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The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services, 3rd Edition
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The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services, 3rd Edition

by Bharati V. Pathak
September 2010
Beginner
798 pages
41h 9m
English
Pearson India
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17

Investment Banking

Chapter Objectives

This chapter will enable you to develop an understanding of the following:

  1. Investment banks

  2. Functions of investment banks

  3. Types of investment banks

  4. Investment-banking services

  5. Merchant-banking services

INTRODUCTION

Investment banks are financial intermediaries in the business of providing investment and financial advisory services to companies, governments and institutional investors. Investment banks issue securities on behalf of both public as well as private companies, trade securities in the primary and secondary markets on behalf of individual and institutional investors, manage portfolios for high net-worth clients and corporates, and provide financial advisory services to corporates, private ...

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