Covered Interest Arbitrage: Meaning, Procedure and Example

Covered Interest Arbitrage Meaning, Example, Interest rate parity

Covered Interest Rate Arbitrage (CIRA) is a simple investment strategy that falls under strategic financial management, you know, because it has strategies and stuff. Also because it involves money, so its, financial and stuff. Let’s just get into it. But before we get into it, it being Covered Interest Rate Arbitrage, there is a little … Read more

Mark to Market: Meaning, Examples and Advantages

Mark to market settlement meaning, examples

Welcome back to the derivative segment. We have been covering a whole series of financial derivatives including Forwards, Futures, Options in our previous articles. This one is all about daily settlement of future contracts. A derivative is basically an instrument that derives its value from an underlying security, and a future contract is basically an … Read more

What are Futures Contract? Meaning, Examples & Uses

Futures Contracts Meaning, Examples, Uses

What are Future Contracts? Know the true meaning, how do future contracts work in reality? And go through practical examples of this financial instrument. So once again, Welcome back to our derivative segment!! Oh, you didn’t know this was a segment? Well it is, it is, we have Options and Forward contracts here, this one is … Read more

Types of Futures: Stock, Index, Currency & Commodity

Types of Future contracts, stock, index, currency, commodity futures

We have discussed a lot about derivatives in our different posts. This time we bring for you a yet another enticing topic revolving around the derivative section. You’ll basically learn about the Types of Futures: Stock, Index, Currency & Commodity and much more. So, welcome back to our derivative segment. One of the most lucrative … Read more

Forward Contracts: Meaning, Examples and Types of Settlement

Forward Contracts meaning, types, examples

What is a Forward Contract? Know the meaning, forward contract examples and learn how forward contracts are settled. How they are used? What are the potential risks involved in Forward contracts? Let’s unfold the answers to these queries one by one… Derivatives are considered one of the most complex instruments in finance. But they’re not, … Read more