Certificate in Capital Market

This Course Consist of the following contents- 1.FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, INSTRUMENTS AND MARKETS -Why Financial Markets, Assets and Liabilities, The Concept of a Balance Sheet, Market Classifications, Market Intermediaries, Bid and Ask Price, Stock Exchanges, Long and Short Positions, Orders. 2.EQUITY CAPITAL MARKETS -Nature of Equity, Book Value and Market Value, Stock Splits and Reverse Splits, Stock Dividends, Voting Rights and Preferred Shares, Convertible Preferred Shares. 3.BONDS AND DEBT CAPITAL MARKETS -Plain Vanilla Debt, Valuation of a Coupon, Par, Discount and Premium Bonds, Zero Coupon and Floating Rate Bonds, Callable and Puttable Bonds, Yields, Rating Agencies. 4.MUTUAL FUNDS AND PENSION FUNDS -Mutual Fund Basics, Open-End and Closed-End Funds, Net Asset Value (NAV), Loads, Expense Ratio, Categorization of Funds, Exchange Traded Funds. 5.DERIVATIVES OVERVIEW AND PRICING -Forward Versus Futures Contracts, Forward Versus Futures Exchanges, Call and Put Options, Hedgers, Arbitrageurs, The role of futures and options markets, Value at Risk (VAR), Margins and marking to market, Clearinghouse, Introduction to Options, Exercising Options, Rights and Obligations, Put-Call Parity, Naked Call, Long Put. 6.FOREIGN EXCHANGE -Spot Exchange, Bid and Ask Quotes, Forex Arbitrage, Forward Market, Synthetic Rate.