For a long long time, companies and even countries, outlined Vision 2020; what they want to achieve by the year 2020. They might have been on track or not, but 2020 made everyone look unprepared.
The annual worldwide sales of the retail e-commerce industry for the year of 2017 stood at $2.38 trillion. Yes, you read it right! Trillion! And now, imagine this, in 2021 this figure is set to be more than doubled, taking it past the GDPs of countries like Japan, India, Germany, UK, France!
A career in corporate finance means one would work for the organization to help generate and meet its capital requirements, utilizing these resources optimally to allow organic and inorganic growth and channel the earnings in the appropriate manner as to boost further growth and shareholder satisfaction. One gets to work with the CXOs and top level executives of a large multinational company, a domestic leading group or even a relatively regional player with high growth prospects. Sounds exciting?
Products & technologies have had increasingly higher adoption rates. Telephones took almost 100 years to reach 100 million users, mobile phones took 20 years, Facebook took less than 5 years to reach the same mark and Instagram just 2 years! With a breakneck speed in the product adoption rates, organisations all over the world are realizing the importance of the product management role in developing, adoption, growth and retention of the product in its life cycle. Companies are cognizant of the fact that they can make consumers the king by actually making the product the center of all their strategies.
Did you think how Facebook decided to acquire Whatsapp for a whopping $16 billion? Or how Reliance Jio is on a shopping spree, having bought more than 20 firms in the last 3 years? Or what is the strategy and the thinking behind IKEA’s expansion into India. The answer to all these is Corporate Finance.
So you want to buy the stocks of a company you like but you don’t want to buy stocks since you don’t have that kind of capital or risk appetite. Is there a way out? Yep. It’s called Call Option. Let’s get to the basics.
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde
Haven’t we all seen those Wall Street or Dalal Street movies and awed at the characters and their smart, calculative moves? Or read about Warren Buffet’s simple rules of investment and thought that “Well, I could do this”. Or heard yelling and commotion in their heads while picturing a stock market trading floor?
For a long long time, companies and even countries, outlined Vision 2020; what they want to achieve by the year 2020. They might have been on track or not, but 2020 made everyone look unprepared.
The annual worldwide sales of the retail e-commerce industry for the year of 2017 stood at $2.38 trillion. Yes, you read it right! Trillion! And now, imagine this, in 2021 this figure is set to be more than doubled, taking it past the GDPs of countries like Japan, India, Germany, UK, France!
A career in corporate finance means one would work for the organization to help generate and meet its capital requirements, utilizing these resources optimally to allow organic and inorganic growth and channel the earnings in the appropriate manner as to boost further growth and shareholder satisfaction. One gets to work with the CXOs and top level executives of a large multinational company, a domestic leading group or even a relatively regional player with high growth prospects. Sounds exciting?
Products & technologies have had increasingly higher adoption rates. Telephones took almost 100 years to reach 100 million users, mobile phones took 20 years, Facebook took less than 5 years to reach the same mark and Instagram just 2 years! With a breakneck speed in the product adoption rates, organisations all over the world are realizing the importance of the product management role in developing, adoption, growth and retention of the product in its life cycle. Companies are cognizant of the fact that they can make consumers the king by actually making the product the center of all their strategies.
Did you think how Facebook decided to acquire Whatsapp for a whopping $16 billion? Or how Reliance Jio is on a shopping spree, having bought more than 20 firms in the last 3 years? Or what is the strategy and the thinking behind IKEA’s expansion into India. The answer to all these is Corporate Finance.
So you want to buy the stocks of a company you like but you don’t want to buy stocks since you don’t have that kind of capital or risk appetite. Is there a way out? Yep. It’s called Call Option. Let’s get to the basics.
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde
Haven’t we all seen those Wall Street or Dalal Street movies and awed at the characters and their smart, calculative moves? Or read about Warren Buffet’s simple rules of investment and thought that “Well, I could do this”. Or heard yelling and commotion in their heads while picturing a stock market trading floor?
