Engineer's Finance

The investment objective of Gold Benchmark Exchange Traded Scheme (Gold BeES) is to provide returns that, before expenses, closely correspond to the returns provided by domestic price of gold through physical Gold.

However, the performance of Scheme may differ from that of the domestic prices of Gold due to expenses and certain other factors. There can be no assurance or guarantee that the investment objective of Gold BeES will be achieved. Continue reading →

I have not provided much information regarding ETF which is Exchange Traded Funds. I will write more about it in the future articles. As you are aware because of the inflation the investments are just eroded. In such a scenario, most of the investment options seem to be very scary. In reality there are very few options to the investor which can ward off the negative impact of the inflation. Continue reading →

Investing in stock market is not like betting. The investors should try to avoid speculating on the news about companies that they are trading in. It is not a good practice to move in and move out every time there is some news or rumors about the company. I know many people who keep trading and call them investors.  I call traders, those people who continually indulge in short selling and deal in options and futures. These traders are not investors; they are purely gamblers as you see in many betting houses and casinos around the world. These traders like most gamblers lose eventually or frequently. Continue reading →

I never had any idea about inflation until recently. The prices of commodities started reaching north in a stupendous fashion and I was left with no choice other than to live with it. Inflation is nothing but the percentage fall of your money/buying power i.e. today I can buy for Rs. 10 a loaf of bread and in a week’s time with the same amount of money Rs. 10 I can buy just half the loaf of bread. Here inflation is 50% i.e. the value of money has fallen by 50%. Continue reading →