B. Karthik

Investment is the process of ‘Sacrificing something now for the prospect of gaining something later. It is an economic activity which involves creation of assets or exchange of assets with profit motive. Eventhough utmost care should be taken by the Individual investors while making investment decisions. Because sometimes emotions such as fear and greed may play a vital role while making their investment decisions. Keeping this in mind the authors in this paper make an attempt to analyse the attitude of the individual investors on select investments in Chidambaram taluk of cuddalore district. The study has been conducted among 100 individual investors living in different parts of Chidambaram taluk through a structured questionnaire. There is a general view that the research work should even be understood by the young budding research scholars. Keeping this in view no statistical tools have been used in this research paper.

A simple, precise and sensitive reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatographic method was developed and validated for the simultaneous estimation of Ramipril and Metoprolol tartarate in pharmaceutical formulations. Chromatographic separation was performed on a High performance liquid chromatography equipped with auto sampler and UV detector. Good sensitivity for all analyte was observed with UV detection at wavelength of 218 nm, Separation was performed on a BDS Hypersil C18 (250 X 4.6mm) 5µm, using a mixture of 0.1% Triethylamine buffer pH 3.5 and Acetonitrile in the ratio of (10:90, v/v). The method results in excellent separation with good resolution between the two analytes. The within day variation %RSD values between Ramipril and Metoprolol tartarate were 0.55 and 0.82. The recovery was greater than 98% with %RSD less than 1.00. The method was validated according to ICH guidelines by performing linearity, accuracy, precision, limits of quantitation and selectivity. The results show the method is suitable for its intended use.