MBA
SPECIALIZATION - FINANCE
(CAPITAL MARKET)
In an increasingly dynamic and complex financial landscape, capital markets playing a critical role in the allocation of resources, economic growth, and financial stability. To address the need for value added education, research and policy development in this area, we at School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar have initiated a specialization area within finance as ‘Capital Market’. The specialization area will serve as a hub for professional development and focus on the intricacies of capital markets.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of the program is to offer specialized academic programs, professional certifications, and workshops that equip students with the knowledge and skills required in capital markets. The program includes the following key courses covering several areas of capital market.
1. Asset Allocation and Portfolio Management
The course covers the strategies of distributing investments across different asset classes including; stocks, bonds, real-estate, bullions and cash. The portfolio management encompasses the overall process of building, managing, and optimizing an investment portfolio to meet specific goals of minimizing risk and earning a comfortable return.
2. Quantitative Finance and Market Microstructure
This course introduces students to foundational and applied concepts in quantitative finance and market microstructure. It equips students with analytical tools to understand how financial markets operate, how securities are priced, and how quantitative models are used in trading and risk management.
3. Economic Environment for Financial Markets
This course explores how macroeconomic and policy environments influence the structure and behavior of financial markets. It examines the interplay between monetary and fiscal policy, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, and capital flows—and their collective impact on investment decisions, asset prices, and financial stability.
4. Equity Research and Fundamental Analysis
The course comprises the approaches to fundamental analysis. The fundamental analysis is the core skill that an investor should develop to evaluate a company on the basis of its track record: sales, earnings, dividends, products, management, etc., as well as the economic and industry outlook. Legendary contemporary investors like Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch used this approach to amass fortunes in the stock market.
5. Business Analysis and Valuation
Arriving at the value of a business or a group of business assets requires an analysis and weighing the value drivers. Under this context, the structure of this course comprises the necessary steps followed for business and equity valuation process
6. Corporate Finance-II
The course covers the approaches of effective and efficient management of financial functions of firms. In order to achieve the business goal of maximizing the value of the firm, the manager should have the ability to analyse and respond to the business environment relating to different finance functions.
7. Fixed Income Securities
The course is designed to provide knowledge on fixed income products and their valuation with trading strategy. These instruments appeal to investors looking for steady returns and capital preservation since they are often less risky than stocks. Municipal bonds, business bonds, and government bonds are a few examples. Through this course, students can acquire knowledge in this emerging area to work effectively in the financial market.
8. Derivatives & Risk Management
The course covers different types of derivative products those are being used by stock traders, banks and insurance companies and corporates to minimize risk exposure. Through this course the students can able to understand the motives and type of risk to be hedged with hedging strategies.
