Secret to Safe Stock Investments

A class 8th teen girl who became a mother after being raped by a neighbour was issued a transfer certificate by a school in Bangalore. Threats from the rapist kept her silent and she went through medical complications before giving birth to a child. The school obviously thought that keeping the girl in the school would dent their reputation and wanted to throw the girl out of the school. In such situations the victim is generally abandoned and is left hapless on her fate. However in this girl’s case two unexpected support – one from her parents who have stood by her and filed a petition in the court against the school’s decision; and second the Karnataka High Court that has ruled in favour of the girl and instructed the school to take her back in the school. But for the girls and family any respite seems to be still a distant dream. As per reports the family continues to be harassed and boycotted by the locals.


According to yet another khap panchyat like ruling, a group in Ranchi, the state capital of Jharkhand has warned girls against wearing jeans and tops and have threatened them with dire consequences should they dare to do so!

From Ranchi to Bangalore, our society has treated girls and women like doormat, loading their dirt on them and then throwing them away for being subject to that mess.

In giving their due to girls and women the society shall do no favour to the former. In fact they shall be doing favour to themselves.

Take for example, the latest research report by the Credit Suisse research institute, created in the year 2008 to study the trends to affect global markets. According the report, companies with women on their boards performed better in challenging markets than those with all-male members in their boards. The research, which includes data from 2,360 companies, shows a greater correlation between stock performance and the presence of women on the board after the financial crisis started four years ago. Some of the important findings published in the report are:

1. Shares of companies with a market capitalization of more than $10 billion and with women board members outperformed comparable businesses with all-male boards by 26 percent worldwide over a period of six years.

2. Stocks of companies with women on boards tend to be a little more risk averse and have on average a little less debt, which seems to be one of the key reasons why they've outperformed so strongly in this particular period.

3. Net income growth for companies with women on their boards has averaged 14 percent over the past six years, compared with 10 percent for those with no female director.

4. The net-debt-to-equity ratio at companies with at least one female director was 48 percent, compared with 50 percent at all-male boards

5. Still there are many industries, worldwide, that do not promote women to their boards.

So finally the secret to making right investments in stocks is out! The next time you think of investing in stocks, look at the baord profile of the company. If you don't find any women, better play safe.

Anyways, I have said this before, I shall this again – a society that treats its girls and women with respect, does good to itself and its future. When a man gets educated, he runs a family, but when a girl or a women gets educated she transform the entire family and many a times the next few generations to come.

Those people harassing the teen victim or the group dictating women on what they should wear are cursed and are digging their own graves and may be for their future generations.