Category: Investing
Understanding Interest-Rate Risks and Yields
Like all bonds, corporates tend to rise in value when interest rates fall, and they fall in value when interest rates rise. Usually the longer the maturity, the greater the…
Top Basic Facts that you need to know to Invest
Interest Payments Corporate bond interest is usually paid semiannually. Zero-coupon bonds pay no periodic interest. Forms of Issuance Corporate bonds are issued in several forms: Registered Bonds: Some corporate bonds…
Types of Fixed Income Securities
There are a few types of Fixed Income Securities. Corporate Bonds Corporate bonds (also called corporates) are debt obligations, or IOUs, issued by private and public corporations. They are typically…
Basics of stock market
Financial markets provide their participants with the most favourable conditions for purchase/sale of financial instruments they have inside. Their major functions are: guaranteeing liquidity, forming assets prices within establishing proposition…
Getting to know investment process
The key point of investing funds is minimizing risks and getting income. To know more, it is important to distinguish between different processes investment comprises. We begin with the simplest…
Mutual Funds and Index Funds
Buy an index fund. Approximately 80% of mutual funds underperform the average return of the stock market. Here’s something else you need to know about mutual funds. We know you…
How to invest overseas using single-country funds and ETFs
For that reason alone, financial advisers typically recommend putting 15 percent of a stock portfolio in non-U.S. markets. For most people, a diversified international mutual fund covers the map. Yet…
What are private equity investments
Private equity investments are capital invested in public, but more typically private, companies on a private placement basis and are not available in the public markets. Private equity investments run…
ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds): pros and cons
Exchange Traded Fund or ETF is a fund that tracks an index, but can be traded like a stock. They are like stocks because they: • trade all day long…
What is behind the numerous figures of the quarterly reports
Investors need to get an idea of what is behind the numerous figures of the quarterly reports. It can be hard for an inexperienced investor to understand the point of…