1. Prologue
  2. L2/P1: Debt securities: Credit Rating, Bond-Yield, Muni.Bonds, SEBI norms
  3. L2/P2: Inflation Indexed Bonds (IIB), Nominal vs Real Interest rates
  4. L2/P3: T-Bill, G-Sec, Zero Coupon Bonds, Bearer Bonds & misc. instruments in Money Market
  5. L2/P4: Equities: IPO, E-IPO, ADR-GDR-IDR, Bonus shares, preferential shares & Underwriters
  6. L2/P5: P-Notes, ETF, Hedge Funds, Mutual funds
  7. L2/P6: Derivatives, Call Option, Put Option, Credit Default Swaps (CDS)

Prologue

  • Fourth lecture was done on 6th February 2015, and uploaded on youtube. Total ~2:30 hours but I’ve split it into six parts.
  • PowerPoint of the lecture, available at Mrunal.org/Download
  • Medium of instruction- Hindi.
  • English version not possible for the moment, because I’m required to teach at this batch, in Hindi/Gujarati only. Besides, same content is available in English-text articles and English PPTs on the site.

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L2/P1: Debt securities: Credit Rating, Bond-Yield, Muni.Bonds, SEBI norms

Language: Hindi, Topics Covered

  1. Recap of banking sector lectures and minor updates as per latest monetary policy review (Feb 2015) and Committees for Small banks and Payment Banks
  2. What is finance? Why should we start business with finance from elsewhere?
  3. Type types of Financing mechanism: Debt Instrument vs Equity instruments
  4. What is credit rating? What is India’s current credit rating? What factors affect it?
  5. What’s the difference between Gilt Edged securities vs. Junk Bonds
  6. What is bond yield and yield to maturity (YTM)?
  7. How can higher bond yield and lower credit rating hurt a Government?
  8. Difference between Bonds and Debentures?
  9. Municipal bonds: History, their Importance in financing smart cities, SEBI’s 2015 guidelines for Municipal bonds.
  10. OFCD and other types of Debentures

Youtube Link: http://youtu.be/woc6X7XX9Qc

L2/P2: Inflation Indexed Bonds (IIB), Nominal vs Real Interest rates

  1. What is the difference between nominal interest rate vs real interest rate?
  2. Why do people invest in gold and real-estate during inflation?
  3. Why is excessive gold-consumption bad for Indian economy? How to prevent it?
  4. Differences between IIB an IINSS-C
  5. Computation mechanism for interest paid on IIB, how is it linked with inflation?
  6. Why are inflation indexed bonds (IIB) losing their sheen in 2015?

Youtube Link: http://youtu.be/ThHyLb_teoU

L2/P3: T-Bill, G-Sec, Zero Coupon Bonds, Bearer Bonds & misc. instruments in Money Market

  1. Classification of Financial market: Money market, Capital Market Primary market and secondary market.
  2. What are the differences between Treasury-Bills (T-Bills) and Government securities (G-Sec)
  3. Coupon bonds, Zero Coupon Bonds, Bearer Bonds- features, differences
  4. What’s the purpose of Ways and Means Advances (WMA)
  5. Misc. Debt instruments in Money market: Commercial Papers, Certificate of Deposits, Commercial Bills, Call money, Notice money.

Youtube Link: http://youtu.be/__fI1BX7tRM

L2/P4: Equities: IPO, E-IPO, ADR-GDR-IDR, Bonus shares, preferential shares & Underwriters

  1. Explain IPO, Public issue, Red Herring prospectus and underwriters.
  2. Share value- par value, face value and premium?
  3. Explain IPO pricing mechanism: Fixed price vs Book-Building methods
  4. Company’s retained earnings
  5. FPO and SEBI reforms
  6. Bonus Issue, Rights issue, preferential shares.
  7. ADR, GDR, IDR, Bharat Depositary receipts- features, benefits

Youtube Link: http://youtu.be/Ne6kdt8C_tM

L2/P5: P-Notes, ETF, Hedge Funds, Mutual funds

  1. Mutual funds, NAV, Exit Load, types of MF and AMC- Asset management companies.
  2. Exchange traded funds- purpose, mechanism, how are they different from Mutual funds?
  3. Hedge funds, Alternative investment funds, SEBI norms
  4. Participatory Notes (P-Notes), Issues of Hot Money, Capital Gains tax (CGT) evasion), money laundering and SEBI norms

Youtube Link: http://youtu.be/KwdaI143A7w

L2/P6: Derivatives, Call Option, Put Option, Credit Default Swaps (CDS)

  1. What are derivative financial instruments, forward-future contracts?
  2. How were derivative instruments responsible for sub-prime crisis?
  3. What is Option agreement? What’s the difference between Call option and Put Option?
  4. Credit default swaps – purpose, benefits.

Youtube Link: http://youtu.be/3lEt6HJy2II