SWOT ANALYSIS During this training at Religare Securities Limited, we had come to know the Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats for the company and it is very useful for a company to analyze them. Therefore, the SWOT analysis is presented here and the suggestions for maintaining strengths and removing weaknesses are explained. Strengths: Well-maintained infrastructure. Dedicated, Intelligent and Loyal staff. On-line trading products. Lowest brokerage and No hidden charge. Wide product range to enable the clients to choose the best alternative. A positive image in the existing clients. Weaknesses: Time consuming process for account opening, resolving the problems of the customers, etc. Service quality is not maintained accordingly how they are promoted. Opportunities: Slope of stock market towards delivery based transactions. Large potential market for delivery and intra-day transactions. Open interest of the people to enter in stock market for investing. Attract the customers who are dissatisfied with other brokers. An indirect opportunity generated by the market from its bullishness. Threats: Decreasing rates of brokerage in the market. Increasing competition against other brokers.
A threat of losing clients for any kind of weakness of the company. Indirect threat from instable stock market, i.e., low/no profit of Religare s clients would lead them to go for other broker. 1.5 PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OF RELIGARE SECURITIES LIMITED. 1.5.1. PRODUCTS OF RELIGARE SECURITIES LIMITED. 1. PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM With the Religare Team Managing Your Portfolio, you can be assured that your investments are in safe hands! We follow a multi-disciplined approach incorporating quantitative analysis, fundamental analysis and technical analysis. This multi-pronged approach enables us to provide risk-controlled returns for you. Right from choosing the combination of stocks most suitable for you based on your risk appetite to monitoring their movements and discussing them with you at special events. 3. MUTUAL FUND A mutual fund is a pool of money that is invested according to a common investment objective by an Asset Management Company (AMC). The AMC offers to invest the money of hundreds of investors according to a certain objective - to keep money liquid or give a regular income or grow the money long term. Investors buy a scheme if it fits in with their investment goals, like getting a regular income now or letting the money accumulate over the long term. Investors pay a small fraction of their total funds to the AMC each year as investment management fees. 4. DEPOSITARY SERVICE Dematerialization and trading in the Demat mode is the safer and faster alternative to the physical existence of securities. Demat as a parallel solution offers freedom from delays, thefts, forgeries, settlement risks and paper work. This system works through depository participants (DPs) who offer Demat services and hold the securities in the electronic form for the investor Religare Depository services offers Dematerialization services to individual and corporate investors. We have a team of professionals and the latest technological expertise dedicated
exclusively to our Demat department, apart from a national network of franchisee, making our services quick, convenient and efficient. At Religare, our commitment is to provide a complete Demat solution which is simple, safe and secure. 5. ONLINE IPO Online IPO (Initial Public Offering)is a new service started by Religare for providing the application form of any company s issues of shares just like the UFO issue can be subscribed by filling an online form to reduce the paper work and the fund transfer facility is also provided to the clients for transferring the funds online. It is given on its web-site for helping the clients who are not able to collect the forms manually and the speed of filling and reducing the risk of misplacing of forms, not reaching in time, etc. 6. COMMODITY TRADING Most of the existing Indian commodity exchanges are single commodity platforms; are regional in nature, run mainly by entities which trade on them resulting in substantial conflict of interests, opaque in their functioning and have not used technology to scale up their operations and reach to bring down their costs. But with the strong emergence of: National Multi-commodity Exchange Ltd., Ahmadabad (NMCE), Multi Commodity Exchange Ltd., Mumbai (MCX), National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange, Mumbai (NCDEX), and National Board of Trade, Indore (NBOT), all these shortcomings will be addressed rapidly. These exchanges are expected to be role model to other exchanges and are likely to compete for trade not only among themselves but also with the existing exchanges. 7. DERIVATIVE TRADING The emergence of the market for derivative products, most notably forwards, futures and options, can be traced back to the willingness of risk-averse economic agents to guard themselves against uncertainties arising out of fluctuations in asset prices. By their very nature, the financial markets are marked by a very high degree of volatility. Through the use of derivative products, it is possible to partially or fully transfer price risks by locking-in asset prices. As instruments of risk management, these generally do not influence the fluctuations in the underlying asset prices. However, by locking-in asset prices, derivative products minimize the impact of fluctuations in asset prices on the profitability and cash flow situation of risk-averse investors.
8. ONLINE BSE AND NSE TRADING Religare is a registered Stock Broker with the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange to trade on behalf of clients. The screen-based trading is done on religareonline.com There are two types of transactions executed on these terminals viz. Intra-day and delivery based transactions. Intraday transactions are those, in which the squaring up of deal is done on the same day, while in delivery based transaction the squaring up is not done on the same day, but the stock is to be traded on the basis of rolling settlement i.e. T+2. The Brokerage of Intraday transaction is 2 paisa single side, while brokerage on delivery based transactions is 20 paisa on both side, i.e. while purchasing as well as selling. 9. FREE ACCESS TO INVESTMENT ADVICE THROUGH R&D The Research and Development at Religare is done at its Head office Delhi. From there it forwards the relevant data and tips on particular shares and scripts at the relevant time. The R&D department Head forwards all the details regarding all stocks and scripts to all the branches through Internet. At the end of each trading day there is a Teleconference, through which the R&D department Head talks with each Branch heads and discusses about each day's closing position and shows their predictions about next day's opening position. The quarries regarding stock positions and other relevant matter of the branch heads of each branch is being solved through teleconference. SERVICES OF RELIGARE SECURITIES LIMITED. Religare's services are basically divided into online and offline. 1. ONLINE The various benefits the client gets from the online trading are: Freedom from Paperwork: Integrated trading, bank and Demat account (auto pay-in and pay-out of securities) with digital contracts removes all paperwork. Instant Credit and Transfer: Instant transfer of funds from bank accounts of client's choice to his/her Religare trading account. Trade Anywhere: Enjoy the ease of trading from any part of the world in a completely secure environment.
Dial n Trade: Call Religare on a toll free number to place orders through Religare s telebrokers. Timely Advice: Make informed decisions with expert advice, investment call and live market commentary. Real-Time Portfolio Tracking: Benefit from real-time information of your investment and current portfolio value. After-Hour Orders: The Client can place orders after the market hours, which get executed as soon as markets open. 2. OFFLINE Offline A/c is the A/c for the investors who are not familiar with the use of computer. The A/C opening charges Rs.500(One time) For 1 st Year Demat A/C is Free, On 2 nd Year AMC charge is applicable. CLASSSIC ACCOUNT A/C Opening Charges Rs.500 (onetime Charge). For 1 st Year Demat A/C is Free, On 2 nd Year AMC charge is applicable. Type with 4 Banks through which one can transfer or withdraw his fund online. Which are as follows Bank of Maharashtra Corporation Bank Karur Vesya Bank South India Bank