A Study of Customer Preference Towards Various Stock Brokerage

RESEARCH PROPOSAL A Study of Customer Preference towards non-homogeneous impart broker historic period Firms in Indore November 20, 2012 Submitted To Submitted By Dr. Yamini Karmarkar Dhwanil Mehta IM 2K9 36 Himanshu Patidar IM 2K9 47 deed of conveyance A Study of Customer Preference towards various Stock Broker come on Firms in Indore. Index S. No. ParticularsPage No. 1INTRODUCTION03 2RESEARCH QUESTION04 3RESEARCH OBJECTIVE04 4RESEARCH METHODOLOGY05 EXPECTED OUTCOMES09 6LIMITATIONS OF RESEARCH09 Introduction This look for is regarding the secondary market trading in India and its main objective is to rede clients alternative towards monetary fund-taking brokerage firms in Indore. In the last decade, Indias GDP has raised from 414 billion dollar in 2001 to 1. 85 nonpareil million million million dollars in 2012. This growth in size of Indian economy has been complimented by 8 fold increase in the market capitalization of the Indian companies. So nation are now investin g more in stock market to increase the value of their money.Capital markets are in earth in India since a long time. on that point are about 11 million DEMAT accounts and 1 million daily active parcel outrs in India. Indian stock market is one of the oldest stock markets in Asia with a glorious past that caters to the huge population of India and gives them investment opportunities. In 1875 Bombay Stock exchange (BSE) was established by 22 brokers. From that time onwards the Indian Stock market has grown in leaps and bounds, and has become a forceful and adapted stock market in the international level.Earlier days a stock was represented by a stock certificate which was a fade of paper that was proof of your ownership. scarce in todays computing machine age, your stock is stored electronically by your broker. This is done to make the shares easier to trade. In the past, when a person wanted to sell his shares that person physically took the certificates down to the broker. But now stocks can be purchased with a click of mouse. Definition of pick out terms 1. Stock Brokerage Firms- A brokerage firm, or exclusively brokerage, is a financial institution that facilitates the demoralizeing and selling of financial securities among a buyer and a seller.Brokerage firms serve a clientele of investors who trade public stocks and other securities, usually through the firms agent stockbrokers. 2. DEMAT Account- The term demat, in India, refers to a dematerialized account for individual Indian citizens to trade in listed stocks or debentures in electronic form rather than paper, as required for investors by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). In a demat account, shares and securities are held electronically quite of the investor taking physical possession of certificates. 3.Trading Account- A trading account kit and caboodle as an intermediary between the savings account and demat account. When you want to buy shares, first the money is trans ferred from your savings account to trading account. 4. Consumer Preference- A consumer gustatory perception explains how a consumer ranks a collection of goods or services or prefers one collection over another. This definition assumes that consumers rank goods or services by the amount of satisfaction, or utility, afforded. Research Question What are the factors that influence the client taste sensation towards choosing a stock brokerage firm?Objectives 1. To study the factors influencing the people at the time of opening a DEMAT and Trading account. 2. To know the individualized views of people regarding choices among various stock brokerage firms in Indore. Research methodology Theoretical Framework Variables Explanatory Variables- 1. Age- This variable is use to get insert of age of clients in years. 2. Income Level- This variable is utilise to get input of yearly income level of the clients in Rupees. 3. Gender- variable is used to get input of grammatical gender of cus tomers. aquiline Variables- . Stock-call precision- Stock-call precision is a qualitative measure of the accuracy of the advice to buy, hold, or sell the securities to gain maximum possible return according to danger beard by customer. 2. Personal assistance 3. Price charged for the services- Prices complicate the account(DEMAT and Trading) opening charges plus brokerage charges per transaction. 4. localisation of offices- Location of offices for the convenience of the customers. 5. put up equity of the firm. Relationship between variables Measurement Design Scales of Measurement 1.Age- separation scale is used with 4 intervals i. e. 18-30, 31-45, 45-60, 60 plus 2. Income Level- Interval scale is used with 5 intervals i. e. 0-3lacks, 3lacks-6lacks, 6lacks-10lacks, 10lacks plus 3. Gender- Nominal scale is used with options Male and Female. 4. Dependent variables Stock-call precision, Personal assistance, Price, Location of offices, and tick off equity are all careful using a 5 point Likert Scale. Least Preferable, Somewhat Preferable, Neutral, Preferable, Most Preferable technique for Data Collection Primary data is needed to be garner for this research.Data go out be collected using questionnaire technique. Questionnaire will be modify by customers through two channels- printed hard copies and online over internet. Researcher will personally take the hard copies of questionnaire to the individual sample. Online questionnaire will be fill using various websites. assay Description Population Population is taken to be the all the investors of Indore trading in securities and having DEMAT and Trading account in any of the stock brokerage firm located in Indore. Sample Size Sample size is taken to be 120.Sampling Technique Non-probability Quota try out method. 20 customers of all(prenominal) of the top 6 brokerage firms of Indore are taken. This makes 6 quotas with 20 customers in each quota. Data Analysis Technique used for data analysis is ANOVA. Hypothesis Age of the Customer as an explanatory variable. 1. trivial Hypothesis, (H0) thither is no kin between age of the customer and preference to the Stock-call precision. assemble Hypothesis,(H1) thither is a kin between age of the customer and preference to the Stock-call precision. 2.Null Hypothesis, (H0) there is no relationship between age of the customer and preference to the Personal assistance. exchange Hypothesis,(H1) at that place is a relationship between age of the customer and preference to the Personal assistance. 3. Null Hypothesis, (H0) There is no relationship between age of the customer and preference to the Price. alter Hypothesis,(H1) There is a relationship between age of the customer and preference to the Price. 4. Null Hypothesis, (H0) There is no relationship between age of the customer and preference to he Location of Offices. Alternate Hypothesis,(H1) There is a relationship between age of the customer and preference to the Location of Offices. 5. Null Hypothesis, (H0) There is no relationship between age of the customer and preference to the Brand Equity. Alternate Hypothesis,(H1) There is a relationship between age of the customer and preference to the Brand Equity. Income of the Customer as an explanatory variable. 6. Null Hypothesis, (H0) There is no relationship between income of the customer and preference to the Stock-call precision.Alternate Hypothesis,(H1) There is a relationship between income of the customer and preference to the Stock-call precision. 7. Null Hypothesis, (H0) There is no relationship between income of the customer and preference to the Personal assistance. Alternate Hypothesis,(H1) There is a relationship between income of the customer and preference to the Personal assistance. 8. Null Hypothesis, (H0) There is no relationship between income of the customer and preference to the Price. Alternate Hypothesis,(H1) There is a relationship between income of the customer and preference to the Price. 9.Null Hypothesis, (H0) There is no relationship between income of the customer and preference to the Location of Offices. Alternate Hypothesis,(H1) There is a relationship between income of the customer and preference to the Location of Offices. 10. Null Hypothesis, (H0) There is no relationship between income of the customer and preference to the Brand Equity. Alternate Hypothesis,(H1) There is a relationship between income of the customer and preference to the Brand Equity. Expected Outcomes Age and income level of the customers welcome world-shattering effect on their choices regarding brokerage firms.Limitations of the study This research might have some minor limitations because of limited sample size and the environment in which data was collected. The data analysis and findings are based on the intimacy and experience of the respondents. It is assumed that at the time of undertaking survey the outperform available respondent group was chosen and the responses given by ea ch one of them was genuine. If the respondents responded to the questionnaire without any interest, attention or adequate knowledge regarding stock market, then the conclusions drawn from this research might not become sensible in real world.