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Vol. 2, No. 6 · June 2008 OPEN ACCESS
IJF Vol. 2
2008
Indian Journal of Finance
Volume 2, Issue 6 · June 2008
ISSN 0973-8711
Articles 5
DOI Prefix 10.17010/ijf
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Table of Contents 5 ARTICLES
01 Original Article
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The Farmer's Perspective of Commodity Futures in India - The Road Ahead

The success of the capital market reforms motivated the government and the Forwards Market Commission (the commodities regulator) to kick off similar reforms in the commodities market. Thereby, almost all the commodities are allowed to be traded in the futures …

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02 Original Article
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Mitigating Agri-Business Risk Through Weather Derivatives

The agri-business sector in India is largely dependent on monsoons. The arrival of monsoon remains uncertain and fate of millions of farmers lay in risk. In the first section, we examine the correlation between rainfall and food grain production in …

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03 Original Article
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IRR-A Blunder-What Next? But it is Still Popular-Why?

May be finance managers just enjoy living on the edge. What else would explain their weakness for using the internal rate of return (IRR) to assess capital projects? For decades, Finance textbooks and academics have warned that typical IRR calculations …

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04 Original Article
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Performance Comparison of Different Mutual Funds Schemes in India Through Sharpe Index Model

Mutual Fund is an investment company that pools money from shareholders and invests in a variety of securities, such as stocks, bonds and short term money market instruments or other securities. In a mutual fund, the fund manager trades the …

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05 Original Article
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A Study on How "Options" Work in Investment - A Guide to the Investors

Nowadays, many investors' portfolios include investments such as mutual funds, stocks and bonds. But the variety of securities you have at your disposal does not end there. Another type of security, called an option, presents a world of opportunity to …

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