What are Shell Companies ? : While addressing the CA fraternity on the occasion of Chartered Accountants day on 1 July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hinted that stringent action would be taken on shell companies which are defunct when it comes to real operations. Following this, there was a massive crack down by the Ministry of … Read more
Book building: Book building is a popular method in the context of an Initial public offer, used to determine the price at which the shares have to be offered. SEBI guidelines define Book Building as “a process is undertaken by which the demand for the securities proposed to be issued by a body corporate is elicited … Read more
Reverse Book building: Reverse Book Building is a mechanism by which the Acquirer/Company offers to buy back shares from its shareholders. Securities and Exchange Board of India has issued the SEBI (Delisting of Equity Shares) Regulations 2009 providing for voluntary delisting of equity shares from stock exchanges along with the overall framework for voluntary delisting by … Read more
Institutional Placement Programme (IPP): This is one of such methods available to Indian listed companies for the purpose of complying with minimum public shareholding requirements by raising additional share capital. In the light of a guideline that mandates the listed companies to raise their public shareholding to 25% by limiting the promoter’s shareholding to a maximum … Read more
Different types of investors in stock market: Learn about the different types of investors and their behaviors in share market and mutual funds. 1. Retail Individual Investors: As per the SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009, retail individual investor means an investor who applies or bids for specified securities for a … Read more
Circuit filters: Circuit filters is a regulatory mechanism used by the stock exchanges to prevent the market volatility. Markets often see stock prices moving up and down very drastically accelerated by the investor’s sentimental decisions and the choices made by the speculators. To curb the excessive price fluctuations, circuit filters are set by the exchanges with … Read more
High Frequency Trading is one of the specialized methods of algorithmic trading. As per the Securities and Exchanges Commission of the United States High Frequency Trading involves the following: The use of extremely sophisticated and high-speed computer programs for generating, routing, and executing orders The use of individual data feeds from exchanges as well as … Read more
What are Inter Institutional Deals and Bulk deals?: Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs), Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), and Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) are allowed to invest in the primary and secondary capital markets in India through the portfolio investment scheme under which, FIIs/NRIs can acquire shares/debentures of Indian companies through the stock exchanges in India. How, … Read more
IPO Grading: As per The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), “IPO grading is the grade assigned by a Credit Rating Agency (CRAs) registered with SEBI, to the initial public offering (IPO) of equity shares or any other security which may be converted into or exchanged with equity shares at a later date. The grade … Read more
Total Return: An index is basket of securities taken the prevailing market prices. When we look at the most commonly referred Indian stock indices such as Nifty, Sensex etc. we realize that they are simple price indices. A simple price index considers only the gains made in the form of capital appreciations. It does not include … Read more
Swing trading: It is a type of trading where the trader attempts to make profits out of the short time price movements by holding the securities for a period varying from 2-3 days to few weeks. It involves buying at low price with a hoping that the swinging pattern will make the security price high in … Read more
BSE BOND: is a separate platform facilitated by Bombay stock exchange for issuance of debt securities on private placement basis through an electronic book mechanism. Private placement is a mechanism in which a company by way of issue of a private placement offer letter to a select group of persons to subscribe to the securities … Read more
Market Stabilization Scheme (MSS): This is a scheme under which Reserve Bank of India (RBI) withdraws excess liquidity by selling the government securities to Banks and financial institutions to control the excess availability of currency in the economy. This is one of the policies that came into existence by an MOU between the Reserve Bank of … Read more
Difference between Main board IPO and SME IPO, check out complete details for what is Main board IPO and what is SME IPO. Check Key differences between Main board (regular) IPO and SME IPO from below… Main board IPO: Initial public offer is the 1st time invitation by the company to the public offering its securities for … Read more
Algorithmic trading: Algorithmic trading is a system of trading the securities in the stock market in which trading decisions take place by using advanced mathematical tools and complex algorithms. An algorithm is a computer program having a series of steps to solve a problem. It is a trading mechanism in which the technology dominates the decision … Read more
Offer for sale (OFS): Offer for sale is a separate window facilitated by the stock exchanges wherein Promoter/Promoter Group Entities/ Non Promoters of an already listed company can sell their shares through an exchange based bidding platform. This was initially permitted by SEBI to enable the Promoters of listed companies to meet the minimum public shareholding … Read more
SME Platforms facilitated by BSE and NSE are the best way for the small and medium sized companies to go public and list on the stock exchanges. These platforms which have specially designed for small and medium enterprises are the major contributors to SMEs who want to make it big. However, if an SME want … Read more
Fixed price method: In an Initial public offering (IPO), if the shares are offered at a fixed price, such is issue is known as Fixed price issue. This is the second most preferred way of Initial public offering. In the offer document, the issuer has to give the reasoning and proper justification for the price fixed. … Read more