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प्रश्न
Answer the following question.
What is meant by the 'Allocative Function' of Financial Markets?
उत्तर
An important function of the financial market is known as the ‘allocative function’. A financial market acts as a link between the savers and the investors. It provides a platform for the mobilisation of savings from the households to the investors. Thus, it allocates funds from households to investors.
संबंधित प्रश्न
The market where existing securities are resold or traded is called __________ market.
(a) commodity
(b) secondary
(c) primary
State the functions performed by financial market.
Today, the development of a country is also judged by its system of transferring finance from the sector where it is in surplus to the sector where it is needed the most. To give strength to the economy SEBI is undertaking measures to develop the capital market. In addition to this, there is another market in which unsecured and short-term debt instruments are actively traded every day. These markets together help the savers and investors in allocating the available funds into their most productive investment opportunity.
1)Name the function being performed by the market in the above case.
2) Also, explain three other functions performed by this market.
Helpequip Ltd. is a company dealing in distribution of medical equipments. The company recently imported 500 units of a diabetes monitoring machine which tests the sugar levels without taking blood samples. For deciding the marketing strategy, the Chief Executive Officer of the company called a meeting of the marketing heads of different zones. In the meeting, Sanjeev, the North Zone marketing head suggested that they need to visit hospitals to explain personally to the hospital staff who would be using the machine since the machine is sophisticated. He also suggested that additional staff may also be recruited for the same.
Rishu, another zonal head, was of this opinion that since a large amount of money had been spent on the purchase of the machines, additional funds were not available for recruiting the personnel as suggested by Sanjeev.
Ankur, a newly appointed zonal head of South Zone, suggested that since the size of the
order was not large, a detailed study of the factors determining the choice of channels of distribution was required before making the right choice.
1) Identify the factors influencing the choice of channels of distribution which were discussed in the meeting.
2) Also, explain the other considerations to be taken care of in each factor identified in part (a).
The financial market plays an important role in the allocation of scarce resources in an economy by performing many important functions.’ Explain any three such functions
Distinguish between the following.
Money market and Capital market.
What are the functions of Financial Market?
Match the pairs :
| Group "A" | Group "B" | ||
| 1. | Private placement | a. | Recurring Deposit |
| 2. | N.S.D.L | b. | Dividend |
| 3. | Overdraft facility | c. | Evidence of deposit |
| 4. | Deposit receipt | d. | Interest |
| 5. | Returns on share | e. | Depository out of India |
| f. | A public company collecting capital privately |
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| g. | Depository in India | ||
| h. | Evidence of ownership | ||
| i. | A private company collecting capital privately |
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| j. | Current account |
Money market is a market for lending and borrowing of funds for _________ term.
Find the odd one.
Answer in one sentence.
What is financial market
Answer in brief.
State any four functions of the financial market.
______ is short-term finance repayable on demand, with a maturity period of one day to fifteen days.
Tractors Pvt. Ltd. producing 2,00,000 trucks and generating revenue of Rs. 2,000 crores annually, has recently acquired the world's second largest truck manufacturing company. After this acquisition, Tractors Pvt. Ltd. will become the world's largest truck manufacturer. For financing the acquisition, the company had to arrange about Rs. 1,00,000 crores through debt and equity. ______ function is being performed by the company for arranging the funds through debt and equity.
Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding Financial Markets?
What is meant by the financial market?
______ market where the company trades shares for the first time.
Distinguish between:
Primary Market and Secondary Market
The allocative function of Financial market helps in ______.
