What is an ETF(Exchange Traded Fund)? After the popularity of mutual funds in the last two decades here came an interesting investing object ETFs. ETFs make an investment in stocks of a particular index in the same weightage as of index which it follows. In an easy way, ETFs can be said as mutual funds that can be traded like stocks. ETFs can be traded at exchanges and the price depends on the buy and sells of units. Eg. Nifty ETF. How does ETFs work? Firstly the AMC buys the stocks with the same weightage as of index which the ETF will be following. Then these shares are divided into small units so that they can be distributed among the investors. And finally, these shares are then allotted to the investors. In case of more demand, the AMC can issue more shares and in case of low demand, the people can sell their shares back to the AMC. And after the allocation is done the AMC(Asset Management Company) which sponsors the ETF will list Read More: What is Nifty 50 and Sensex? How i...
Continued... 6) Oil and Gas Exploration & Production Source Reliance Industries Ltd. Annual Report 2019-20 Financials The company saw a drop in revenue of 35.8% from 5005 in FY 2018-19 to 3211 in FY 2019-20. The company saw a drop in EBITDA of 78.5% from 1642 in FY 2018-19 to 353 in FY 2019-20. This drop in revenue and EBITDA were as volumes from domestic upstream fields and US shale was lower because of natural decline and slowdown of in development activity. For the year, domestic production (RIL share) was at 38.8 BCFe, down 34.1% y-o-y and in US Shale, the business was 80.4 BCFe, down 14.9% y-o-y basis. RIL(Reliance Industries Ltd.) History Dhirubhai Ambani, Father of current Chairman Mukesh Ambani, returns to India in 1957 after a stint with A. Besse & Co., Aden, Yemen. He starts a yarn trading business from a small 500 sq. ft. office in Masjid Bunder, Mumbai, but dreams of establishing India’s largest company. In 1977 Reliance Textile Industries went public with its I...