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Recently, one of my friends forwarded me a story titled “Can you sleep when the wind blows”. It’s a nice story which partly answers the above questions. The story goes like this - Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands, however, most peop...

Value at risk(‘VaR’) It is a technique for estimating potential losses on risk positions as a result of movements in market rates and prices over a specified time horizon and to a given level of confidence. The use of VaR is integrated into market risk management and calculated for all trading posit...

Overview: In good economic times, yields on government bonds tend to track an upward curve, since longer term bonds carry a higher risk of inflation. The curve inverts when shorter-term debt—like 3-month Treasury notes—offer a higher interest rate than a longer-term bond such as the 10-year Treasury...

Last month, International College of Financial Planning and International College of Fashion were invited to various colleges in Delhi & NCR; we were pleased to give a talk to help the youth choose their career wisely. While International College of Financial Planning visited Pt. Jawahar Lal Neh...

On 8th Mar'19, ICoFP successfully conducted its One Day Training on 'Retirement Planning' for IFAs of UTI Mutual Funds at Jaipur. The workshop was custom designed for Financial Advisors aiming to penetrate the retirement market. The training received an outstanding response and a great feedback from...

Cognitive Biases: Conservatism Bias Conservatism bias is a belief perseverance bias in which peoplemaintain their prior views or forecasts by inadequately incorporating new information. This bias has aspects of both statistical and information-processing errors. Example: suppose a trader receives s...

What does a mutual fund actually do? A mutual fund gathers money from investors and parks this money into investments that an investor wants. The main objective of Mutual Fund Company is investment of investor’s money. Open-ended funds: These funds buy and sell units on a continuous basis and, hence...

Corporate governance can be defined as the system of internal controls and procedures by which individual companies are managed. It basically provides a framework for any company for dos and don’ts. It defines rights, roles and responsibilities of every individual in the organization. These framewor...

I am a subject matter specialist in International Derivatives and Portfolio Management and currently handling various independent national and international assignments. My experience in risk management is over 6 years but prior to this I have worked in relative field and got exposure in management ...

International College of Financial Planning organized an in-house session on February 18^th, 2019 at its ITO Campus inviting students from Shri Ram College of Commerce and Mata Sundri College on the topic "Trending Career Opportunities in Finance" by subject expert Mr. Kushal Bhateja, CFA, ...

In line with its mission to spread financial education in the country, ICoFP has taken a unique initiative in the form of 'Faculty Development Program'. Aimed at empowering faculty members/teachers/lecturers to take more informed decisions and manage their finances more efficiently, the program was ...

A  1 hour 15 minutes guest lecture was organized by  New Delhi Institue of Management Studies at their premises, 50B&C Tughlakabad Extension on 7^th February, 2019.The guest lecture was delivered by Mr. Anil Chopra (Group director Bajaj Capital). Prof Ruchi Arora from NDIM welcomed the ...

On the 23rd of January, 2019, the students from the MBA - Financial Analysis batch 2018-20 visited the offices of Moody's Analytics Knowledge Services (MAKS), based at Gurgaon. Moody's Analytics Knowledge Services is the knowledge services unit of Moody’s Analytics. The objective of the visit w...

International College of Financial Planning is always practicing Corporate Social Responsibility. And as a part of this, it intends to disseminate knowledge amongst the youth wherever possible. In the past month, ICoFP has been proudly invited to various colleges from Delhi University. We were pleas...

Earning money doesn’t come easy. Today, I am going to share with you a very powerful idea which has changed many lives. The idea of creating wealth without putting many efforts. This sounds interesting, isn't it?  I have come across a lot of techniques that people followed and succeeded in crea...

The importance of corporate governance becomes the talk of the street when a corporate fraud becomes a piece of breaking news. On 29th January 2019, Cobrapost, an investigative journalism company, held a press conference to debut its coverage of a huge banking and financial scam in India. This finan...

When it comes to choosing a Financial Planner Advisor, there are only a few you can trust. But you do need to start from somewhere. So, here are some bunch of tips you can use while choosing the best Financial Planner Advisor. A financial advisor is a certified financial planner Many times, it happe...

India is one of the best countries to start an idea. With the surplus advantage of a huge target market, so many needs and a technological strong growing economy, India is stepping towards becoming one of the world's strongest tech markets with the best startups in India. Having thrived at home for ...