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Why I don’t suggest ULIP Plans

There are several financial products in market which can help you to invest for better future. One of the product which was much talked about is ULIP plan. A ULIP – Unit Linked Investment Plan is a hybrid product of Mutual Fund and Life Insurance. Mutual Fund: Underlying choosable Mutual Fund can be anything based on your risk profile, but most of the time this is fixed. And the returns are…

Fundamental Review of Trading Book (FRTB)

Fundamental Review of Trading Book is a regulatory requirement. This is used to update the requirements for the trading capital. Several things it changes are as follows: Using Expected Shortfall instead of VaR (Value at Risk) More stringent rules on internal transfer of risk between banking and trading books

Regulatory Environment in Investment Banking

This post will detail latest information about the regulatory requirements for various asset classes, reporting, and other requirements. This is detailed below.

Enterprise data management is a way to manage the data across organization. This provides a central real time repository of updated data to various systems, as required.

Microsoft is providing some good books online for free, check them out: https://mva.microsoft.com/ebooks Best C# Books as per my knowledge are: C# in Depth CLR via C# C# in a Nutshell Some more Links to be added

Smart Beta – And how it’s useful

http://www.researchaffiliates.com/Our%20Ideas/Insights/Fundamentals/Pages/SBS/1-The-Genesis-of-Smart-Beta-Investing.aspx  

Today we have made a visit to the valley of flowers. It was beautiful, lush green, and scenic.  Thanks to great directions from mobile navigator, we reached correctly not running around. The valley is full of vibrant coloured flowers.

Alum is the material used for the water purificaiton, cogulation / Flocculation. Cogulation/Flocculation helps to reduce the turbidity, and improve the quality of water. Then various processes needs to be performed before it is usable. Chlorine, alum are provided for purification process, this w http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome…

Warp Speed – Basel 1/2/3

Basel is a committe formed by the G20 countries for establishing standards in Banking operations. Which is then adopted by many countries. Basel is based on the name of the city Basel in Swiss. The committee is known as Basel Comittee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), which doesn’t have any authority to implement the policies but inturn depend on the local regulator / central bank. As of now 27…

Warp Speed – Hadoop

Hadoop is a big data platform which is developed in Yahoo based on GFS (Google File System). Hadoop caters big data which caters to 4 V’s (Velocity, Veracity, Variety, and Volume). The core components in Hadoop V2 are HDFS the distributed file system for storing the data YARN – Yet Another Resource Negotiator for getting the data and processing Map Reduce v2 – To execute Map Reduce jobs for…

Warp Speed – Scala

Series intention is for developers to pick up things quickly and start their work. So many of the minute details are ignored, please use a exhaustive material for the same if needed.

Warp Speed – Sales Force

Welcome to the first series of Warp Speed Series. This one introduces the Sales Force. Two types of development in Salesforce are: Declarative: Point and click functionality through UI, Lightning Process builder, Schema builder, Reports Programmatic: Refers to the code-driven functionality. Using Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning. Above this JS is also used. SOQL is SQL for Object database. We…