Personal Finance Articles

What is Initial Public Offering (IPO)? An Initial Public Offer (IPO) is a way through which growth-oriented companies offer their share to the general public for the first time. The motive behind going for an IPO issue is to raise...

Dreaming about a vacation, making it a part of your life goals, investing in it, planning the entire trip and counting days until we could go on a dream vacation. Sounds satisfying, doesn’t it? After planning the entire trip and...

What is Trading? Trading is a short-term process that involves buying and selling stocks, commodities, currencies, derivatives or other financial instruments. The primary objective is to make profits from the short-term movement in prices of these securities. Hence, traders take...

What is the difference between a broker and a trading platform? The broker is a person who facilitates the deal between the buyer and the seller in order to confirm the trade against commission, on the other hand the trading...

For every trade on the secondary market or stock exchange, there are two parties in a transaction. The buyer buys the securities and the seller sells the securities. This transaction is a simple trade on the stock exchange. After this...

Indians' love for real estate is inseparable. However, it is not for everyone to take on such a high investment cost. Real Estate Investment Trust REITs are a relatively new type of investment scheme (in India) that offer real estate...

There may be several reasons why a company goes for an IPO. It can be for funding its business operations, repayment of the debt, dilution of shares, etc. Similarly, your purpose of investing in an IPO may be different –...

The term "sweat equity shares" refers to shares that a firm issues to its directors or workers in exchange for contributing intellectual property rights, know-how, or any other kind of value addition in exchange for non-cash consideration or at a...