JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Center for Management Studies, under its Student Research and Development Cell (SRDC) – Vidhyanidhi, organized a finance conclave titled Foreign Exchange Market Investment opportunities and Risk Management.
The first session began with the address of Dr. Batani Raghavendra Rao, Professor and Area Chair - Finance - CMS Business School. He delivered his speech under the title Hedging Forex Risks: Theory and Practices. Dr. Batani shared insights from a corporate perspective of hedging forex risks, forex exposure for investors, hedging tools, and practices of hedging by different companies and industries. He further explained his point through the examples of Infosys and HUL to provide deeper insights into the topic.
The second session was by Mr. Sayyam Singhvee, an alumnus of CMS. He conferred his views on the topic, Significance of Money in International Market. He explained the importance of money, the functioning of the stock market, and ways to use the internet in the best way possible. The session was interactive and valuable in terms of learning.
The third session had Professor Firdaus Khan M. R., an adjunct faculty at CMS Business School. She conferred her views on the topic, Opportunities and Risks of Currencies as an Inevitable Asset. She shared valuable insights into different aspects of currencies and elucidated on asset class, financial products and solutions, divergence and volatility, value drivers of FX and its unusual characters, attractive attributes, the role of currency in a portfolio, currency overlay, factor investing, investing in currency ETFs, crypto index fund, investing in crypto business, and future of currency.
Overall the event was a success and offered a rich learning experience to all the participants.