Meaning and Scope - Need for financial services - Types of financial service - Challenges facing the Financial Service Sector - Characteristics and role of financial intermediaries - Depository Institutions and financial services.
: Mutual Funds - Meaning - Evolution - Types - Mutual Fund Organisation - Advantages and Disadvantages of Mutual Fund - Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) - Real Estate Investment Trusts (ReITs) - Infrastructure Investment Trusts (Invits) - Venture capital – Importance- Methods of Venture Financing –Venture Capital in India.
Meaning-Objectives- Types- Benefits –Credit Rating Methodology- Credit Rating process- Rating revisions -Credit Rating agencies in India – CRISIL – ICRA – CARE – Financial Institutions: IFCI – IDBI – ICICI – SFC.
Capital Market - Primary Market - New Issue Market – Domestic and Global - Private Placement, QIP, Disinvestment - Right Issue. Capital Market - Secondary Market - Stock Market Operations- Indian Debt Market.
Basics of Money Market - Money Market Participants - Money Market Instruments - Repo and Reverse Repo - CRR, SLR - MIBOR, LIBOR - Government Securities Market. Commodity Market: Commodity Market –Meaning-Role of Commodity Markets - Commodity Market in India.
Reference Book:
1. Khan M.Y, “Financial Services”, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, Seventh Edition, 2018, ISBN-10:9780071333351. 2. Sadhak H, “Mutual Funds in India”, SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2nd edition 2015. ISBN-10: 9780761997955. 3. Mahesh Dr. Kulkarni and Suhas Dr. Mahajan, “Capital Market and Financial Services”, NiraliPrakashan, 2nd edition (1 January 2014). ISBN -10: 9351644510. 4. Lalit K.Bansal, “Mutual Funds: Management and Working”, Deep & Deep Publication, New Delhi, tenth edition, 2000, ISBN -10: 8180545288.
Text Book:
1. Gordon and Natarajan, “Financial Markets and Services”, Himalaya Publishing House, New Delhi, eleventh revised edition, 2019. ISBN -10: 9789352991488.
