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Author: Mukul PAL | Date: 27 September 2011 | Comments (1)

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We are working with a group of experts to improve our performance cycles for the microfinance space. The aim is to understand credit risk. Microfinance lenders were criticised for profiteering from unfairly high rates of interest. This made it imperative to review practices, understand the universe of microfinance variables and see if an objective system could be arrived at to assist the sector players.

Though microfinance has a moralistic role of creating social impact, it’s hard to draw the line between profit and a social cause. What happened in Andhra Pradesh with SKS has created a flutter among players. The ‘for profit’ players attempt to walk the tight ‘social cause’ rope. Also, we have an economic cycle that connects consumption patterns, basic demand and economic growth to microfinance. And, a downward economic cycle hurts all finance players, whether micro- or conventional finance.

This is why we took up the challenge to build an industry-wide model for the sector. Microfinance is a bit different compared to conventional finance. On one side are social impact variables like poverty alleviation indicators and, on the other, are financial variables and microfinance institutions that are a part of the listed exchange market. The approach that identifies outliers in a group of stocks could also do the same for social variables. The idea of seasonality is not only about a sector’s good or bad behaviour over a period of time, but also about its quarterly performance in an overall bad year. Our performance cycle approach could also look at social variables like poverty, infant mortality and trends in the health services….

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Author: Orpheus | Date: 27 September 2011 | Comments (0)

Categories: Performance Cyclicality, Time Triads

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NIFTY Weekly. The weekly RSI failure suggests further negativity ahead. Our next intermediate targets lie at 4,500-4,000 levels.

Our Jiseki Time cycles are seasonal patterns of strength or weakness in assets. They are derived from percentile rankings of 0 to 100. The higher the percentile more the chance for an asset to weaken and worst the ranking, better the chance for the respective asset to outperform.

Alpha is a daily strategy signal product that gives trading and investment signals. Alpha is a numeric Ranking product based on TIME fractals. The signals are illustrated through tracker and running portfolios. Alpha can be used by fund managers for relative allocations, traders for leverage bets and high net worth clients for selective trades. Alpha is a part of the time triads analytics developed by Orpheus Research.

Coverage India: CNX100 traded stocks and Indian Indices.

Michesan Anna-Maria, Head of India Research. Anna discovered her interest of markets immediately after completing her graduate studies in Economics. She followed it up with post graduate studies in corporate finance. A host of research work in behavioral finance, option strategies and quantifying market sentiment followed. Anna covers Indian equity and combines Elliott, Time Fractals and Time Analytics to deliver accuracy across time frames. To review some of her work, check out the annual India accuracy report 2009.

Author: Orpheus | Date: 27 September 2011 | Comments (0)

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