...Awareness of Mutual Funds Among the Investors of Navsari District Keywords Mutual Funds, Investment alternatives, Investors’ perception. Dr. M. P. Desai Head, Department of Accountancy,Udhna Citizen Commerce College, Surat. Residence: 50,Niral Nivas, Ashapuri society,Vijalpore road, Navsari,396445, Gujarat. Mr. Mayur K Joshi Asst. Prof., Department of Accountancy,Udhna Citizen Commerce College, Surat. Residence: Vinay readymade, 7, shopping center,Dudhiya talav, Navsari,396445, Gujarat. ABSTRACT The financial securities include ownership securities (like shares, mutual fund units) and creditorship securities (like debentures, bonds). Ownership securities are more risky than creditorship securities. Investment decisions relating to ownership securities involve planning of investment strategies according to the extent of diversification desired by individuals. Investors can reduce risk and maximize returns by way of mutual fund investments, enjoying the expertise of professional fund management. In India, Mutual fund industry is an organised financial system, accessible to individual investors having varied needs and options. In order to identify awareness of mutual funds among the investors of Navsari District, a careful collection of primary data through questionnaire was made. Introduction Financial system comprises financial institutions, services, market and instruments. Financial institutions mobilize resources, purchase and sell instruments and render various services...
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...request, please contact: Unnayan Onneshan 16/2, Indira Road, Farmgate Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh Tell: + (880-2) 8158274, 9110636 Fax: + (880-2) 8159135 E-mail: info@unnayan.org Web: www.unnayan.org Bangladesh Economic Update, March 2013 2|P a g e Bangladesh Economic Update Volume 4, No. 3, March 2013 Economic Policy Unit Unnayan Onneshan 1. INTRODUCTION The capital market of Bangladesh is the third largest in the South Asia and one of the smallest in Asia. There are two full-fledged automated stock exchanges: Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE). After many years of operations of the exchanges, the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) was established in 1993 to regulate the businesses of the exchanges, ensure proper issuance of securities and compliance with laws and protect the interests of securities investors. The current issue of the Bangladesh Economic Update makes an attempt to understand the reasons for the continuous fall in capital market. The main reasons for failing to revive confidence amongst investors are due to...
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...Industry Profile Introduction Mutual Funds industry in India In India the cause of mutual fund industry is with the overview of the perception of mutual fund, by UTI in the year 1963. However the growth was slow, but it earlier from the year 1987 when non-UTI companies arrived the industry. In the historical period, Indian mutual fund industry had realised an affected improvement, both superiority wise as well as measure wise. Before, the control of the market had realised an ending phase. The mutual fund industry can be generally put into four phases according to the growth of the sector. Each phase is temporarily defined as under. First Phase - 1964-87 Unit Trust of India (UTI) was established on 1963 by an Act of Assembly. It was set up...
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...Kyle Stocker FIN-421 4/7/2014 Rudy Wong: Investment Advisor Rudy Wong, an investment advisor at O’Hagan Securities was in a predicament that caught him in the middle of his clients and the stock market crash of September 2008. In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had stooped to its lowest level as well as the Toronto Stock Exchange since 2003. This financial crisis led four of Wong’s clients to request urgent meetings regarding their assets and investments. All four were of different gender, age and particular needs which left Wong concerned that they all hold a risk of losing everything. He had to decide the best way to reassure all of his clients by communicating logical arguments based on their portfolios and his expertise, managing their emotions and attempting to re-establish their faith in the market despite its current situation. Wong knew that the outcome of his decisions had a great impact on his professional credibility and the interests of his clients who entrusted their life savings to Wong and O’Hagan Securities. As an investment advisor, it is Wong’s duty to help clients to optimize the allocation of their financial assets that meet the client’s particular needs. He does so by taking into account each clients financial resources and constraints as well as their short and long term goals. They are considered all purpose financial counselors who show the client how they can save money on mortgage payments, their child’s college fund, the...
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...white collar crime refers to illegal offenses that are generally committed in the business or professional setting (white collar versus blue collar jobs) to achieve financial gain. Crimes that do not involve physical violence, and that relate largely to financial matters, are often called white collar crimes. Corporate corruption is out of control for two main reasons. First, big companies are now multinational, while governments remain national. Big companies are so financially powerful that governments are afraid to take them on. It is very important to study the cause and the possible solution for the increase in numbers of white collar crime; our focus needs to shift from Blue Collar Crimes to White Collar Crimes. U.S.A spends nearly $50 billion on fighting Blue Collar Crimes, not even quarter of that amount is spent on fighting White Collar Crimes. Hardly a day passes without a new story of malfeasance. Every Wall Street firm has paid significant fines during the past decade for phony accounting, insider trading, securities fraud, Ponzi schemes, or outright embezzlement by CEOs. A massive insider-trading ring is currently on trial in New York, and has implicated some leading financial-industry figures. And it follows a series of fines paid by America’s biggest investment banks to settle charges of various securities violations. They are essentially "paper crimes" in which the perpetrator uses deceit to obtain money, property or some professional advantage. White collar crime...
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...Real Life Situation: My real life financial situation is similar to many recent college graduates. I have a mountain of debt and very little assets to show for it. Right off the back my required rate of return is one that could easily be measured against student loan debt. I know what the interest rates are on those so accounting for the life span of the loan I was able to calculate what rate of return would be needed to go with an investment as opposed to just paying off current debts. On top of debts, my situation warrants setting aside a portion of the inheritance to purchase a home. I am not a home owner and I figured the best thing to do with about 25% of the inheritance would be to purchase a home and have something in my name with little to no mortgage payments would be in my best interest. The remainder of the money would open to be invested. Investment Goals: Possibly the biggest investment goal that I have would be to secure a financially stable retirement. All of the transactions are in an attempt to grow the portfolio more and more before that time. Ideally, the account would reach a point to where I would have the option to go with safe, fixed income investments through retirement and be comfortable. Depending on the success of the portfolio it wouldn't be out of the question to retire before the age of 65. Growth stocks early on before moving to more conservative type securities. Another goal is to provide a college fund for my future children to pay for most...
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...these scenarios. Answer: Winners and the rest(High individual responsibility): - Highly global growth largely driven by emerging economies - Employers provide benefits but shift cost/risk to employees - Improved benefits for a few, but not all - Social attitude:individualism We are in this together(High collective accountability): - Medium global growth - Employers provide benefits and share cost/risk with employees - New risk-sharing pension arrangements - Social cohesion and solidarity You are on your own(Low individual responsibility): - Prolonged recession - Employers reduce benefits and shift cost/risk to employees - Acceleration of DB to DC - Minimal social security provision the value of hiring mature workers includes lower turnover rates, higher levels of employee engagement and higher skill levels particularly basic skills like math, reading and writing. Three key requirements to maximize the opportunities presented by ageing: - Effective collaboration among key stakeholders -Transformational change in thinking is required. Thinking towards incentive structures that reward long-term planning and societies that value and honour old age as a productive life phase - Integrated retirement and healthcare solutions are needed 2. What is an ‘opportunity mindset’ as opposed to a ‘challenge mindset’ as discussed in the paper summarising the World Economic Forum report? Explain with examples...
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...in we have selected five private life insurance companies, as like ICICI prudential life insurance (2000), HDFC standard life (2000), Aviva life (2002), SBI life insurance (2001), TATA life insurance (2001). They are entire companies is playing a vital role in life insurance business with motive for exist and prospective customers to provide better facilities in lives saving scheme, future security, investment plan, funds investment etc. Consequently, the public-sector company has been face towards countering the challenges posed by the entered new players in the same business. The private players have been striving to build confidence in customers and get a foothold in the markets. In competitive markets, life insurance companies come out with innovative and attractive life insurance products, and they are trying to reach customers through various techniques. The Insurance sector reforms have open in the door for private play-ers, private insurance companies in the beginning of life insurance bus-iness with public sector company (LIC). Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has allowed in private life insurance companies in...
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...structure and assess their importance. * How can you use operating leverage in your business? * · Assess the level of financial and operating risk for your business * · What factors are likely to influence your CFO's debt policy? You often hear corporate officers, professional investors, and analysts discuss a company's capital structure. You may not know what a capital structure is or why you should even concern yourself with it, but the concept is extremely important because it can influence not only the return a company earns for its shareholders, but whether or not a firm survives in a recession or depression. Sit back, relax, and prepare to learn everything you ever wanted to know about your investments and the capital structure of the companies in your portfolio! Most corporate financing decisions in practice reduce to a choice between debt and equity. The finance manager wishing to fund a new project, but reluctant to cut dividends or to make a rights issue, which leads to the decision of borrowing options. The issue with regards to shareholder objectives being met by the management in making financing decisions has come to become a major issue of recent times. This relates to understanding the concept of the agency problem. It deals with the separation of ownership and control of an organisation within a financial context. The financial manager can raise long-term funds internally, from the company’s cash flow, or externally, via the capital market, the market...
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...Chapter 1.0 Introduction & Background 1.1 Introduction: Banks are very old form of financial institution that channels excess fund from surplus unit to deficit unit in consideration of a price called interest. Banking business definitely established on a relationship of Debtor-creditor between the surplus unit called depositor and the bank and between the deficit unit called borrowers and the bank. Here, opportunity coast of money works as interest is considered the price of the credit. For the development of an economy, bank furnishes a huge contribution and modem economy can not be imagined without the service of bank. Economic development of a country requires a well organized, smooth, easy to reach and efficient saving-investment process. The function of a single bank is not limited to its geographical region only rather it has reached beyond the border of the country. So banking business has been shaped as global business and the rest other business greatly depend on the strength of banking business performance. The recent financial crisis showed many weaknesses within the on hand financial system across the world. This triggers many issues linking to the protection of banking institution against probable future non expected risks associated with periods of insecurity. Bank regulatory authorities are directly liable to evaluate the performance of each banking business to find out any flaw. Regulatory authority should have to sense any upcoming difficulties...
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...ensuring one’s financial well being. Mutual Funds have not only contributed to the India growth story but have also helped families tap into the success of Indian Industry. As information and awareness is rising more and more people are enjoying the benefits of investing in mutual funds. The main reason the number of retail mutual fund investors remains small is that nine in ten people with incomes in India do not know that mutual funds exist. But once people are aware of mutual fund investment opportunities, the number who decide to invest in mutual funds increases to as many as one in five people. The trick for converting a person with no knowledge of mutual funds to a new Mutual Fund customer is to understand which of the potential investors are more likely to buy mutual funds and to use the right arguments in the sales process that customers will accept as important and relevant to their decision. This Project gave me a great learning experience and at the same time it gave me enough scope to implement my analytical ability. The analysis and advice presented in this Project Report is based on market research on the saving and investment practices of the investors and preferences of the investors for investment in Mutual Funds. This Report will help to know about the investors’ Preferences in Mutual Fund means Are they prefer any particular Asset Management Company (AMC), which type of Product they prefer, Which Option (Growth or Dividend) they prefer or Which Investment Strategy...
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...1. Company history playback In 1975, when the Securities and Exchange Commission deregulated brokerage commissions, Charles Schwab & Co reshaped the market by charging 75% less per stock transaction than the large brokerage firms. In 1996, Schwab reached a million customers. In the same year, Schwab lunched online trading platform, which help the company to win a lot of customers. By 2004, Schwab broad the range of financial services through in three business divisions: Investor services, Institutional and U.S. Trust. 2. The alarming market situation However, from July 2004, a deepening rift began to appear between the company and the customers, which cause a decline in the profitability and market share. I would like to use SWOT to give an overview of the whole marketing situation and the running situation of the company itself at that time. From...
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...1. BANKING IN INDIA: Without a sound and effective banking system in India it cannot have a healthy economy. The banking system of India should not only be hassle free but it should be able to meet new challenges posed by the technology and any other external and internal factors. For the past three decades India's banking system has several outstanding achievements to its credit. The most striking is its extensive reach. It is no longer confined to only metropolitans or cosmopolitans in India. In fact, Indian banking system has reached even to the remote corners of the country. This is one of the main reasons of India's growth process. AXIS BANK: Axis Bank is the third largest private sector bank in India. It offers the entire spectrum of financial services to customer segments covering Large and Mid-Corporates, Agriculture, Retail Businesses, Commercial banking services which includes merchant banking, direct finance infrastructure finance, venture capital fund, advisory, trusteeship, forex, treasury and other related financial services. As on 31-Mar-2012 the Group has 1787 domestic branches (including extension counters, 10,363 automated teller machines (ATMs), the Bank also has 7 overseas branches / offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Colombo, Dubai, DIFC - Dubai and Abu Dhabi . Axis Bank was the first of the new private banks to have begun operations in 1994, after the Government of India allowed new private banks to be established. The Bank was promoted jointly...
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...America must decide whether or not it would like to advance with technology or keep their progress to a minimum. It would be wise for the organization to keep up with technology and provide services to the consumer that they may be able to find elsewhere. Bank of America must prove that they are a dependable organization and worthy of the consumers business in order to remain a top organization in their industry. Identification of the strategic issues and problems: Bank of America has been a top financial organization for some time with services such as retail banking, investment banking, and opportunities for small businesses. With the evolution of the smartphone and consumers constantly on the go the demand for mobile banking has increased excessively. Consumers would like the convenience of checking their balance while being able to transfer funds on quick notice. The underlying issues and problems that Bank of America faces are two fold. First, the organization needs to decide whether to continue advancing with technology to provide mobile banking to their consumers. This means large added costs and dependence on consumer usage. Next, Bank of America must earn the trust of the consumers and then convert them from on-site or online bankers, to mobile bankers with the use of banks app. While many are still recovering from the financial crisis, it may not be financially intelligent for Bank of...
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...transactions where one party has more or better information than the other leading to an imbalance of power. Adverse Selection is the associated problem of information asymmetry that arises before the parties to a contract reach an agreement. It occurs when bad credit risks (firms with poor investment channels and high inherent risks) become more probable to acquire loans than good credit risks (firms with better investment opportunities and less inherent risks). Moral Hazard is the associated problem of information asymmetry that arises after the parties to a contract reach an agreement. It arises when the borrower has an incentive to breach the loan covenants by investing in ‘immoral projects’ which are unacceptable to the borrower and also have a high possibility of default. Both these risks occur because of the lenders’ imperfect knowledge about the borrowers and their activities. For Financial institutions, information asymmetry inherent to credit disbursement is a key risk that needs to be managed. II. Bangladesh Bank Guidelines for Credit Risk Management As the central bank and apex regulatory body for the country's monetary and financial system, Bangladesh Bank provides a number of recommended policy and procedural guidelines to the financial sector that are directional in nature and aims to improve the risk management culture. Policy guidelines of Bangladesh Bank include Lending Guidelines, Credit Assessment & Risk Grading, Approval Authority, Segregation...
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