Name the foreign investor who picked up a small stake in Reliance Mutual Fund a
couple of years ago? Eton Park Capital Management.
The currency of this Latin American country was devalued by its government
steeply last month. Which currency and country are we referring to ? Bolivar
and Venezuela .
Who is the author of Too Big To Fail? Andrew Ross Sorkin.
What is the maximum fee + expenses that a fixed income fund can charge
according to SEBI regulations? 2.25%
Which fund house was the first in India to launch an exchange traded fund to
track gold? Also which was the first fund launched to track gold mining stocks?
Benchmark. DSP Black Rock World Gold Fund launched to track gold mining stocks.
Who was India ’s Finance minister as we stepped into the last decade (We are
looking for the person who held the portfolio in January 2000)? Yashwant Sinha
This is a sitter. Name the only IT stock that has regained the market cap that
it enjoyed at the peak of the tech boom that ended after Q1 2000? Infosys
Technologies
Name the fund house that launched the first fund to invest in overseas
securities in India ? Principal Mutual Fund
We all know Reliance Mutual Fund ended the decade as # 1 in terms of assets
under management. Which fund house was #1 at the start of the decade? Unit
Trust of India
Who is author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World? Liaquat
Ahamed.
Paul Volcker the acclaimed chairman of US Federal Reserve has long held the
view that there has been one innovation in the financial sector over the past
several decades that has truly added vale. Take a guess his pick (or an
informed answer too)? Automatic Teller Machines (ATM)
Which was the first foreign owned mutual fund to start operations in India ?
Morgan Stanley
Mutual Fund (Pioneer was a partner in a joint venture while Morgan Stanley was
the first 100% foreign owned mutual fund)
Too big To Fail dominates the news on global banking today Who is the author of
Too Big Too Save? Robert Pozen.
What are Eagles? Eagles were the largest of the four main decimal base units of
denomination used for circulating coinage in the United States prior to 1933
the year gold was withdrawn from circulation. The four main base units of
denomination were the cent, the dime, the dollar and the eagle where a dime is
10 cents, a dollar is 10 dimes and and an eagle is 10 dollars.
What does Amex Gold Bugs Index track? Stocks of gold mining companies.
Who is the Chairman of Planning Commission and the Deputy Chairman? The Prime
Minister of India is always the Chairman of Planning Commission. The Deputy
Chairman is appointed by the Govt of India.
For which company was the first open offer made under SEBI take over code?
Abbott Labs
Of you were spending in togrog, you would be travelling in which country?
Mongolia .
Name the oldest central bank in the world. Sveriges Riksbank – the Central bank
of Sweden .
Who is the author of financial Armageddon a book that outlined the financial
crisis that captured attention of mainstream media and stock market in 2008?
Michael Panzer.
Who is the author of The Power of Gold? Peter L Bernstein
What is the maximum permitted investment management fee for mutual funds in
India ? 1.25% for fund size upto 100 crore and 1.00% for fund size in excess of
100 crore
Who was the finance minister of India during emergency period (June 1975 –
March 1977) in India ? C. Subramaniam.
Which was the first money market in fund in India ? Kothari Pioneer Money
Market Account (Now part of Franklin Templeton)
Name the organization that serves as the bank for central banks? Bank of
International Settlements
Who was the first Indian Governor of Reserve Bank of India ? CD Deshmukh
Name the exchange that started electronic trading in India ? Over The Counter
Exchange of India (OTCEI)
Which was the first fund in India dedicated to the infrastructure theme? UTI
Infrastructure Fund
What is Rule of 72? If you the likely rate of return on any asset class
dividing 72 by that number gives the period (Number of years) in which the
investment will double in value.
Who is the next chairman of US Federal Reserve? Ben Bernanke – the present
chairman - has been nominated by the US President and his appointment for a
further four years is subject to confirmation by the congress.
Who was the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of India ? Osborne Smith
Krona is the currency of Sweden The plural form of Krona is Kronor and one
krona is subdivided into 100 ore (singular and plural)
Name the author of the Ascent of Money published last year? Niall Ferguson.
Who publishes The Gloom, Doom & Boom Report? Marc Faber
Name the fund house that first launched an index fund in India ? UTI (Master
Index Fund launched in June 1998)
Who is the head of JP Morgan Chase? Jamie Dimon
Name the author of The Great Crash of 1929? John Kenneth Galbraith
Which was the first fund in India to be positioned as principally a product
targeted at investing in PSU stocks? UTI Master Plus
Name the company that was first required to acknowledge insider trading in the
offer document? Reliance Polypropylene and Reliance Polyethylene in the early
1990s (both companies are now an integral part of Reliance Industries Ltd
following merger)
Name the global company for which Sterlite in engaged in a battle to acquire?
Asarco
Name the organization for which the US treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
worked for before taking up his present assignment? Federal Reserve Bank of New
York (Known as The New York Fed)
Who is the author of Bailout Nation? Barry Ritholtz
Name the fund house that specializes in exchange traded funds in India ? Bench
mark Asset Management Company
Who is the likely new partner for Chrysler? Fiat
If you tracking the CAC 40, which country’s stock market would be following?
France .
Which Indian auto –component company is the aprt of the business group that is
the promoter of Hero Honda? Munjal Showa.
Name the first dedicated fund launched in India with the objective of investing
in overseas securities? Principal Global Opportunities Fund.
Who was the first CIO (Chief Investment Officer) of India ’s first private
mutual fund – Kothari Pioneer? Ravi Mehrotra.
Name the only Korean company that has sponsored a mutual fund in India ? Mirae
Asset
Who is the author of The Power of Gold: The History of Obsession? Peter
Bernstein.
Who is the head of European Central Bank? Jean-Claude Trichet.
Name the latest winner of the Nobel Price for Economics? Paul Kruman
Which country’s government / central bank famously sold a large part of its
gold holdings about seven years ago at a 20-25% of the current price levels
Great Britain .
The author of “Beating The Street” is Peter Lynch
What is SPIcE? An exchange traded fund of ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund that
tracks the BSE Sensitive Index.
Who is the author of Manias, Panics and Crashes? Charles P Kindleberger
Name India ’s first fund to comply with Shariah norms? Tata Select Equity.
Forint is used as currency in Hungary .
When was the Gold Standard as the basis for financial system and economy
abolished? 1970.
Who was independent India ’s first Finance minister? R K Shanmukham Chetty.
Oil refining has been source of a few massive IPOs in India . Name the first
private sector company to do an IPO for refinery in India ? Mangalore Refinery
& Petro Chemicals (MRPL).
Who is the largest provider of exchange traded funds in the world? Bartclays.
You & Us is the positioning of which renowned global financial firm now
grappling with major problems due to credit crisis? UBS
Name the fund manager who was charged with insider trading by SEBI and the
exonerated by the SEBI appellate Authority? Samir Arora.
In which part of the world would you be transacting in zloty? Poland .
Who is the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve? Ben Bernanke.
Which is the largest fixed income fund by assets in the world? PIMCO Total
Return Bond Fund.
Name the first mutual fund to cross the Rs. 50000 mark for assets under
management in India ? Unit Trust of India .
Who is the author of books such as A Bull in China and Investment Biker? Jim
Rogers.
Name the chairman of the Unit Trust of India when the institution was separated
into UTI Mutual Fund and a special undertaking of the Govt of India? M
Damodaran.
The Button wood Agreement was signed in 1792 This led to the formation of a
financial institution that is vital part of the global financial markets even
today. Name this institution. The New York Stock exchange.
Name the first mutual fund that cease to exist in India ? CRB Mutual Fund.
In which company’s stock will you investing if you decide to buy the security
with the code C in USA ? Citigroup.
Who is the author of ‘Against the Gods, The Remarkable Story of Risk’? Peter L
Bernstein.
G.O.A.T used to the licensing company to the name and likeness of which famous
sport personality? Mohammed Ali (G.O.A.T is the acronym for Greatest of All
Times)
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