Equity Market: An Introduction
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740305944
Table of contents: title: Sisältö; title: Context & Essence; title: Learning outcomes; title: Introduction; title: The financial system in brief; title: The money and bond markets in a nutshell; title: Essence of the equity market; title: Statutory backdrop to shares and share market; title: Equity derivatives; title: Summary; title: Bibliography; title: Instruments; title: Learning outcomes; title: Introduction; title: Ordinary shares; title: Preference shares; title: Negotiable instruments representing equity; title: Summary; title: Bibliography; title: Investors; title: Learning outcomes; title: Introduction; title: Ownership distribution; title: Motivation for holding equity; title: Statutory environment for investors; title: Measures of return; title: Other concepts of return; title: Risks faced in holding financial assets; title: Risk predisposition; title: Measurement of risk in the financial markets; title: Relationship between risk and return; title: Risk and return: the record; title: Summary; title: Bibliography; title: Primary market; title: Learning outcomes; title: Introduction; title: Economic function of primary market; title: The law, the equity exchange and listing; title: Motivation for listing (advantages); title: Disadvantages of being listed; title: Listing requirements; title: Types of companies that list; title: Listed products other than shares; title: Methods of listing; title: Steps involved in a listing; title: The prospectus; title: Underwriting of a share issue; title: Other sources of primary issue of listed equity; title: Summary; title: Bibliography; title: Secondary market; title: Learning outcomes; title: Introduction; title: Definition; title: Significance of secondary market; title: Structure of secondary equity market; title: Participants in secondary market; title: Trading system: automated trading; title: Mechanics of dealing (from point of view of client); title: Clearing and settlement; title: Cost of dealing; title: Equity market indices; title: Equity market efficiency; title: Summary; title: Bibliography; title: Valuation; title: Learning outcomes; title: Introduction; title: Balance sheet valuation approach; title: Discounted cash flow approach; title: Relative valuation approach; title: Equity valuation, inflation and interest rates; title: Summary; title: Bibliography; title: Endnotes