Santosh Acharya's Blog

I remember that year—it was 2009 when I first signed up for Facebook. Then, making random posts, comments, and tags, to having around 10 social profiles, didn't just happen overnight. It was fun to learn and grow with time. In the last 19 years, I have used 3 feature phones ☎️ and 5 smartphones 📱, and created emails in Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail, which was an unexpected shift for me. Now, I am lecturing on social media analytics, learning a lot about search engines and their algorithms, sharing insights on social media, and also pinpointing the importance of such platforms for small-to-multi-national companies to create brand value and expand their market presence. Now that AI is embedded in their algorithms, the issue of #data_governance stands at the top of any country’s laws. DATA has become more popular, powerful, and influential for everyone involved in local-to-national-to-regional-to-global platforms. I am overwhelmed with the scale of its existence and expansion. I feel...

If you are looking for investment options in Australian financial market, you are in the right spot.  Let's start with the major four options for every potential investors. 1. Stocks  2. ETFs 3. LICs &  4. Funds For any of these investment ideas, click here . This article mainly focus on stock market.  1. Stocks - Stocks are traded through the exchange called Australian Security Exchange (ASX). The Australian share market is broken up into 11 Sectors, 24 Industry Groups, 69 Industries and 158 Sub-Industries.  Here are the detail break-down of 11 sectors. Largest sector is Materials that has 41.4% and the list companies listed sector is Ultilities with round 1%. Australia's 11 GICS sectors each have a benchmark index that tracks the performance of ASX-listed companies in that sector. You can observe the sectoral movement here .  You have to chose your sector where you understand their language. You also need to think about diversifying yo...