To familiarize the students with different investment alternatives, introduce them to the framework of their analysis and valuation and highlight the role of investor protection. Learn about financial markets and instruments, investment strategies.
• Concept of Savings and investments, Elements of investments, sources of investment information,
• Types of investments, Investment Avenues, Basic concept of Risk & Return, measurement of risk and return
• Primary and secondary market, Functions of stock exchange on India.
• SEBI: Role of SEBI in investor protection, investor grievances and their redressal system,
• Insider trading, Investor awareness activism.
• Features of equity shares & Preference shares. Features of debentures & bonds.
• Valuation of equity shares, preference shares, debentures and bonds.
• Fundamental Analysis (EIC approach),
• Technical Analysis- (Chart, Pattern and Oscillators) Bar chart, Line Chart Candle chart, Trend Head and Shoulders, support and Resistance , Dow and Elliot wave theory
• Efficient market hypothesis
• Portfolio and diversification meaning, Portfolio risk and return.
• Portfolio construction: Traditional and modern portfolio approaches. Portfolio construction process.
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2. Chandra Prasanna, Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, TMH.
3. Rustogi, R.P. Fundamentals of Investment, Sultan Chand & Sons, New Delhi.
1. Vohra, N.D. and Bagri, Futures and options, Mc Graw hill Publishing.
2. Mayo. An Introduction to Investment. Cengage Learning.