amba Research is a Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) firm providing investment research and analytics support services to the

global capital markets industry.[1][2] The firm has delivery centers in Bangalore (India), Colombo (Sri Lanka) and San Jose (Costa Rica), with sales offices in New York (USA), London (UK) and Singapore. Amba Research offers investment research services across multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and credit, and quantitative research, while also providing financial institutions services such as sales and marketing support, regulatory compliance support, and corporate finance services Amba Research was founded in 2003 by four senior directors of research from Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan Andrew Houston was formerly a Managing Director and Head of Asia Research at JP Morgan/ Jardine Fleming Mohan Alexander has 23 years of research experience including serving as Deputy Head of Asia Research and Head of India Research at firms such as Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers Brad West set up Deutsche Bankss global emerging markets equity research function and served as Managing Director and Head of Global Emerging Markets and Asia Equity Research at the firm Anand Aithal was formerly the head of Goldman Sachs' co-branded research joint venture and a managing director at the firm. He has over 20 years of experience in the capital markets industry in management and research roles in the US, Europe and Asia.

PORTFOLIO Portfolio is a financial term denoting a collection of investments held by an investment company, hedge fund, financial institution or individual.
Following are the two types of Portfolio: 1. Market Portfolio 2. Zero Investment Portfolio

PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT
The art of selecting the right investment policy for the individuals in terms of minimum risk and maximum return is called as portfolio management.

Opportunity cost
Opportunity cost is the cost of any activity measured in terms of the value of the next best alternative forgone (that is not chosen).

Debenture
A debenture is a document that either creates a debt or acknowledges it, and it is a debt without collateral. In corporate finance, the term is used for a medium- to long-term debt instrument used by large companies to borrow money

Definition of 'Beta'
A measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. Beta is used in the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), a model that calculates the expected return of an asset based on its beta and expected market returns.. Beta is calculated using regression analysis, and you can think of beta as the tendency of a security's returns to respond to swings in the market. A beta of 1 indicates that the security's price will move with the market. A beta of less than 1 means that the security will be less volatile than the market. A beta of greater than 1 indicates that the security's price will be more volatile than the market. For example, if a stock's beta is 1.2, it's theoretically 20% more volatile than the market.

WACC'
Broadly speaking, a companys assets are financed by either debt or equity. WACC is the average of the costs of these sources of financing, each of which is weighted by its respective use in the given situation. By taking a weighted average, we can see how much interest the company has to pay for every dollar it finances. A firm's WACC is the overall required return on the firm as a whole and, as such, it is often used internally by company directors to determine the economic feasibility of expansionary opportunities and mergers. It is the appropriate discount rate to use for cash flows with risk that is similar to that of the overall firm.

Regression analysis
n statistics, regression analysis is a statistical technique for estimating the relationships among variables. It includes many techniques for modeling and analyzing several variables, when the focus is on the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. More specifically, regression analysis helps one understand how the typical value of the dependent variable changes when any one of the independent variables is varied, while the other independent variables are held fixed. Most commonly, regression analysis estimates the conditional expectation of the dependent variable given the independent variables that is, the average value of the dependent variable when the independent variables are fixed. Less commonly, the focus is on a quantile, or other location parameter of the conditional distribution of the dependent variable given the independent variables.