• Roles, functions, and career opportunities in investment banking.
• 4 main areas of Investment Banking Activity 
  > Capital Markets
  > Advisory
  > Trading & Brokerage
  > Asset Management

• Equity Capital Markets
  > Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) pricing, share allocation
  > Post-IPO stabilization (long/short position, Greenshoe option)
• Debt Capital Markets
  > Types of Bonds
  > Securitization

• Advisory
  > Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
  > Types of M&A (Private deals, Auctions, Listed firms)
  > Valuation
  > Restructuring services
• Trading & Brokerage
  > Trading and Brokerage division
  > Types of securities traded
• Asset Management
  > Risk-return comparison of different investments
  > Private equity funds

• Introduction to Financial Markets
• Different financial markets, like equity, debt, derivatives, and commodities markets.
• Functions and Participants of the Markets.
• Brokers

• Why to Invest?
• Returns and Inflation
• How To Choose the Best Investment
• Active Income and Passive Income

• Shares V/s Stock
• Demat Account Vs Trading Account
• Bear & Bull Market
• Concept of Value Investing
• 3 Financial Statements - you must not miss while picking stocks to invest

• Futures Payoffs
• Options and types
• Option Premiums & Types of Option Payoffs
• Options Pricing
• Styles of Exercising Options

• Introduction to Swaps
• Interest Rate Swap- Hedging, Speculation
• Equity Swap- Hedging, Speculation
• FX Swap- Hedging, Speculation
• Credit Default Swap, Settlements, Credit Events, Types, Terminologies
• Currency Swaps- Hedging and Speculation
• Settlement Process of Different Swaps
• Trade Economics of Different Swaps

• What is Corporate Action
• Purpose and Types of Corporate Action
• Important Dates in Corporate Actions
• Trade Life Cycle in Corporate Action Events
• Trade Life Cycle (TLC) – Exchange
• Traded Product TLC & OTC
• Front Office Operations
• Mid Office Operations
• Back Office Operations

• Modeling the Financial statements, Ratio analysis
• Analyzing Cash Flows
• Calculating the Valuation of the company
  > Mechanism of Unlevered cash flow calculation
  > Introducing a discount factor – Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
  > Calculating a firm's cost of debt
  > Calculating a firm’s cost of equity
  > Estimating a company’s future cash flows
• Calculating FCFF, discount, terminal rate, and NPV Comparable Companies
• Data Collection and Data Structuring
• Preliminary Scrutiny of the Data & Information
• Modeling
• Modeling Revenue Build-up –projecting the future revenues

• Introduction to Equity
• Equity Shares
• Preference Shares 
• Depository Receipts - Types of ADR, Advantages of ADR and GDR
• Difference between ADR and GDR
• Primary & Secondary Markets
• Issuance/Trading
• IPO Process – Indian Markets
• Stock Exchanges (SEBI guidelines) & Financial Centres of the World
• Trade Economics for Equity Markets

• Introduction to Fixed Income
• Fixed Income & Advantages of Fixed income products
• Bonds and its Characteristics 
• Relation Between Interest Rate and Bond Price & Yield and Bond Price
• Current Yield, YTM, Clean price, Dirty Price, Accrued Interest
• Process of Securitization – MBS & ABS
• Discussion on Credit Crisis

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