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Sachidanand (Sacha) Singh
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  • Mumbai, Maharashtra
  • India
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Sachidanand (Sacha) Singh and Manish are now connections
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Entrepreneur is less likely to be as diversified as financial investors (say a fund). The project is therefore more risky for the entrepreneur – i.e. if we consider that the risk of a business that actually matters is the risk it adds to one’s portf…
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Commitment charge is what the borrower pays on un-drawn amount. Suppose I contract to borrow 100 on say 5th Nov 2010 and I do not draw on the facility till say Jan 5, 2011. I need to pay the commitment fee for the period 5 Nov to 5 Jan. This fee wil…
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I doubt it. Commitment fee is linked to period (0.25% per year or so) processing fee is not linked to any period, it is a flat percent of the loan amount.
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Yes, it should be 39.
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Profession:
Investment Banking
Current Role:
Director
Past Experience:
15 years in commercial banking, 13 years in investment banking, 3 years looking after finance in a manufacturing concern, over ten years as visiting / guest faculty at business schools
Education:
Graduate
Professional Skills & Interests Summary:
Debt trading, Equity research, Valuation of firms, Project structuring, Project Finance, M&A, Water treatment, Researches into (empirical) behaviour of market variables, Teaching corporate finance
Current Location:
Mumbai
Interested In:
consulting offers, knowledge and training, getting back in touch
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Mulla Nasreddin, Gaussian Distribution and Capital Asset Pricing Model

Mulla Nasreddin, a 13th century legend lived somewhere between Turkey and Afghanistan (both countries included). I am sure he must have been a kid and a young man in his time but he is remembered as an old man, old and outrageously wise. One evening he was seen looking for some lost article under a street lamp. A passerby inquired what was the Mulla looking for. “My ring”, came the reply . “Now, where exactly did you lose it” the stranger persisted. “Oh, yonder on the commons while grazing my do… Continue

Posted on August 4, 2010 at 7:30am — 12 Comments

Sachidanand (Sacha) Singh

Euro

I am revising my lecture notes on euro as I have been assigned to take International Financial Management. I had last revised it in 2005 when euro was just six years old. It had stabilized and it also had the backing of enormous political commitment of leaders and citizens alike. I expected, as many others did, that euro would sail through any storms that may come its way. I had also, somewhat boldly, shared my view that in coming decades euro would offer stiff competition to dollar as the inter… Continue

Posted on July 11, 2010 at 1:30am — 3 Comments

Sachidanand (Sacha) Singh

Perspectives on Allowing Yuan to Float Freely

In 2007 China recorded trade surplus at a whopping 11% of its GDP. In December 2007 People’s Bank of China (PBC) held foreign exchange reserves of 1.5 trillion USD in addition to over six hundred tonnes of gold. In December 2009 PBC held foreign exchange reserve of 2.4 trillion and about 1100 tonnes of gold. PBC had been keeping most of its foreign exchange reserves in US treasuries. Its purchases helped keep USD high and US rates low. US on the other hand have been running huge trade deficits.… Continue

Posted on July 4, 2010 at 4:46pm — 3 Comments

Sachidanand (Sacha) Singh

Who should pay for credit rating?

Who should pay for rating – investors or issuers? In the aftermath of the GFC this has become a point of serious debate. Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) maintain that their internal systems and procedures are adequate to take care of any conflict of interest between their marketing (get more business) and rating functions. Others are not so sure. Many seem to be thinking that an investor-pays-model will be better. CRAs are quick to point out that an investor-pays-model too will give rise to pressu… Continue

Posted on May 6, 2010 at 10:24am — 5 Comments

Sachidanand (Sacha) Singh

Some Important Stages in Our Understanding of Valuing a Firm

Double entry book keeping is, perhaps, our first attempt at

understanding the value of a business. A Franciscan monk Lucca Pacioli

is generally credited with inventing this system. Some maintain that

the monk merely documented the practices of Venetian merchants and that

double entry book keeping was first thought of by Fibonacci; in any

case the system was, without any doubts, invented by Italians. Pacioli

published his book containing, among other things, this fou… Continue

Posted on February 22, 2010 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

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At 2:01pm on August 21, 2010, byddu rao gave Sachidanand (Sacha) Singh a gift
At 2:54am on August 12, 2010, Jagadish Kumar said…
My pleasure Sir !!
At 11:06am on August 7, 2010, Rohit Raj Setu said…
The pleasure is all mine sir. Its an honor for a newcomer like me to be connected with you.. Thanks alot.
At 2:03am on July 31, 2010, Vivian Miranda said…
thanks to you sir! i'm glad that there are people like you who spends time in sharing their knowledge. more power to you sir!
At 3:17pm on July 29, 2010, Sandeep Agarwal said…
Well Sir, as you say !! I have only to gain from your acquaintance.
At 10:12am on July 13, 2010, kalai said…
Dear sir, i stongly feel that any finance person should be strong in MS excel. As every one , even i know some basics in exel , but advaced excel can de learn by practice or learning from experts. I am searching for tutorials and courses in excel in online, i am not able reach any(proper). If you have any source, kindly let me know.
At 2:38am on July 9, 2010, sapna kushwaha said…
thank you so much sir for kindly connecting...
as well giving a feedback..

regarding sharing the project its still yet to be approved by my company and college its still a long process and once its complete only then i can think about it.

anyways thanks a lot sir

Best regards
Sapna
At 12:59am on July 9, 2010, sapna kushwaha said…
hello sir , I am a student of mba doing my summer project in "Role of islamic finance in project financing" I was reading in the istisna ijara project financing model.
i read a model where the SPV was taking a conventional loan from bank and then financed the project on IJARA (lease) but the rent of lease which the project company gave to SPV was equal to the interest of conventional loan which the SPV had to give the Bank, so ultimately the project co is paying the interest...which is prohbited in islam ...i am really confused plz help me.

Best regards
Sapna Kushwaha
At 4:01pm on July 4, 2010, Ryon C. Patterson said…
Thank you kindly for the connection Sir. I am looking forward to getting to know you and learning how we may be of assistance to each other in the future.

Best,

Ryon
At 3:50pm on July 4, 2010, Ryon C. Patterson said…
Dear Sir,

Greetings to you! I would be honored if you would connect with me.

Best regards,

Ryon
 
 
 

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