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KotakSecurities.com turns 13!

Wednesday 14 August 2013

By B Gopkumar, EVP, Kotak Securities:

It gives me immense pleasure to let you know that Kotak Securities has completed 13 years of online presence through www.kotaksecurities.com.

Over the years, we have been pioneers in offering cutting edge technology and have always enhanced your online investing experience. Today, technology has transformed the entire face of the industry and trading has become more convenient and available on the go. We understand the changing dynamics of the industry and are constantly adapting to the same.

Keeping in tune with this evolution, we dedicate this decade to mobile phones and tablets. Kotak Securities has launched many applications under the Smart-Tech platform. These applications empower you and allow you to trade from anywhere, anytime and from any device. It could be a mobile phone or a tablet device like an iPad. This makes us the only broker to offer access to the stock markets on the go, across such a wide range of devices.

Month gone by
From a market perspective, the month of July witnessed weak macro-economic data influencing share prices. A faltering Chinese economy and a lack of stability in the US economic data weighed on crude oil prices. Yet, India did not witness any fall in oil prices. This is primarily because the Indian rupee fell to an all-time low. The Reserve Bank of India took tough measures to curb volatility in the foreign exchange market. The bright spot for Indian equities was a surprisingly positive financial performance of key companies. As a result, Indian equity markets saw both benchmark indices rallying past key levels.

Month Ahead
The monsoon session of the Indian Parliament begins in August. The stock market expects the government to take initiatives to improve the investment climate in India. Engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro cited 'challenging times' as the reason for a fall in profits for the quarter ended June 2013. The Indian government needs to put its fiscal situation in order. The stock market would look for cues from the government on resource mobilisation to meet its expenditure requirement. Any sharp surge in the government borrowing programme would further dampen the sentiment across financial markets.

At this point, I'd like to take a reference from a very interesting speech delivered by Mr. Harish Manwani Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Ltd. at the company AGM. He spoke about "Leadership in a VUCA world". VUCA a term coined by US Army War College stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. There is probably no better term to describe our experience as either investors or market participants in the equity markets over the last few years.

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