study of capital markets

Name: study of capital markets
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This course enables to study about the nuances of capital market

Created byBhavishya Sri Perumal

Last updated 2/2025

English

What you'll learn

capital markets and related concepts
financial markets
stock markets
Bond Market

Course content

10 sections • 73 lectures • 6h 28m total length

Introduction2:56
Basics of capital market4:44
primary market and secondary market6:56
The capital market mobilizes resources and enables price discovery and settlement, differentiating primary markets for new issues like IPOs and listings from secondary markets where investors trade existing securities.
Basic terms4:01
Types of issues2:26
Private and public company2:15
Contrast public and private companies, noting that public firms may issue a prospectus and invite the public, with options like private placement, rights issue, and bonus issue.

IPO-An introduction12:14
Offer8:02
Pricing in an IPO6:36
Book Building-Practical case8:37
Learn how book building, as a price discovery method, governs IPO bid collection, cumulative demand, price ranges, cutoff price, and allotment decisions.
Book building-11:28
Book building-22:02
Red herring prospectus3:50
categories of investors3:07
Understand the three investor categories—retail investors, non-institutional investors, and qualified institutional buyers (QIBs)—with examples such as banks, mutual funds, FIIs, pension funds, and provident funds.
Intermediaries7:39
Offer details3:51
IPO grading3:58

Introduction5:52
Basics of shares7:27
Equity shares-24:22
Equity shares with differential rights10:59
Example of equity shares with differential rights2:58
Bonus shares3:29
Practical examples3:26
Share premium11:33
Preference shares10:29
Practical example on preference shares5:26
Equity and preference share capital3:10
Advantages and disadvantages3:10
Right Shares7:16
Rights issues provide existing shareholders with a preemptive right to subscribe to additional shares at a price below market value, raising capital non-dilutively.
Sweat Equity shares4:52
Employee Stock option4:06
Buy back introduction5:38
Define buyback as the reacquisition of a company's own securities, returning money to investors; globally, shares may be held as treasury stock or extinguished, with India following the extinguish approach.
Buy back reasons8:52
Buy back case study 14:34
Buy back case study 23:33
Infosys carried out a 2019 open-market buyback at Rs 800 per share, buying about 10.3 crore shares (14.5% of paid-up capital and free reserves) with face value Rs 5.
Basics of debentures3:45
Non convertible debentures4:21
Types of debentures2:38
Explore debentures as long-term debt instruments, including trustee, secured and unsecured forms, bearer and registered, redeemable or non-redeemable, with low cost of capital and tax-deductible interest, versus preference shares.

Derivatives5:35
Forward contract6:13
Future contract7:50
Difference between forward and future4:37
Difference between cash and derivative market3:59
Other points3:13
Types of future contract0:39
Identify the main types of future contracts, including currency futures, index futures, commodity futures, and interest rate futures.
valuation of futures8:40
Stock future and index future10:25
Advantages of stock index5:04
Long position and short position5:24

Intro6:02
Call Option11:03
Explore how a call option works, including strike price of 270, premium costs, and exercise versus lapse scenarios, illustrating profits when prices rise and losses limited to premium.
Put Option5:52
Call graph4:05
Put graph3:59
Shows the put option payoff with a 40 strike, 5 premium, breakeven at 35, and notes the mirror image of a long call.
Difference between option and future2:59

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Description

Capital markets are where savings and investments are channeled between suppliers and those in need. Suppliers are people or institutions with capital to lend or invest and typically include banks and investors. Those who seek capital in this market are businesses, governments, and individuals. Capital markets are composed of primary and secondary markets. The most common capital markets are the stock market and the bond market. They seek to improve transactional efficiencies by bringing suppliers together with those seeking capital and providing a place where they can exchange securities.

Capital markets refer to the venues where funds are exchanged between suppliers and those who seek capital for their own use.
Suppliers in capital markets are typically banks and investors while those who seek capital are businesses, governments, and individuals.
Capital markets are used to sell different financial instruments, including equities and debt securities.
These markets are divided into two categories: primary and secondary markets.
The best-known capital markets include the stock market and the bond markets.

The term capital market is a broad one that is used to describe the in-person and digital spaces in which various entities trade different types of financial instruments. These venues may include the stock market, the bond market, and the currency and foreign exchange (forex) markets. Most markets are concentrated in major financial centers such as New York, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

This course is a self study course. The course should be studied in full to understand all the aspects. This course serves as a beginners guide to capital markets.

Who this course is for:

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Course content

Introduction6 lectures • 23min

IPO11 lectures • 1hr 1min

Shares and debentures22 lectures • 2hr 2min

Stock Exchange and capital market instruments4 lectures • 17min

Derivatives11 lectures • 1hr 2min

Bonus lectures-Options6 lectures • 34min

Bonus Lectures-Bonds4 lectures • 20min

Types of Bonds5 lectures • 22min

Basic terms used in Bonds1 lecture • 9min

Bonus Lectures _Mutual Funds3 lectures • 18min

Requirements

Description

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