Power is an essential requirement for all facets of our life and has been recognized as a basic human need. It is the critical infrastructure on which the socio-economic development of the country depends. The growth of the economy and its global competitiveness hinges on the availability of reliable and quality power at competitive rates. The demand of power in India is enormous and is growing steadily. The vast Indian power market, today offers one of the highest growth opportunities for private developers.
India is endowed with a wealth of rich natural resources and sources of energy. Resources for power generation are unevenly dispersed across the country. This can be appropriately and optimally utilized to make available reliable supply of electricity to each and every household. Electricity is considered key driver for targeted 8 to 10% economic growth of India. Electricity supply at globally competitive rates would also make economic activity in the country competitive in the globalized environment.
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INTRODUCTION:
GMR Group is an Indian business group that is in to Energy and Infrastructure sectors. It is based in Bangalore, India. The group has emerged as a big player in the airport development space and is presently developing the Delhi and Hyderabad airports. GMR also owns Indian Premier League's (A Twenty20 Cricket league in India) Delhi franchise, Delhi Daredevils. Grandhi Mallikarjun Rao is the Chairman and Managing director of GMR group. With an estimated personal worth of $6.2 billion dollars, G M Rao stands at #198 in Forbes' 2008 World Billionaire list.
Key Companies
GMR Group is one of the fastest growing infrastructure companies in India and has interests in Airports, Highways, Energy and Urban Infrastructure. It other area of interest is Agri-Business.
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Derivatives, such as options or futures, are financial contracts which derive their value of a spot price time-series, which is called the under-lying". For examples, wheat farmers may wish to contract to sell their harvest at a future date to eliminate the risk of a change in prices by that date. Such a transaction would take place through a forward or futures market. This market is the derivative market” and the prices on this market would be driven by the spot market price of wheat which is the underlying". The terms contracts" or products" are often applied to denote the specific traded instrument. The world over, derivatives are a key part of the financial system. The most important contract- types are futures and options, and the most important underlying markets are equity, treasury bills, commodities, foreign exchange and real estate.
Derivatives—contracts that gamble on the future prices of assets--are secondary assets, such as options and futures, which derive their value from primary assets, such as currency, commodities, stocks, and bonds. The current price of an asset is determined by the market demand for and supply of the asset; however, the future price of an asset typically remains unknown. A week or a month in the future, the price may increase, decrease, or remain the same. Buyers and sellers often like to hedge their bets against this uncertainty about future price by making a contract for future trading at a specified price. The contract—a financial instrument--is called a derivative.
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About the IMF
The IMF is an international organization of 184 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.
Since the IMF was established its purposes have remained unchanged but its operations—which involve surveillance, financial assistance, and technical assistance—have developed to meet the changing needs of its member countries in an evolving world economy.
Preface
The International Monetary Fund is frequently in the news, but its role and functions are often misunderstood. This pamphlet aims to explain them.
Further information on the IMF can be obtained from the IMF's website (www.imf.org), including the full text of the IMF's Annual Report, the biweekly IMF Survey and its annual Supplement on the IMF, Fact Sheets, pamphlets, and other publications. This pamphlet was prepared by staff of the IMF's External Relations Department.
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WHAT IS INVESTMENT
INTRODUCTION:
In general sense, investment means saving. But it is not true, because saving means expending less than Income. & Investment means what one does with his savings. If one keeps his savings in the form of cash, it is certainly going to decrease in value because the value of money is constantly going down. Therefore, if one wants to maintain or increase the value of his saving then he has to keep savings in forms other than cash. That is what investment is all bout, development of saving with the intention of preserving or increasing their value.
The primary objectives of an investment is:
=> To earn highest rate of return.
=> To ensure utmost safety of capital.
The secondary objective maybe:
=> Growth of capital
=> Liquidity.
=> Tax savings.
In the search of higher return, the investor finds many methods or investment tools for making money. They may be shares, debentures, bonds, real estate, gold, precious stones, commodities, mutual funds etc. they offer different rates of returns but also at proportionate risk. We will now take a look at investment opportunities and some of their unique characteristics. This will be followed by a comparison of all of them on the basis criteria crucial for investor.
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