Session on Securities Markets; highlight the merits of a career opportunity in Securities Markets

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow organised an extremely informative and interactive session on Careers in securites markets under the mentor ship of Dr.Shubhendra Parihar, themed around ‘Career in Securities Markets‘ on August 26, 2015.

Mr Jitendra Kumar, Faculty Member, School for Regulatory Studies and Supervision, NISM share his experience and knowledge with the students. The session started with Prof. Shubhendra Parihar welcoming the dignitary and providing an overview of the session.

‘Risk is directly proportional to reward’ Mr Jitendra Kumar started by quoting ‘Securities Market is a subset of Financial Market’. Moving on he added that in 1988 SEBI was formed as an administrative body and after the economic reforms of 1991 “Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization”  and Harshad Mehata scam in 1992 there was a need for a regulatory body to protect the interest of investors and so SEBI was transformed into a regulatory body on April 12, 1992.

He Further talked on Why securities market is required, Role of securities market and need for regulator. Interacting immensely with the students he explained ‘Sahara India Pariwar Investor Fraud Case’, Current market scenario, Great depression of 1930 and financial crisis of 2008. He further explained why USA was more affected by it. He also discussed concept of ‘Crowd Funding’ and ‘Free Riders’.

He discussed with the students of the various career opportunities that is present in the securities market and advised them to take certificate courses offered by NISM to improve their knowledge base and career opportunity in securities markets.