Company Profile Founded by IIT/IIM professionals with experience in investment banking and private equity, Pristine is one of the largest institutions for finance trainings in India. Pristine has some of the most savvy investors such as Accel Partners, Dr. Mark Mobius (Franklin Templeton) and Rajesh Sehgal (Franklin Templeton). Pristine is the pioneer of open source [...]

We are pleased to announce that we have received Series A funding from Accel Partners. Incidentally the first announcement of this news, we shared on our community on Facebook, a company which has received funding from Accel Partners as well.

    It’s a great honor for us that Dr. Joseph Mark Mobius has invested in Pristine. This investment has been made in his personal capacity as an individual shareholder. In the pictures, besides Mark are Pristine’s directors Atul Kumar and Pawan Prabhat along with Rajesh Sehgal, Senior Executive Director with the Emerging Markets Group (EMG) [...]

CFP Certification Syllabus
Module 1: Introduction to Financial Planning
Module 2: Risk Analysis and Insurance Planning
Module 3: Retirement Planning & Employee benefit
Module 4: Investment Planning
Module 5: Tax Planning & Estate Planning
Module 6: Advanced Financial planning
There is no Exam for Module I; however questions based on this module would be included in exams for Module 2 – 5.

Is there a market for financial planning
-The Indian economy is growing at a breath-taking speed of 15.9% p.a. compared to global average of 5.2% during 2000 to 2005.
-In absolute numbers the economy has grown from US $ 268 billion in 2000 to US $ 559 billion in 2005
-The incremental wealth is reflected in the number of home-grown millionaires (US $ terms) in India, which presently stands around 83000 and is still growing at a rate of 15% every year.
-To sustain the growth, we need qualified Financial Planners who will not only help people to manage and grow their money but also play a major role in allocating household surpluses to fuel the growth.

Everyday we come across questions on when, whether and who should give CFA, FRM exam? Does qualifying these exams ensures a job?
CFA, FRM exams are prestigious worldwide recognized degree exams. They give professional designation to financial analysts who complete a series of exams.
It’s not mandatory that you have to be a professional in finance domain to appear for this exam. These days, engineers, doctors and professionals from other backgrounds who want pursue a career in finance domain opt for these exams.
Qualifying these exams don’t ensure a job but certainly can give you an edge over others. It would be an add on qualification to your career and resume. Companies shortlist the prospective employee’s CV through searching their database on important terms like “CFA”, “FRM“, if these terms appear in your resume, your resume become’s a potential candidate’s CV.

Pristine is proud to announce that owing to its commitment to quality education in finance its faculty has been selectedto act as an visiting faculty for National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) course – Certificate in Financial Engineering and Risk Management (CFERM). NISM has been established by SEBI to promote securities market education and research. [...]

Embedded Options It is common to grant issuers and bondholders an option to take an action against the other party regarding the owed money, either with the principal or the coupons. Such options have a significant effect on the behaviour of the bond price because of the potential modification of the cash flows that the action may cause. Although not explicitly priced in the market, the options carry implicit economic value and are reflected in the prices of the bonds. These options are known as embedded options.