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IGNOU MFP-05 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Meet a Stock Broker of your choice and analyze the role played by her/him in the Securities Markets? Try and identify the major activities that are carried out by the Broker. Also discuss the major challenges that are being faced by the Brokerage houses in India in recent times. Prepare a note on your discussions.
2. What do you mean by ‘Venture Capital Undertaking’? Explain the different stages of Venture Capital funding. Compare and contrast between concepts of ‘Venture Capital’ and ‘Private Equity’.
3. Meet the Branch Manager of an Insurance Company of your choice and discuss with her/him the different marketing and distribution Channels and Strategies of their Insurance Products. Write a note on your discussions.
4. Why do companies go for issue of ‘Employees Stock Option Plans’? Explain the compliance requirements for issuing the ‘Employees Stock Option Plans’.
5. Meet a Financial Advisor of your choice and find out the role played by her/him in financial markets. Also discuss the factors affecting the ‘Financial Advisory profession’ in India. Write a note on your discussions.
IGNOU MFP-05 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Meet a Stock Broker of your choice and discuss the role played by him/her and the major activities that he/she undertakes. Also discuss major changes that have taken place in the arena of Brokerage Houses in the recent times. Write a note on your meeting.
2. What do you understand by Dematerialisation of Securities? Explain its advantages to the Investors and the Companies. How does a Depository Account differ from a Bank Account? What services are rendered by a Depository? Discuss.
3. What is meant by ‘Due Diligence’? What are its main benefits? Describe the process of due diligence and constitution of the team for this purpose.
4. What is a ‘Mutual Fund’? How mutual funds are categorized on the basis of the investment objectives? Discuss the structure mutual funds in India.
5. What are the various routes through which securities are issued in the Equity and Debt markets? Discuss the various issues that are required to be taken care of while regulating the Public Issue of Securities.