M.COM. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
Third Semester
Commerce
FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. What is Financial asset?
2. Write a note on Money market.
3. What is speculative transaction?
4. What are Group A shares?
5. What is specialized fund? Given an example.
6. What is Venture Capital?
7. What is depository?
8. Define forfeiting.
9. Write short note on GDRs.
10. What is Exchange rate?
Sub. Code
4MCO3C3
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Wk6
Part B x 5 25)
Answer all questions.
11. Write a brief note on the financial guarantees
market operating in India.
Or
What are financial Instruments? What are their
characteristics?
12. What are advantages of listing?
Or
What are defects of Indian stock market?
13. Distinguish between commercial bank and
merchant bank.
Or
Discuss the scope and importance of venture
Capital in India.
14. Discuss the drawbacks of the depository system and
suggest measures to make it an efficient one.
Or
Critically assess the role of forfeiting as a source of
financing.
15. What are the significance of portfolio investment?
Or
Write down the importance of global market.
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Wk6
Part C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Classify the various financial intermediaries functioning
in the Indian financial system and bring out their
features.
17. Explain the method of trading in a stock exchange.
18. Elucidate the guidelines for Merchant bankers issued by
SEBI.
19. Discuss in detail the various services rendered by
factoring intermediaries.
20. Explain the determinants of foreign exchange.
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