Investment Management and Stock Market
Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. The process of investment management: 1. Investment management: strategies for successful investing/R.K. Gupta. 2. Measurement of risk and return/A.K. Vashisht. 3. Portfolio construction and evaluation/A.K. Vashisht. II. Stock market in retrospect: 4. Organization and structure of stock market in India/A.K. Vashisht and S.V. Malhotra. 5. Recent changes in stock market in India/M. Sheikh Mohamed and M. Kalaiselvi. 6. Weather of stock market in India/Ravi K. Gupta and S.K. Sharma. 7. Changing scenario of stock market in India/T. Satyanarayana Chary and B. Kishore. 8. Indian stock market: at cross roads/Swami Prasad. 9. Rejuvenating stock exchanges: Indian experiment/Lalit K. Bansal. 10. Present status of stock market in India/H.S. Sidhu. 11. Indian stock market in the new millennium/E. Mubarak Ali and A.M. Mohamed Sindhasha. 12. World stock exchange: an overview/Monita. III. Stock exchanges and the financial markets: 13. New issue market/R.K. Dixit and Bikramjit Kaur. 14. The role of financial institutions and mutual funds in the stock market/Somesh Kumar Shukla and Shobhit. 15. Current position of mutual funds in India in the era of globalisation/Paramjit Kaur. 16. Market capitalisation and multiple listing: its influence on stock price behaviour/Kalyan Mukherjee. 17. Employee stock option scheme: some critical issues/Bhavini Tejpal and R.K. Gupta. IV. Trading in financial derivatives: 18. Trading in derivatives/Bikramjit Kaur. 19. Emerging trends in the derivative market in India/Poonam Aggarwal and Vibha Mahajan. 20. Derivative financial instruments: some issues/A. Saha. 21. Derivatives: the study of futures and options in comparison to cash market/Rajesh Marwaha. 22. Trading derivatives in Indian stock market/Dhananjoy Rakshit. 23. Stock futures in the derivative family: an evaluation/R.K. Raul. 24. Financial derivatives: an effective instrument for corporate risk management/Pramod Kumar. 25. Dynamics of derivatives/Renu Vij. V. Emerging stock trading mechanism and tax incentives: 26. Performance evaluation: a case study of NSDL/R.K. Gupta, Ramesh Kondle and S.K. Jain. 27. Depositories: a successful reform in Indian stock market/Sanjeev Mehta and Anupam Arora. 28. An overview of insider trading in India/R.K. Gupta. 29. Tax incentives and planning for investment in stock market/Pawan Kumar Taneja. Appendix: Important terms used in stock market. Bibliography. Index.
"Stock market occupies an important position in the national economy of a country. It facilitates the mobilization of the savings of individuals and pools them into reservoir of capital, which can be deployed for the economic development of a country. Efficient stock markets are the key to the raising of capital by the corporate sector of the economy and the protection of the interest of the investors. In the last decade far reaching developments have taken place in the working of the stock market, which has influenced the operations of all the players of stock market. Present stock market is significantly different from what it used to be in eighties and before. There appears to be new opportunities, challenges and threats in the stock market.
In the light of the above developments it was thought proper to bring out an book on the theme of "Investment Management and Stock Market". For this purpose articles/research papers were invited from the experts and the academicians on the subject from all parts of the country. In all 28 contributions dealing with various aspects of investment management and stock market were selected to be included in the present book. The contributions of different authors have been divided in five parts dealing with different aspects of investment management and stock market:
The process of investment management
Stock market in retrospect
Stock exchanges and the financial markets
Trading in financial derivatives
Emerging stock trading mechanism and tax incentives." (jacket)
