Bancassurance: An overview
Thesis - 28 pages - Finance
The purpose of distribution channel is to make the right quantity of the right product available at the right place and at the right time. Distribution is supposed to create time, place, and possession utility. A distribution channel is expected to perform the selling function of moving through...
Marine insurance
Dissertation - 33 pages - Finance
The beginning of the insurance business is traced to the city of London. It started with the marine business. Marine traders, who used to gather at Lloyd's coffee house in London, agreed to share losses to goods during transportation by ship. The first insurance policy was issued in England in...
All you wanted to know about insurance
Dissertation - 39 pages - Finance
Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of potential financial loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a potential loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium and duty of care. The rate of...
Motor vehicle insurance in India
Dissertation - 42 pages - Finance
There has been a sudden rise in the population of motor vehicles and motor accidents in the last few years. Much of these are attributable to increase in the number of vehicles. Every vehicle before being driven on roads has to be compulsorily insured. The motor insurance policy represents a...
Pricing futures
Case study - 61 pages - Finance
Stock index futures began trading on NSE on the 12th June 2000. Stock futures were launched on 9th November 2001. The volumes and open interest on this market has been steadily growing. Looking at the futures prices on NSE's market, have you ever felt the need to know whether the quoted prices...
Equity valuation
Thesis - 29 pages - Finance
Equity shares can be described more easily than fixed income securities. However, they are more difficult to analyze. Fixed income securities typically have a limited life and a well-defined cash flow stream. Equity shares have neither. While the basic principles of valuation are the same for...
A detailed report on Bajaj Allianz Life insurance and its competitors
Case study - 41 pages - Finance
Every individual's ultimate goal is to seek financial security for himself and his family members. In today's world of rising prices and uncertain markets, the resources available to fulfill needs and aspirations are limited. A planned approach helps to realize almost all dreams, needs and...
The stock exchange and the big industries of India
Dissertation - 39 pages - Finance
Stock market is a broad term, which involves a number of markets in which securities are brought and sold. Stock markets often rise and fall. Before knowing why the stock markets are so volatile, let us understand about stock market and the investment options available to a potential investor....
Portfolio management and investment decision
Case study - 42 pages - Finance
A portfolio is a collection of securities since it is really desirable to invest the entire funds of an individual or an institution or a single security, it is essential that every security be viewed in a portfolio context. Thus it seems logical that the expected return of the portfolio....
A study on the role of derivatives and investors perceptions on it
Case study - 55 pages - Finance
A derivative is a generic term for specific types of investments from which payoffs over time are derived from the performance of assets (such as commodities, shares or bonds), interest rates, exchange rates, or indices (such as a stock market index, etc). This performance can determine both the...
Compliance requirements for stock brokers: The Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd
Dissertation - 42 pages - Finance
One of the most dynamic fields of business is the Capital Market. It is considered one of the most promising markets in the world. This is because of the sea change that the market has undergone from the early 90's. The market is now automated, transparent and self-driven. The Indian Financial...
A look at American Depository Reports
Thesis - 15 pages - Finance
Since 1980, the value of U.S.investment in non- U.S.equities has grown approximately 100-fold to $1.9 trillion .The first ADRs were introduced in the United States in 1927 when JPMorgan issued receipts for the British retailer Selfridges. Prior to the 1980s,ADRs primarily were used by foreign...
Knowing more about electronic banking
Thesis - 27 pages - Finance
Electronic banking, also known as electronic funds transfer (EFT), is simply the use of electronic means to transfer funds directly from one account to another, rather than by cheque or cash. Internet banking system is a method by which a personal computer is connected by a network service...
The impact of FIIs on Indian National stock exchange and how effective the Government is in Liberalizing and controlling the National Stock exchange?
Dissertation - 40 pages - Finance
The intention of this research was to examine the impact of Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) on the Indian National Stock Exchange (NSE). To achieve the aims, the following objectives have been determined to study how FII plays an important role in National stock exchange; to study the...
Examining e - banking
Thesis - 33 pages - Finance
The acceleration in technology has produced an extraordinary effect upon our economy and, in general, has had a particularly profound impact on expanding the scope and utility of financial products over the last ten years. Information technology has made possible the creation, valuation, and...
Standard Chartered mutual funds
Thesis - 24 pages - Finance
Mutual funds are a topic, which is of interest to both investors and academicians all over the world. Mutual Funds as a medium-to-long term investment option are preferred as a suitable investment option by investors. However, with so many market entrants and a plethora of schemes available to...
Systems audit: Bombay Stock Exchange
Case study - 36 pages - Finance
Indian capital markets have witnessed radical transformation during the short period of a decade. There is hardly any country in the world which has witnessed such massive changes in its capital market during such a short period. During the early part of the 1990s, ranking of the Indian capital...
Banking and insurance: The money market
Case study - 26 pages - Finance
The money market is a market for financial assets that are close substitutes for money. It is a market for overnight to short-term funds and instruments having a maturity period of one or less than one year. It is not a place (like the Stock Market), but an activity conducted by telephone. The...
Market analysis of IPO business in India
Market study - 27 pages - Finance
Like several other goods, which require a market place for buyers & sellers to come together, shares, too need a market where they can be sold & bought. The markets where shares are sold bought are either primary market or secondary market. The primary stock market is the place where the new...
Mutual funds and other investment opportunities: Franklin Templeton Investments
Case study - 38 pages - Finance
Savings form an important part of the economy of any nation. With the savings invested in various options available to the people, money acts as the driver for growth of the country. Indian financial scene too presents a plethora of avenues to the investors. Though certainly not the best or...
An in-depth project on Barclay's Finance
Thesis - 14 pages - Finance
A financial system is the most important institutional and functional vehicle for the economic transformation of any country. Banking sector is reckoned as a hub and barometer of the financial system. As a pillar of the economy, this sector plays a predominant role in the economic development of...
A study on the futures trading at Kotak Securities Ltd
Case study - 47 pages - Finance
Kotak Securities Ltd. is India's leading stock broking house with a market share of around 8%. Kotak Securities Ltd. has been the largest in IPO distribution. The accolades that Kotak Securities has been graced with include Finance Asia Award (2004)- India's best Equity House Prime...
A study of behavioral finance in the Indian stock exchange
Case study - 32 pages - Finance
Much of economic and financial theory is based on the notion that individuals act rationally and consider all available information in the decision-making process. However, researchers have uncovered a surprisingly large amount of evidence that this is frequently not the case. Peter L. Bernstein...
Analysis of the banking sector with respect to six banks: Public sector & private sector
Case study - 19 pages - Finance
In this project six banks are taken on the basis of highest profits after tax. Three Banks are from the Public Sector and three from the Private Sector. First comes an analysis of the banking system which tells you about the Basel II norms which are applicable in India in every bank from 31st...
A look at the financial performance of a property developer group
Thesis - 58 pages - Finance
Due to ongoing advancements in technology, new legislation, and other innovation, the field of finance is rapidly changing. Introduction to finance develops the three components of finance in an interactive framework that is consistent with the responsibilities of all- financial professionals,...
Keeping records and its importance in finance
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Finance
Finance is recorded as the life blood of a business enterprise. This is because in the modern money-oriented economy finance is one of the basic foundations of all kinds of economic activities. It is the master key which provides access to all the sources for being employed in manufacturing and...
A study into mutual funds
Thesis - 15 pages - Finance
The mutual fund industry is a lot like the film star of the finance business. Though it is perhaps the smallest segment of the industry, it is also the most glamorous - in that it is a young industry where there are changes in the rules of the game everyday, and there are constant shifts and...
External commercial borrowing
Dissertation - 31 pages - Finance
The basic objective of the research project is to explore all the possible sources of raising a foreign currency loan and compare the cost advantages for the corporate on raising such a loan. The project also studies the available hedging mechanisms for the borrowing corporate; to protect it from...
A critical analysis of the investment patterns of people: A study of Standard Chartered mutual fund
Dissertation - 72 pages - Finance
Mutual funds are one of the most important segments of the financial system of the country. The financial system consists of financial institutions, banks, investment bodies, the capital market and money market intermediary instrument used in the capital market through which money resources are...
Investor behavior towards mutual funds with special reference to Reliance Capital Assets Management Ltd
Tutorials/exercises - 48 pages - Finance
The economy of a country is highly influenced by the Financial System of the country. The Indian Financial System has been broadly divided into two segments: the organized and the unorganized segments. An investor has a wide array of investment avenues available. Economic well being in the long...