Master of Business Management is one of the most promising job sectors and it has lots of parts, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management is a different sector to work with, Security Analysis is required in each company and the post is known as security adviser.

Importance of the paper:

This paper is a compulsory paper as in every management companies, they require security advisor and portfolio manager and for this reason, the companies always required the professional. Business management is very popular career and it provides lots of job opportunities.

Paper Pattern:

Paper of Security Analysis and Portfolio Management contains 14 questions in it and these questions are kept in 2 sections. Section A is of 7 questions from which 4 are to be solved and each is of short answer type. Section B is of 7 questions and 4 from it are needed to be solved, the questions in this section are divided into sub-questions. Each question of each section is of equal marks.

Frequently asked questions:

Questions asked in the paper are such as Nature and scope of investment, Portfolio revision, investment risk, Efficient set with risk free lending and borrowing, Valuation of Securities, Evaluation of Portfolio performance, Indian Stock Market, Sharpe’s Single index model and other portfolio selection models, management trading system of secondary markets, Return and risk characteristics of individual assets, listing requirements and regulation, SEBI, effect of diversification, Analysis for equity investment,  Portfolio risk and optimum portfolio, Efficient market hypothesis, Capital market theory etc.

Marks and time:

Total marks which can be scored in the paper are 75 and time allotted to the paper is 3 hours only.

Recommended Books:

• Portfolio Analysis & Management - V.K. Bhalla
• Security Analysis & Portfolio Management - V.A. Avadhani