American Depository Receipt is an excellent way to buy shares of a foreign company in the US. American Depository Receipt is basically a negotiable certificate that is issued by the bank representing the foreign stock. American Depository Receipt was first used by JPMorgan in 1927, for the Selfridges&Co, a British retailer. There are so many reasons that make American Depository Receipt a viable option for investing in foreign stocks that are being traded at the US stock markets. Read the rest of this entry »

Assets are resources with financial or economic value that have the potential to give profitable return in future. Assets can be divided in two broad categories, viz. Immediate asset and Fixed asset. Immediate assets are those that are likely to be consumed by the holder in the near future. Read the rest of this entry »

Asset allocation is a process through which an investor distributes his or her investment portfolio at various asset classes. This helps the investor to benefit by mixing the assets classes so that they can average the income from high growth assets as well as low performing assets. Read the rest of this entry »

Arbitrage is the process of making profit from the price difference between two or more markets and a person who engages in arbitrage is called an arbitrageur. For example, an investor is trading simultaneously in NSE and BSE, for particular stock the price in BSE is lower than the trading price in NSE. Read the rest of this entry »

Annuity is an agreement between a person and an organization to pay a series of payments. Generally annuity is related to the contract between an investor and an insurance company. There are different types and categories of annuity based on different aspects of the process, including Read the rest of this entry »