Lessons in Excellence
Date: 2004
Venue: IIPM, Mumbai

The Finance Club screened two sessions of the “Lessons in Excellence” series for the students. These series was presided over by Prof. Muthu who cleared any doubts the students had and also gave useful examples pertaining to the series from his experiences. The screenings were followed by interactive panel discussions.

Mutual Funds
Date: 2004
Venue: IIPM, Mumbai

The senior students of the FINANCE CLUB conducted a session on Mutual Funds for all the members. The session was a valuable learning experience for all. The students Manveer Chandok and Jeesy Joyce of the batch PGP(03-05)/ SS presented experiences from their summer training days which made the meeting very interesting.

Ratio and Interpretation of Balance sheet
Date: 2004
Venue: IIPM, Mumbai

Analyzing ratios and Interpretation of Balance Sheet by the students of the Finance club by Nidhi Meswani and Mihika brought Prof. LN Chopde on his feet applauding for the two youngsters who presented the subject in a very unique and interesting manner bringing in day to day examples making it simple for non finance students to understand the subject thoroughly.

Rule of three
Date: 2004
Venue: IIPM, Mumbai

The Rule of Three series, was conducted by Dr. Jagdish Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Emory University and Dr. Raj Sisodia, Professor of Marketing at Bentley College. They explained Through the examples of international and Indian companies like RC Cola, Levis, Toyota, Aditya Birla Group, State Bank of India, Bharti, Maruti the unique features of evolving markets and the significance of the number 'Three' in the structuring of such markets.

Wealth Management Module
Date: 6th November/ 13th November 2005
Venue: IIPM, Mumbai

Wealth management modules implemented out here in IIPM Mumbai have been a revolution in terms of intellectual contribution made by the students and proper propagation of knowledge from the speaker’s side. 
The Assistant Vice President HSBC Bank, Mr Rohit Narayanan has spoken about the various responsibilities what an individual needs to handle when he is at the desk of an organization. The individual sitting at the operating desk of a bank is totally responsible for the work done by him, as the Brand is the main wealth of the bank & no bank will ever like that its brand is spoiled by any wrong work done by its employees. Every employee is the representative of the bank & bank will never tolerate that its name is being dragged into any kind of controversy. The individual should make himself well aware as to the person who has come to be bank has got the money from right way & in legal manner. It should not happen that any type of black money or illegal funds are brought into working of the bank, it is always better to have less business rather than harming the name of the bank with bad money. He also spoke about various measures are to be taken while dealing with individuals & corporate. In fact all the aspects of private banking and different facets of investment advisory was the prime focus of his speech.

Dr. Sundrarajan a renowned market analyst and investment advisor, CA by profession, had covered certain basic investment strategies like whether to buy or hold. He dealt with certain investment concepts like Cost Averaging Rupee – Constant proportion, Styles of Investing: Value, Yield, Growth, Momentum & Contrarians, Value Stocks, Yield Stocks, Growth Stocks, Momentum Investing, Investing with Constraints.

He had also given a proper focus on different equity evaluation approaches like Earning Multiplier Approach, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Minor Trend, Intermediate Trend and the Main Trend.

Dr Krishnamurthy an experienced Chartered Accountant had helped students to construct or create a model portfolio and also taught them the different evaluation techniques to evaluate the portfolio keeping the risk and the return matrix in mind.

He had also covered a topic called the economic environment for business, where he covered the different forces of environment which might affect the main business of the bank directly or indirectly. He also talked about primary business opportunity for a bank and the scope of making a proper use of the market available.

He had also emphasized on different business opportunities that the banking sector might get into in the near future. He made our students completely aware of the process of metamorphosis that the Indian banks are going through and thus changing their level of efficiency. He had discussed a number of relevant cases related to the restructuring of the bank and portfolio management.


Workshop on "Capital Market and Derivatives"
Date: 10th & 11th August 2005
Venue: IIPM, Mumbai

The Finex club of IIPM, Mumbai had organized an interactive session on Capital Market and a session on the actual trading on PIB terminal in the stock market. On 10 August 2005 Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Assistant Branch Manager and Mr. Vijay Pillai, Associate Relationship Manager from INDIABULLS conducted a workshop on "Capital Market and Derivatives". Workshop was scheduled for two days.

The first day began with a session on "The Introduction to Capital Market and Derivatives". It was a three hours rigorous interactive session, where the students inquired for their doubts and which was explained in the simplest terms.

Day two was devoted to live on screen manifestation of share trading. The demonstration included - "How the trading is done online also taking into account the cash market transactions along with futures & options market". During this session, purchase & sale of the share was done on an account and a gain of Rs.1.50 occurred, while trading in Futures and Options loss of Rs.0.40 was incurred.

The lecturers were happy and rated that the queries asked by the students were highly intellectual and also guided the students that they should try to track the stock market, as the returns from the stock market are much more than the regular fixed market. The students enjoyed the workshop as it gave them an in-depth knowledge along with the opportunity to trade online within a span of two days.

The session has been truly rewarding in every sense of the word; giving the students an opportunity to understand the finer nuances of how the capital markets work and how trading is carried out online.

The learning that the students carried home with them will enable them to become Smart Speculators (with ref. to Dalal Street) and they themselves will become successful traders in the days to come.