MODULE - 01

1) Distinguish between investment and speculation.

2) What are the important attributes of investment?
3) Five difference between an investor and a speculator.
4) Difference between financial and economic investment.
5) Difference between investment, speculation and gambling.
6) Difference between real assets and financial assets.
7) What is investment? What are the features of Good investment?
8) What is Capital Market? Explain the Capital Market Instruments?
9) Explain concepts of investment.
10) Give a detailed account of non security forms of investment
11) Differentiate between financial and economic investment.
12) Describe the steps involved in the investment process
13) Differentiate between investors and speculator.
14) What is Money Market? Explain the Money Market Instruments?
15) What are the various sources through which investors can get stock market
information? discuss
16) Briefly explain important objectives of investment.
17) Outline the reasons for the emerging popularity of investment in today’s world.
18) Explain the attributes that one should consider while evaluating an investment.
19) What is investment? Explain the process of investment.
20) Explain the financial instruments?
21) Differentiate between Capital Market and Money Market.
22) What are the various forms of Investment Alternatives? Give a detailed account of
any five.
23) Explain the attributes that one should consider while evaluating an investment.
24) Explain the following money market instruments. (a) Treasury Bills (b) Commercial
Paper (c) Certificate of Deposit (d) Repo (e) CBLO
25) What are Derivatives? Give Examples
26) Write a note on types of investors.
 MODULE - 02

1) What is the role of underwriter in primary issue?

2) Primary and secondary markets are complementary, but their organizational
structures are different. – comment
3) How does NSE function? Explain settlement procedures?
4) What are the sources through which investors can get stock market information
discuss?
5) Briefly describe the steps involved in a public issue.
6) What are the economic factors influencing the analysis of equity stock? Discuss.
7) What is a Green Shoe Option?
8) Who are the parties involved in the new issue market?
9) What is book building?
10) Explain the three important ways in which a company may raise equity capital in the
primary market.
11) Explain briefly the Bombay Stock exchange sensitive index (Sensex) and the S&P
CNX Nifty Index (Nifty)
12) Explain the key macro economic variables and their impact on stock market?
13) Explain the clearing and settlement process followed in NSE
14) Distinguish between Bullish markets and bearish markets.
15) Discuss the utility of stock market index.
16) What is depository? What is its role in stock trading?
17) What are the roles of primary dealers in G – Sec Market?
18) Explain the ways of collecting capital from primary market through equity.
19) What is Sensex ?
20) Briefly explain the process of clearing and settlement in stock trading.
21) How does the NSE functions? Explain the settlement procedure at NSE
22) Describe the process involved in a public issue.
23) Write a note on NSE and BSE
24) What are the functions of stock exchanges? How are they managed?
25) Discuss the functions of NSE, BSE and OTCEI
26) What are the steps taken by SEBI in the primary market to protect the investors ?
27) What are margins ? Explain the different types of margins.
28) What is dematerialization and rematerialization ?
 MODULE – 03

1) “Unsystematic risk can be minimized, systematic risk can be managed” - Do you agree?
How?
2) What is risk? What are its types? Explain factor affecting them.
3) Distinguish between diversifiable risk and non-diversifiable risk.
4) How investment can be classified based on their risk taking ability?
5) Elucidate the types of risk an investor will face.
6) Define the term optimal portfolio and depict the same with a neat diagram.
7) What is Risk? Explain the various types of risk.
8) What is portfolio revision?
9) How does systematic risk affect the individual stock return?
10) Define risk and distinguish between systematic and unsystematic risk.
11) How does systematic risk affect the individual stock return?
12) What are the statistical tools used to measure the risk & return of the securities? Explain

MODULE – 04

1. What is meant by coupon rate and zero interest bonds?

2. What Does a Bond In debenture Contain?
3. Mention The Theories Of Them Structure Of Interest Rates.
4. What is Yield curve?
5. What Do You Mean By Duration Of Bond?
6. What is Bond Debenture?
7. Briefly Explain Different Bond Pricing Theorems.
8. Discuss The Key Determination Of Interest Rates.
9. Discuss The Theories, Which Help In Determining The Interest Rate Of Bonds.
10. Define Bond? What are the features of Bonds?
11. Explain the different types of Bonds?
12. What are determinates of interest rates?
13. Describe the strategies for managing a bond portfolio.
14. What is bond indenture?
15. Differentiate between share warrants and share certificate
16. What are the reasons for issuing bonds?
17. What are warrants?
18. What is yield to maturity?
19. What is green shoe option?
20. “Stocks are considered to be risky but bonds are not”. This is not fully correct – Elucidate
21. How would you assess the present value of a bond? Explain the various bond value
theorems with examples.
22. What is a coupon rate?
23. What is meant by duration? Explain the relationship between duration and price change.
24. How would you immunize the bond portfolio using the immunization technique?
 MODULE – 05

1) What is technical analysis and fundamental analysis

2) Distinguish between resistance and support in technical analysis?
3) What is RSI?
4) EIC approach helps to assess the intrinsic value of a share- substantiate.
5) What are the hypotheses of Dow Theory?
6) How does technical analysis different from the fundamental analysis? What are the
various charts used by technical analyst?
7) What is random walk theory? Explain the various forms of market efficiency.
8) Explain the utility of economic analysis and state the economic factors considered for
this analysis?
9) What are the forms of market efficiency? How are they tested?
10) Discuss some of the chart pattern in technical analysis?
11) Explain the macro economic factors considered in fundamental analysis?
12) Dispute the fact that the available evidence overwhelmingly suggests that historical
price data have no prediction value technical analysis has managed to survive and
even proper common?
13) Brief explain the various form of the market efficiency? State their implication
14) Explain the key macro-economic variables and their impact on stock market?
15) What is fundamental analysis? Explain its 3 levels framework.
16) Explain the key indicator of industry analysis?
17) Briefly explain the components of fundamental analysis?
18) Explain the various factor economy analyses?
19) What is random walk theory? What doesn’t project in its weak from, semi strong
form and strong form?
20) What is industry analysis? What are the factors to be considered in the industry
analysis? Why?
21) Write the salient features of Elliot wave theory.
22) What do you mean by market efficiency? Write a brief note on various forms of the
market efficiency.
23) Explain the basic principles and hypothesis of Dow Theory
24) “The first step in industry analysis is to determine the stage of growth through which
the industry is passing.” Explain
25) What is efficient frontier?
26) Explain the key indicators of industry analysis.
27) What is an efficient market? Explain the forms of market efficiency? Describe the
tests of different forms of market efficiency.
28) Discuss the key economic variables that an investor must consider as part of the
fundamental analysis.
29) Explain the components of fundamental analysis.
30) Fundamental analysis is superior to technical analysis – comment
31) Explain the technical indicators (a) New Highs and low (b) Short interest ratio (c)
Put/Call ratio (d) Trin statistic (e) Mutual fund liquidity.
32) How does ratio analysis reflect the financial health of the company?
33) Explain the key macro-economic factors considered in fundamental analysis?
34) Write a note on Efficient Market Hypothesis
35) Write a note on Business Cycles.
36) What is PIE ratio ?
37) Explain the technique of moving average analysis. What buy and sell signals are
provided by it.
38) Explain the interpretation of the Japanese Candle Stick chart with the aid of suitable
sketch.

MODULE – 06

1) How does SML differ from CML? Substantiate with an Illustration

2) Explain the assumptions in Markowitz model
3) Explain the CAPM. Differentiate between SML and CML
4) How do you identify the optimal portfolio using Markowitz model? Explain
5) What is CAPM? What are its basic assumptions
6) What is Arbitrage Portfolio? Mention the assumptions of Arbitrage Pricing Theory.
7) Explain Markowitz Portfolio Selection model
8) Explain Capital Asset Pricing Model
9) What is SML?
10) Differentiate between CAPM and APT
11) Explain Capital Asset Pricing Model and Arbitrage Pricing Theory. How are they
related?
12) What is an Efficient Portfolio?
13) What is meant by APT?
14) What is Efficient Frontier?
15) What is an Asset Management Company?
16) Define Markowitz diversification. Explain the statistical method used by Markowitz
to obtain the risk reducing benefit.
17) What is meant by Beta of a Stock?
18) What is meant by Markowitz efficient frontier?
 MODULE - 07
1) “Mutual fund offer best form of investment”. Discuss with the various schemes of
mutual funds.
2) What do you mean by corner portfolios?
3) “A mutual fund is an active portfolio”-why? Differentiate between closed ended and
open ended mutual funds. State the functions of AMC.
4) Discuss the strategies for portfolio revision.
5) What is meant by mutual fund? Explain its advantages and different schemes
available to the investors.
6) What is arbitrage portfolio? Mention the assumption of arbitrage pricing theory.
7) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages in mutual fund investments.
8) What does alpha of a mutual fund indicate?
9) What is meant by leveraged portfolio?
10) Briefly explain about the Sharpe’s, Treynor’s performance indexes?
11) Discuss briefly the key steps involved in the portfolio management process.
12) What is a comer portfolio?
13) Briefly describe the steps involved in portfolio management?
14) What is an efficient portfolio?
15) Discuss active strategy of portfolio revision.
16) Briefly explain the important objectives of an investment.
17) Write the Indian mutual fund industry.
18) Define the term optimal portfolio and depict the same with a neat diagram.
19) What is portfolio revision?
20) Explain the pros and cons of investing in a mutual fund.