs MoU with Tezpur University to assess net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide in KazirangaThe institutes will broadly collaborate in research areas such as biosphere-atmosphere exchange of green-house gases and energy, observatio...
Does faith make you live better?As individuals age, their materialistic pursuits tend to yield to religious beliefs and practices.Women are often inclined to be more relig...
Sporadic supply shocks may be a concern: RBI paperAccording to a paper by Michael Debabrata Patra -- the deputy governor heading the monetary policy department and also a member of the MPC ...
Faith in honesty, belief in corruptionReligiousness is defined in terms of attendance to places of worship and adherence to other religious beliefs and practices. These underlie...
'Work hard, get ahead': Is it really this simple to achieve goals in India?A 2018 Gallup World Poll survey of India asks the question, 'Can people get ahead in this country by working hard?' The answer lies in the ...
US recession after fleeting yield curve inversion? It is complicatedHere is a roundup of what some market participants think about the yield curve.
Varying expressions of interest: Do people’s funny bones have differing stimuli?We express emotions the same way, but are those triggered the same way too?
Mutual funds' exotic investment strategies: Do they work?To attract interest of investors bored with plain vanilla equity schemes, fund houses have been busy announcing NFOs based on exotic strate...
Effective investing: Use MS Excel to calculate and reduce portfolio riskUnlike returns from the portfolio, the risk of a portfolio is not a simple weighted average of the standard deviations of the individual as...
Mental health alert! Eat more of raw fruit and vegetables to feel betterThe benefits significantly reduce when the vegetables and fruits are cooked, canned or processed.
Mutual fund ratios simplifiedHere is a list of ratios that will help you analyse a mutual fund scheme.
17 high-beta stocks that more than doubled your wealth in last 1 yearOver a dozen stocks from the BSE500 pack have doubled investor wealth in 12 months. All of them have 1 thing in common; they are all high-b...
Nightmares may increase suicide risk, says studyThe relationship between nightmares & suicidal behaviours is partially mediated by a multi-step pathway via defeat, entrapment & hopelessne...
Ten tools for analysing mutual funds to invest smartlyThese statistics can help you understand what’s under the hood of a mutual fund.
30 years ago, Warren Buffett gave away the secret to good investing and correctly predicted no one would listenMany think Warren Buffett was a simple "buy-and-hold" stock investor, but his investing is actually about way more than that.