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SYLLABUS

 (1)     Introduction to Investment Environment:                 

• Introduction to Investment Environment: Introduction, Investment Process, Criteria for Investment, Types of Investors, Investment V/s Speculation V/s Gambling, Investment Avenues, Factors Influencing Selection of Investment Alternatives.
• Capital Market in India: Introduction, Concepts of Investment Banks its Role and Functions, Stock Market Index, The NASDAQ, SDL, NSDL, Benefits of Depository Settlement, Online Share Trading and its Advantages, Concepts of Small cap, Large cap, Midcap and Penny stocks.

 

(2)     Risk-Return Relationship:                                  

Meaning, Types of Risk- Systematic and Unsystematic risk, Measurement of Beta, Standard Deviation, Variance, Reduction of Risk through Diversification. Practical Problems on Calculation of Standard Deviation, Variance and Beta.

 

(3)     Portfolio Management and Security Analysis:         

• Portfolio Management: Meaning and Concept, Portfolio Management Process, Objectives, Basic Principles, Factors affecting Investment Decisions in Portfolio Management, Portfolio Strategy Mix.
• Security Analysis: Fundamental Analysis, Economic Analysis, Industry Analysis, Company Analysis, Technical Analysis – Basic Principles of Technical Analysis, Uses of Charts: Line Chart, Bar Chart, Candlestick Chart, Mathematical Indicators: Moving Averages, Oscillators.

 

(4)     Theories, Capital Asset Pricing Model and Portfolio Performance Measurement:

• Theories: Dow Jones Theory, Elliott Wave Theory, Efficient Market Theory.
• Capital Asset Pricing Model: Assumptions of CAPM, CAPM Equation, Capital Market Line, Security Market Line.
• Portfolio Performance Measurement: Meaning of Portfolio Evaluation, Sharpe’s Ratio (Basic Problems), Treynor’s Ratio (Basic Problems), Jensen’s Differential Returns (Basic Problems).