Equity
Equity markets are among the oldest markets that have evolved to become sophisticated with all the derivatives and synthetic instruments. Their liquidity and vastness provides for highly customizable risk parameters.We handle various transactions in Equity markets and posses a broad skill set to value and analyze securities. Our research is top grade based upon every single minute details of security under consideration. We use top down or bottom up approach in security valuation and provide research that is accurate and reliable. We use different market-standard models and proprietary models to perform research and analysis. Our home grown SAR(TM) model rates securites using a 72 point system. Our suite of valuation and data tools also includes third-party market tools from top vendors for calibration and synchronization purposes.

Fixed Income and Derivatives
Government and corporate debt and fixed income instruments are considered lower risk vehicles and can be applied to provide leverage in investment decisions or fine tune risk tolerance in portfolios. Interest Rate swaps and derivatives have proven to be most rapidly growing markets and now transact in trillions of dollars. These markets provide a effective method to hedge investments and speculate based on trustworthy research, that our clients expect from us.

Unlike equity markets, fixed income market research is quite complex with several factors impacting the decision like, levels of interest rates, shape of yield curve, FOMC policy, country/industry ratings etc. On top of these traditional aspects, structured vehicles carry many other complications by their nature. Sellside will structure instruments to look quite appealing with some fine prints. Shastri Advisors' fixed income analysts provide the right advise by researching all the factors and zooming into the fine prints.

Furthermore, our parent Shastri Advisors deals in fixed income market to transact in corporate, government and municipal bonds, mortgage pools and derivatives and interest rates swaps and derivatives. We use separate vendors to perform faster transaction for bonds and swaps. Our vendors provide us with high liquidity in swaps and interest rate derivative markets. Interest rate investments include vanilla and exotic options and various structured notes. Our suite of valuation tools include in-house and third-party valuation tools and IT libraries.

Credit Derivatives
Credit derivatives are the fastest growing markets and currently trade in billions of dollars. Credit derivatives provide insurance against various fixed income instruments in the event of default, rating downgrade or bankruptcy. Today credit derivatives come in securitized form as well. Shastri Advisors can provide the right advise for clients by researching what to protect and what not in order to get the best result our of investments. Our parent, Shastri Advisors uses credit derivatives to hedge against unexpected loss in fixed income investments. Especially, with the securitized form of these derivatives it becomes very easy and efficient to apply them to investment portfolios.

Emerging Markets
There have been a lot of investments and expectations from Emerging Markets, specially BRIC's (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Investments are being diversified by investing in emerging markets like China, India, Russia, Brazil and Chile. There is a lot of potential in these countries. We deal in various areas in emerging markets including equities, fixed income and even real estate, which for quite some time in past has proven to give higher returns. Investments in emerging markets require a lot of research due to lenient regulations and local laws and lower liquidity. Our analysts provide reliable and valuable research for companies in various industries. But we are not limited to BRICs, but also research countries with undiscovered potential to grow. For instance, thinking out of the box will make us advise real estate investments in Maldova.

Foreign Exchange
Foreign exchange is one of the oldest and most speculative market that tends to have high risk profile. Foreign Exchange plays a big role in all global investments whether it be emerging market real estate investments or ADR's in equity markets. Its easy to think that an arbitrage opportunity exists when a BRIC country is paying way higher for a CD than a developed country. But smart investors know that it is not that easy. IRP holds and therefore, investors have to speculate on both the direction of FX rate and the levels of interest rates in both countries and there are even more factors that affect the exchange rates like FOMC policy, economic condition, trade balances etc. Shastri Advisors has the right skill set to help you with in making this decision.

Furthermore, our parent, Shastri Investment Bank, uses prime brokerages that provide high liquidity and volume for all FX investments. The dealer quotes have minimum bid-ask spreads because we know that every penny saved anywhere in investments is an extra penny earned for our clients.