Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Program
2009-10
Name: Parthasarathy FINAL REVIEW
Bhaskar
Campus Name: FMS, Delhi
Project Guide: Mr. Swapnil Pathak
The Project
3 parts
l Population
l Financial Development *
l Per Capital Income/Disposable Income
l Inflation *
l Price of Insurance Products- Elasticity*
l Life Expectancy*
l Secondary Market Interest Rates
l Structural Changes post 2000, How do
you accommodate that?
l Stock Market Index
GDP, the big factor
l Interdependence of GDP,
GDS, Life Funds
l Makes better sense to
use a widely prevalent
Macro Variable which
influences all
l Especially if it can be
predicted
Methodology Used
l Eviews
Challenges faced
l Hypothesis
l People are affected by Trading Indices
l Affected by a time lag
l Average time lag found to be 2 months
l Found that the Sensex affects ULIP sales
differently in different stages
l A steady trend estimated when Sensex
was climbing upwards
l No particular trend for Sensex that was
moving down or volatile- mainly due to
lack of data points
History of Stock Market
Crashes
l Historically Stock Market Crashes have
lead to slump in Linked Products
l UK, Italy & Japan have for most part
waited for the Market to bounce back-
than do anything too drastic
l Singapore had to wait for 3 full years to
recover from the impact of a Stock Crash
l Found that a Stock Market Jump, always
leads to recovery in ULIP sales
l In the time of recession Capital
Guarantee Linked Products are offered
ULIPS and the world of option
pricing
•“For everything
you have missed, you have gained something else, and fo
.”
l Ralph Waldo Emerson
• All compromises are not the same.
• Some compromises appeal more to us than others.
More specifically , they appeal to our brain. Even more
specifically, to our utility curves.
ULIPS…..
l Tax advantages
l Sufficient
Industry wide data for Linked
Product sales unavailable (to make a
proper regression analysis)
l Hence,only ICICI Prudential Linked Product
Sales have been considered
l LinearModels to predict Stock Market
fluctuations?
l Earlier models linking FII Inflows and Sensex
l Scenario
building approach for Sensex(based
on Macroeconomic factors)
References