Abstract :
To have an idea on Capital Market, it is very much essential to know important instruments inter alia used in primary and secondary segments of capital market. Capital market instruments are those instruments which are used by the corporate entities for raising medium and long term funds from the capital market. Capital market instruments used for market trade are of two types direct capital market instruments and indirect capital market instruments. The direct instruments are equity ordinary shares, preference shares, debentures bonds notes and innovative debt instruments. Among these, securities like equity and preference shares are ownership instruments while debentures bonds notes and innovative debt instruments are creditor ship securities. Derivative instruments and others are the indirect instruments. This article contains a profile on various concepts and terminologies relating to instruments used in the capital market of India. At first, various conventional instruments of capital market have been discussed. Then, some important concepts and terminologies relating to non conventional instruments for trading on Indian bourses have been discussed.
By Prasanta Kumar Dey "Capital Market Instruments in India - A Profile"
Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-6 , October 2018,
URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd18478.pdf
Paper URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/management/accounting-and-finance/18478/capital-market-instruments-in-india---a-profile/prasanta-kumar-dey
Keyword :
Bonds, Debentures, Derivatives, Funds, Securities, Shares