Indian capital market, with well over 22 stock exchanges, 10,000 listed companies, 20 million investors transacting securities worth more than Rs. 100 billion every year is next only to that of USA. The corporate investors are badly in need of a dictionary to trace out the meanings of the technical words and concepts. Terms often used in securities analysis are also touched upon. This dictionary also covers definitions of important commercial terms used in investment management.
An attempt has been made to enable the reader to find quickly an explanation, not merely a definition, without seeking for it among several textbooks.
As a book of reference, the dictionary will be useful to academicians, practitioners such as investors, brokers, asset management companies, accountants, bankers, issue managers, speculators, mutual fund companies, leasing firms, FIIs, venture capitalists, financial managers, underwriters engaged in financial market and finally students of MBA, CA, ICWA, CFA, ACS, M.Com., etc. It will also prove useful to the common reader who has little or no knowledge of investment and financial affairs in his ordinary life.
Dr. K.C.S. Ranganayakulu is a Reader and was Head of PG Centre between 1983-95 at VRS and YRN College, Chirala (AP). He has a brilliant academic record and holds his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Andhra University which had pioneered MBA in India prior to IIMS. He has attended and presented papers at several national and international seminars and as a prolific writer he has contributed over a dozen research papers to reputed journals and directed one UGC sponsored national seminar on ‘Liberalisation and Managerial Challenge’. He has teaching experience of more than twenty years in Financial Management. He is academic counsellor to IGNOU, Pondicherry and Annamalai University MBA program offered through distance mode and authored ‘Securities, Portfolio and Investment Management’. He has both theoretical and practical knowledge of operations of stock market.