Investors should cut US positions, favour Europe, China, India: WoodThe US Treasury is considered among the world's top safe-haven assets, as investors usually pile up these American government bonds in time...
Cognitive biases in trading: Understanding trading psychology with four case studiesThe Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) case study involves a hedge fund founded by Nobel laureates and finance experts in 1994 to trade gl...
Don't be a missing billionaire: Know how to diversify investments to grow your moneyWhile I agree that everyone should invest in a better manner, I’m more than a little sceptical about ‘misjudging scale’, which is just a ro...
Explainer: What is the Silicon Valley Bank crisis all about? Does D-Street need to worryBear rampage saw the stock nosedive 60% in trade on Thursday and wiped out over $80 billion of its market value.Not only the shares, but ev...
Watch out for excesses, that's what will eventually stop this bull runIn India, are in for trouble or do we actually have an opportunity at hand? Let me answer that question with a line of Paulo Coelho’s saint...
View: The blow-up of Archegos Capital has a few lessons for IndiaIn India, there wasn’t much of a reaction at all. Archegos owner Bill Hwang lost his fortune, and a couple of banks posted a few billion do...
IIFL Asset Management appoints Manoj Shenoy as CEOIIFL Asset Management (IIFL AMC) has appointed Manoj Shenoy as its chief executive officer with effect from February 2, 2021, said a statem...
L&T Finance Holdings dissolves Middle East subsidiaryOn July 17, LTFH had informed about voluntary winding-up of one of its wholly-owned subsidiary incorporated in Dubai to carry on the off-sh...
L&T Finance Holdings to wind up Dubai wealth management businessIn early July, L&TFH informed that the share purchase agreement (SPA) with Proud Securities and Credits Pvt Ltd (an NBFC firm forming a par...
IIFL Wealth Finance buys L&T Capital Markets for Rs 230 croreThe company had announced the deal in August 2019.
Is goldilocks moment too good to be true?It is an irritating way to describe ideal conditions for markets and the economy.
Returns may be biggest worry for investors in 2015Indian investors have one reason to worry and that is about the pace of government reforms and economic growth.
Derivatives, debt are the needles of financeAIG was brought to the brink of bankruptcy by its activities in credit default swaps (CDS, a form of credit insurance).
- Fed may find more firms at its door
With the $85 billion bailout of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company, the US government has spent $900 billion this year in taking ov...
- US govt spends $900 bn to take over failing companies
When the going is good for private companies they rake in the profits, but when things get rough taxpayers' money is used to bail them out....
- Citi turns to Stuckey for subprime bailout
Citigroup named Richard Stuckey to manage most of its $43 billion of subprime mortgage assets, choosing the same executive who nine years a...
- Yen keeps you on the edge
The current strengthening of the Japanese yen against most currencies has resulted in investors scurrying to exit ‘carry trades’, which is ...