Investment in Securities Market

In the previous section, we have learned about inflation and investments. Investing is essential to grow your savings so that you can achieve your financial goals.

In this section, we will learn about how to start your journey of investment in securities market. Briefly, securities market or stock market is a financial market place where buyers and sellers come together to trade shares and other securities.

Segments:

Securities Market has two segments:

• Primary Market, and
• Secondary Market

• The Primary Market is a place where new issues of shares or other securities are offered to investors. Examples are initial public offers (IPOs) for shares, corporate bonds, and government bonds.
• The Secondary Market is a place where an investor can buy/sell shares or securities from another investor rather than the issuer. The Bombay Stock Exchange National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) and Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India Limited (MSE) are example of such a stock market, or stock exchange.

To know more on securities market, please read PPT at below link:

https://investor.sebi.gov.in/iematerial.html

• PPT on Introduction to Securities Markets