FULLY SOLVED BOOK LASY 5 YEARS PAPERS SOLVED PLUS GUESS
Quantitative Techniques
Section 1 Introduction : Concepts of investment
Unit 1 Financial and non-financial forms of investment
Unit 2 Objectives of financial investment, investment methods.
Unit 3 Security and non-security forms of investment
Unit 4 Sources of investment information- Investment Instruments.
Section 2 Financial markets
Unit 5 Primary and secondary markets– major players and instruments in secondary market.
Unit 6 Functioning of stock exchanges, trading and settlement procedures at NSE & BSE..
Unit 7 Stock markets guidelines on primary & secondary markets.
Section 3 Valuation of securities
Unit 8 bond and fixed income instruments valuation –bond pricing theorems
Unit 9 duration of bond and immunisation of interest risk, term structure of interest rate
Unit 10 determination of yield curves, valuation of equity and preference shares (Dividend capitalization & CAPM).
Section 4 Analysis of risk & return
Unit 11 Concept of total risk, factors contributing to total risk, systematic and unsystematic risk, default risk, interest rate risk, market risk, management risk, purchasing power risk.
Unit 12 Risk & risk aversion.
Unit 13 Capital allocation between risky & risk free assets-Utility analysis.
Section 5 Behaviour of stock market prices
Unit 14 The market mechanism, testable hypothesis about market efficiency
Unit 15 implications of efficiency market hypothesis for security analysis and portfolio management.
Unit 16 Asset pricing theories, CAPM & Arbitrage pricing theories.