“Indian Financial System-A Brief Overview”

The economic development of a nation is reflected by the progress of the various economic units, broadly classified into corporate sector, government and household sector.  While performing their activities these units will be placed in a surplus/deficit/balanced budgetary situations.
There are areas or people with surplus funds and there are those with a deficit.  A financial system or financial sector functions as an intermediary and facilitates the flow of funds from the areas of surplus to the areas of deficit.  A Financial System is a composition of various institutions, markets, regulations and laws, practices, money manager, analysts, transactions and claims and liabilities. The word "system", in the term "financial system", implies a set of complex and closely connected or interlined institutions, agents, practices, markets, transactions, claims, and liabilities in the economy.  The financial system is concerned about money, credit and finance-the three terms are intimately related yet are somewhat different from each other. Indian financial system consists of financial market, financial instruments and financial intermediation.

A Seminar was organized for the Spring Summer 2007/09 students regarding the overview of the Indian Financial System. The Seminar started by a brief introduction about the Indian Financial System as well as the evolution of the System and the present scenario. Followed by the future prospects. Mr. Ramachandran interacted brilliantly with the students about the subject and helped the students to grab the concept. And Ms. Tejshree Kapoor , being a visiting faculty at IIPM, for the same subject, spoke very fluently. Overall it was a great learning experience for the students.

"BULLS AND BEARS-The Market Mantra"
Speakers: Prof. Ashok Anand: Director Sidvin School of Business
Prof. Laksmi Rangarajan , Doctrate in Economics and Academician

The Seminar started with a wonderful Question "Why Bulls and Bears and not Cats and Dogs?" A question that made the students think. This set up the tempo nicely. The students never expected a question like this in the very beginning of the seminar. The answer was structured nicely. The BULL is a person who believes that the Market prices, especially of stocks will increase and thus always speculates an increase, now since a BULL attacks its target by putting its head down and then attacks upwards, this terminology emerged. Similarly a BEAR is a person who always believe that the market prices, especially the stock, will decrease and since a bear always attacks downwards, this terminology emerged.
The first speaker was Ms. Lakshmi Rangarajan, doctrate in Economics and an Academician. She spoke about the Debt Markets in India, sharing insights from her Thesis on the same. She explained the basics about debt markets in India, its present scenarion as well as the future projections. She also explained about the Yield Curve and about Corporate bonds.

The second speaker was Prof. Ashok Anand, Director, Sidvin School of Business. He started with defining the basic terminologies used in the stock exchange , like, A Bull, A Bear, Auction, Pay in , Payout, Sensex, Nifty, etc,etc. His speech was extremely informative and very interactive. He rounded off nicely by giving his mantra to the students about how to become rich, the mantra was a very simple one "Save and Invest".

SEMINAR ON STRESS MANAGEMENT - "BEAT THE STRESS"
DATE : 23rd February 08
BATCH - FW0709 and UGP 0710

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. Nothing Attracts Success Like Success. We must have faith in ourselves and what we can accomplish.
Then we can pass on this feeling of empowerment, enriching our lives and the lives of others as well. There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
In today's world of ever increasing competition, stress seems to be the major infection that we all are suffering from. Right from the time when we are born till the time we die, we suffer for stress and as stress increases a point comes when our performance level decreases. One has to be fit all the time to win this rat race and thus the saying goes "Survival of the fittest".

On 23rd of February, 2008, Mr. Amar Ingavale , Clinical Psychologist, Manipal Cure and Care and Dr. Pooja, MBBS, Manipal Cure and Care, interacted with the students of the Fall Winter 2007/09 batch and the UGP 2007/10 batch. They explained in details about the various reasons, why stress develops, the symptons associated with stress and how to overcome it to be fit. They explained with the help of a lot of live examples, which fascinated the students. The students were absolutely thrilled after the seminar as they found out various ways of managing stress.

INDIA TIMES STRATEGY SUMMIT – KEN BLANCHARD

Under the Indiatimes Strategy Summit, with whom IIPM is associated as the academic partner, the world's leading trainer and motivational speaker, Ken Blanchard exclusively interacted with the students of the FW06/08 and SS06/08 batches from IIPM Bangalore on Tuesday, 31 January 2006.

Few people have impacted the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. A leading management expert whose impact as a speaker, trainer and consultant has been felt for over three decades.

Ken elaborated that for any organization today to survive in the long term, it is clear that it has to be customer driven, cost effective, fast and flexible and continually improving.

He is also discussed about his situational leadership model, which outlines 4 different leadership styles that can be adopted depending on the situation or task. The model applies to people in leadership or management positions as well as at home.

He said he has come to India for the first time in a public forum, to teach people, everything they’ve learned about outstanding leadership.

INDIA TIMES STRATEGY SUMMIT-PLAY FAIR ORGANIZATION
Date: 20th April 2007
Venue: Le Meridian

Managing to Have Fun at Work identifies a clear connection between good humor, good health and good business. People who have fun on the job are more productive, more creative and get along better with co-workers.

Through the presentation of research findings, practical examples and fun-filled audience interactions, the program irresistibly demonstrated how to use humor to create a motivated, quality-conscious work-team.

Students had the opportunity  understood how to create an atmosphere of community spirit and celebration, increased productivity and a healthier work life.

BRIAN TRACY

Under the Indiatimes Strategy Summit, with whom IIPM is associated as the academic partner, the world's leading trainer and motivational speaker, Brian Tracy exclusively interacted with the students of the FW06/08 and SS06/08 batches from IIPM Bangalore on Tuesday, 21 November 2006. In the 90 minute interaction he spoke on a range of issues starting from the secrets of success in ones career to how to go about choosing the perfect career for oneself. Drawing on his vast experience (over 40 years) and his expertise on the area of advising individuals and corporates through his highly succesful seminars, programs and books, he outlined the principles he deems necessary for achievement. He said that the one question he has been researching all these years has been simple 'What makes some people more successful than others?'. The answers he had got was what he shared with the students who had a brief round of Q&A as well at the end.
Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.
Brian Tracy has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 4,000,000 people in 4,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 40 other countries worldwide. As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year
He has studied, researched, written and spoken for 30 years in the fields of economics, history, business, philosophy and psychology. He is the top selling author of 40 books that have been translated into dozens of languages.

The NEXUS Series
The SMART Series
The Calliber Series
The HARVEST Series by Deccan Herald
CAREER ORIENTATION - Beginning of Mentorship
The PULSE Series

The NEXUS Series
(Powered by E2)

Topic: The 21st century and our search for simultaneity

Presented By: Mr. Subroto Bagchi
Co founder and COO
Mindtree Consulting

Date: 18th January 2006

The Indian Institute of Planning and Management, Bangalore in association with the Economic Times club hosted Mr. Subroto Bagchi, the co founder and COO of Mindtree Consulting for the ET Knowledge Forum on 18th January 2006 at the IIPM Bangalore campus in Koramangala.

Mr. Bagchi delivered an interactive session on ‘The 21st century and our search for simultaneity’. He pointed out how simultaneity referred to as ‘zero latency in an organism’ and an evolved organization will mimic the activities of the organism.


The SMART Series
(Powered by 4P’s)

Topic: Competitive Marketing Strategies

Presented By: 
Mr. Mohan Bhaktha
Asst. GM Int’l Banking Division
State bank of India




Mr. Anish Anand
Manager, Sales and Marketing, Corporate Marketing and Public Affair
3M India Ltd




Mr. Amit Gupta
Director
Quest Beyond Frontiers




Date: 2nd February 2006

4P’s, the marketing and advertising club of IIPM Bangalore conducted a forum on competitive marketing strategies as a part of Endeavour 2006 SMART seminar series. The aim of the seminar was to explore the ways in which marketing strategies are developed, implemented, evaluated and improvised in today’s business scenario. Students had an opportunity to interact and get inputs from Mr. Mohan Bhaktha, Asst. GM Int’l Banking Division, SBI; Mr. Anish Anand, Manager, Sales and Marketing, Corporate Marketing and Public Affairs, 3M India Ltd and Mr. Amit Gupta, Director, Quest Beyond Frontiers.

The Calliber Series
(Powered by CMC)

Presented By:
Mr. Vishnu Murli
Senior Marketing Manager
Aztec




Mr. Bhaskar Reddy
HR Head
Tally Solutions




Mr. Sudhir Jaiswall
Head
Mind Flower Entertainment




Mr. Jure Biechonski
Creator
Transactional Hypo–analysis




Chief Guest: Mr.Bhaskar Roy
Senior GM
Marketing-Reva

Date: 7th March 2006

In today’s pragmatic corporate world blatantly some of the strategies are not in line with their planning and execution. Companies typically realize only about 50% of potential value of their strategies because of defects and break downs in planning and execution, and on the other side of the coin, planning and execution are accurate but the strategy may not have sufficient potential to rely upon. Along with this there are myriad reasons for the strategy to performance gap, eventually focus should be on bridging the gap. This seminar “Turning Great Strategies into Great Performances” was furnished to address these eminent issues.

The HARVEST Series by Deccan Herald
(Powered by 4P’s)

Topic: Marketing on the Global Stage

Presented By: 
Mr. Lalith Sheth
Chairman and MD
Shree Raj Travels and Tours Limited

Mr. Warwick Brady
CEO
Air Deccan

Mr. Atul Phadnis
Chief Evangelist
Media e2e

Ms. Punitha Arumugam
Group CEO
Madison Media

Mr. G Shankar
MD
Lifestyle International (Pvt) Ltd

Mr. Girish Bapat
VP-Marketing
LG Electronics India Ltd.

Venue: Taj West End

Date: 4th February 2006

A Novel initiative from the 4ps club wherein the four brightest marketing students of each class (from the 05/07 batch) were nominated for the HARVEST, A marketing seminar organized by Deccan Herald. 4Ps sponsored the students for the day long event at The Taj West End on Saturday, 4th February 2006 beginning at 9 AM.

The initiative provided these students with a launch pad for widening their knowledge horizon by being exposed to the crème de la crème of the corporate world. The four students were selected based on their overall performances in marketing area subjects in the first trimester as well as their overall performances in the institute.

TOPIC: CAREER ORIENTATION - Beginning of Mentorship

Presented By: 
Mr. Shivprakash
Director-International Business Development
Kasper Ltd.

Mr. V. Krishnan
Ex HR Head
MICO

DATE: 1st July 2006

Objective of this seminar was to

• Orienting the students as what the corporate world is all about with respect to getting a job in the marketing
• Brief them on what things an individual needs to follow being a fresher in the corporate world.

Prof. Shiv Prakash:

• He spoke on learning & realizing one’s goals , how to keep oneself motivated to achieve these goals which included, how to detach oneself from others opinions on certain issues,
• Not to let your past events derail you but make you stronger from what one has learnt.
• He spoke on issues that would help a student to start focusing on what he/she would be looking at.
• He also added on Time Management, stating the importance of time in each individual lives.

Prof. Krishnan:

• He spoke on what it is that corporates look for in MBA freshers during interview.
• What all students need to prepare on before the interview and how to carry themselves for the interview.

The PULSE Series
(Powered by FINEX)

Topic: “Re-Inventing Finance”-The financial Sector in the 21st century.

Presented By: 
Dr. Prasanna Chandra
Director
Centre for Financial Management




Prof. K. Ashok Anand
Director
Sidvin Institute of Management




Mr. Bharan Kumar
Vice President- Operations Risk Management
ING Vysya Bank




Date: 6th June 2006

Finex—The Finance Club of IIPM hosted the latest seminar in the Endeavor 2006 series at IIPM Bangalore on 6th June 2006. Titled ‘Re Inventing Finance: The Indian Financial Sector in the 21st century’, the seminar delved into issues facing the financial sector in India today. The panel consisted of Dr. Prasanna Chandra (Director, Center for Financial Management), Prof. K Ashok Anand (Director, Sidvin Institute of Management) and Mr. Bharan Kumar (VP, Operations Risk Management, ING Vysya Bank) who discussed various aspects of the sector.

The event opened with a brief overview of the agenda by two members of the Finex club, Namrata Rao and Suhas S, who painted a broad brushstroke of the financial sector in India. The sector is the fastest growing in the economy zooming at about 15% a year and the boom in the stock markets, insurance and banking bear testimony to that. But they raised the question: Is the sector ready for the future?