Financial and economic meaning of Investment - Characteristics and objectives of investment - Investment alternatives - Choice and Evaluation - Concept of risk and return - Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act.
Financial Market - Segments - Types - Participants in financial Market - Regulatory Environment, Primary Market - Methods of floating new issues, Book building - Role of primary market - Stock exchanges in India - BSE, OTCEI, NSE, ISE - Regulations of stock exchanges - Trading system in stock exchanges - SEBI
Economic Analysis: Forecasting Techniques, Industry Analysis: Industry, Classification, Industry life cycle. Company Analysis: Measuring Earnings, Forecasting Earnings, Applied Valuation Techniques. – Graham and Dodds investor ratios.
Fundamental Analysis Vs Technical Analysis – Charting methods – Market Indicators. Trend –Trend reversals – Patterns - Moving Average – Exponential moving Average – Oscillators – Market Indicators – Efficient Market theory. ROC, MACD, RSI
Portfolio analysis –Portfolio Construction - Portfolio Selection –Capital Asset Pricing model – Portfolio Revision – Portfolio Evaluation – Mutual Funds.
Reference Book:
1 S. Kevin, “Security Analysis & Portfolio Management”, Prentice Hall of India, 2nd Edition, 2015. 2 Donald E Fischer & Ronald J Jordan, “Security Analysis & Portfolio Management”, Prentice Hall of India, 6th Edition: 2008. 3 Prasanna Chandra, “Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management”, Tata McGraw Hill, 3rd edition, 2008. 4 Frank K Reilly & Keith C Brown, “Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management”, Cengage Learning, 2011.
Text Book:
1. Punithavathy Pandian, “Security Analysis & Portfolio Management”, Vikas Publishing House Private Ltd, 2nd Edition, 2014. Edwin J Nijssen, “Entrepreneurial Marketing: An effectual approach”, 1st edition, Routledge, 2014.