A study on Investors Preferences towards various investment avenues in Capital Market with special reference to Derivatives. by Dr. K. RAVICHANDRAN‚ READER‚ Bharathidasan Institute of Management‚ (School of Excellence of Bharathidasan University)‚ Tiruchirapalli. Introduction: In India‚ generally all capital market investment avenues are perceived to be risky by the investors. But the younger generation investors are willing to invest in capital market instruments and that too very highly in Derivatives
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INTRODUCTION TO INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT The Concept of Investment: □ An investment is the current commitment of funds for a period of time in order to derive future benefits. □ Investing involves making a sacrifice in the present consumption in the hope of deriving benefits in the future. □ Every investment decision has two aspects; Risks and Returns: □ Every investor looks to be compensated for; i) Time the funds are committed ii) The expected rate of inflation
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Ethical investments are similar to traditional investments with only one difference. Both traditional and ethical investors pursue the same goal of capital gains‚ higher income and/or preservation of capital for future needs. "The major difference between traditional investors and ethical investors is that ethical investors do not want their investments going for things that cause harm to the social or physical environments. Instead they want their investments to support needed and life supportive
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additional details to those sections. Investing Basics Type of Investment Description—explain what it is and how it works. Level of Risk and Potential Return—explain. Real-life example of this investment (name or company) Minimum investment amount or time? Easy to start or stop investment? Discuss. CD Is an account where a saving note is issued by a bank to a depositor who places funds in savings for a set period. Is a relatively low-risk debt instrument. The potential return is that you reieve a
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24/02/2013 1 25721 INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Lecturers: Sean Anthonisz Nadima El-Hassan Jianxin Wang Brandon Zhu Subject Coordinator: Jianxin Wang Objectives 2 Why do you take this subject? What do you expect to learn? How much did you pay for this subject? Is this a good investment? Investment Decisions 3 How much should I invest in risky assets? How much should I invest in different risky assets? How many risky assets should I hold? When not to diversify? How to determine
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CHAPTER 18 Investment Decisions: Ratios Test Questions 1.Income multipliers: a. are useful as a preliminary analysis tool to weed out obviously unacceptable investment opportunities. 2.The overall capitalization rate calculated on a potential acquisition: a. is the reciprocal of the net income multiplier. 3.The operating expense ratio: c. expresses operating expenses as a percent of effective gross income. 4.The equity dividend rate: b. expresses before-tax cash flow as a percent of the
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RISK MANAGEMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INVESTMENT RISKS INTRODUCTION Risk in holding securities is generally associated with possibility that realized returns will be less than the returns that were expected. The source of such disappointment is the failure of dividends (interest) or the securities price to materialize as expected. FORCES INFLUENCING INVESTMENT RISKS External Sources of Systematic Risk: In investments‚ those forces that are external to the firm‚ uncontrollable and broadly
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FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS INFLUENCING INVESTMENT IN MUTUAL FUNDS - EIC APPROACH - A CASE STUDY OF RCAML - Prof. K.Viyyanna Rao* - Ms. Nirmala Daita** ABSTRACT The Indian mutual fund industry is witnessing a rapid growth as a result of infrastructural development‚ increase in personal financial assets‚ and rise in foreign participation. There are many of factors contributing to this phenomenon.
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Investment Banking in 2008 Group Report 1. Failure Analysis: Identify the major factors that contributed to Bear Stearns’s failure? Who stood to benefit from its implosion? How did Bear Stearns’s collapse differ from the ‘Long Term Capital Management’ failure a decade earlier? What could Bear Stearns have done differently to avoid this fate? In the early 2000’s? And during the summer of 2007? And during the week of March 10‚ 2008? (1) Identify
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USING PROJECT FINANCE TO FUND INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS Throughout most of the history of the industrialized world‚ much of the funding for large-scale public works such as the building of roads and canals has come from private sources of capital. It was only toward the end of the 19th century that public financing of large “infrastructure” projects began to dominate private finance‚ and this trend continued throughout most of the 20th century. Since the early 1980s‚ however‚ private-sector
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