The following points highlight the four main types of shares offered by a company. The types are: 1. Equity Shares 2. Preference Shares 3. Non-Voting Shares (NVS) 4. Other Forms of Shares. Type # 1. Equity Shares: An equity interest in a company may be said to represent a share of the company's assets and a share of any profits [...]
Municipal bonds are bonds raised by municipal bodies or local governments for financing core urban infrastructure facilities like drinking water, sanitary systems, solid waste disposal systems, road, hospitals etc. Generally municipal bonds are broadly of two types. Municipal bonds are the ideal instruments for raising resources, channelling funds from capital market into infrastructure development. They are long-term in nature, unlike [...]
In the fast changing financial scenario, it has become imperative for the corporate sector to devise hybrid debt instruments for raising funds from the market. A brief discussion is made here about the hybrid debt instruments of finance. Hybrid Debt Instrument # 1. Zero Coupon Bond (ZCB): ZCBs do not pay out any interest prior to maturity. These bonds are [...]