Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from Latin: aurum) and atomic number 79. In its purest form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, been a valuable and highly sought long before the beginning of recorded history. The world consumption of new gold produced is about 50% in jewellery,...

Due to greater emphasis on developmental and social banking, the quality of loan is affected. The quality of loan portfolio is very critical for the health of a bank. Contaminated loan portfolio is definitely a bane for any bank. It puts a severe dent on the profitability of a bank where it is...

Mergers and acquisition are important corporate strategy actions that aid the firm in external growth and provide it competitive advantage. In todays globalized economy, mergers and acquisition are being increasingly used the world over, for improving competitiveness of companies through gaining...

The research on asset volatility in financial market is the foundation of predict asset volatility accurately, Bollerslev built a generalised ARCH (GARCH) model based on the ARCH model. provides a more real financial instruments. to estimate a bes term and lastly, test for significance. The...

The investors carefully watch the performance of stock markets by observing the composite market index in general and BSE Sensex in particular before their investment. The Sensex (market index) acts as a yardstick to influence foreign investors to secure i It provides a base for investors in...

This study attempts to forecast imports of India using Auto Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) and Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models of forecasting. Using data for 1971-72 to 2014-15, imports of India are forecasted for imminent 5 years starting from 2015-16 to 2019-2020....

Private placement of securities is an offer by a company, to a select group of persons to subscribe its securities. Private placement can be made to any person except for qualified institutional buyers and ESOP holders. Normally, a company would prefer approaching its existing shareholders over...

Buyback of shares was considered as a good beginning for introducing flexibility in the capital structure. In 1999, the Securities and Exchange Board of India issued guidelines on buyback of shares that are to be followed by the listed companies. Buybacks can be regarded as the late 20th century...

The study used sample of public net assets to investigate the differences in characteristics of assets held, portfolio diversification, and variable effects of diversification on investment performance for the period May, 2002 to May,2005 The study found that public sponsored funds in terms of...

The concept of value is like beauty. Just as it is said, “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”. Value is determined by a person who seeks or perceives value in a thing. In analyzing a company, it is not sufficient just to study its past performance. The environment- economic, industrial,...