Exchange-traded fund

For instance, par value of convertible bond is $1000 and its conversion price is $50 so the conversion ratio is 20. This stated that bondholder can receive 20 common shares for each bond exchange. If the price of convertible bond is issued at low price but the common stock is at high price so many bondholders will convert their bond into common stock. Thus, this cause the excessive dilution of shareholders’ equity occurred. To prevent too…

with the availability of cheap penny stocks to buy. Global penny stocks are a very good investment for small time investors. Hot penny stock list is that which trades at a relatively low price and market capitalization, outside the major market exchanges. Penny stocks are generally considered to be highly speculative and high risk because of their lack of liquidity, large bid-ask spreads, small capitalization and limited disclosure. They often trade over the counter bulletin board and pink…

been offered on home loans. It is when someone believes that a market is going to go down that that person is bearish. To have an actual market, you need to have someone who is bearish sell so that others can buy including company stocks, currency exchange, bonds, and more. However, this does not happen with loans. However, one person went to the large banks and requested a way to bet against the housing market. Being that Wall Street is based on making money, a deal was made,…

not soon be forgotten. Nate is a huge proponent of active retirement strategies and investing in foreign companies. This is a very difficult and time consuming method of investing, as well as very risky. Dr. Oltmans, on the other hand, prefers index funds, for a hired professional manages them and minimizes the risk of moving investments at the wrong time. I was thrilled to listen to Nate explain investment and retirement strategies and hope I am able to speak with him further about it in the…

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known by his online pseudonym PewDiePie, has always been scrutinized by the media regarding how much money he makes, but this time they have dug up something else to discuss. The media, specifically the Wall Street Journal, recently came out with an article discussing PewDiePie as a Neo-Nazi. Between February 2016 and February 2017 Pewdiepie has uploaded multiple videos with Nazi symbolism. This has caused a massive coverage on the subject throughout the…

Kyle Bass is still desperately clinging to his superstar image. Others are starting to realize that the damaging mistakes did more than tarnish his once shinning star. First, it is important to note that Kyle Bass was the founder of Dallas-based fund, Hayman Capital Management. Here is where the story gets interesting. He predicted the the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. Of course, everyone in the industry imagined that he had some kind of expert insider information or that he just saw the crisis…

James Franey was a businessman with experience as a fixed income trade, who ran his own hedge fund Kenish Town Capital. In November 2008, Franey was considering a unique arbitrage opportunity. The arbitrage consisted of two U.S. Treasury bonds with identical maturities. Each of the bonds paid a semi-annual coupon. The two bonds differed in their coupon rate: one bond had a 4.25% annual coupon rate while the other had an annual coupon rate of 10.625%. What ultimately attracted Franey to these…

those looking to invest. There were no resources for an ordinary person to gain investing information. Mansueto has combined information regarding investing from various sources to comprise a library. This library of information creates the Mutual Fund Sourcebook (Ferrell, Hirt, & Ferrell, 2009). The catalogue of information Mansueto created has been instrumental in the acquisition of stocks and bonds for those that use the…

The monthly cash budget in this report assumes that the only cash inflow that the firm receives is collections from product sales. However, it is possible that Sorenson Stove Company has cash inflows from various other sources. Other possible sources of cash inflows for the company could be interest earned on invested capital; gains on the sale of assets; or capital raised by the issuance of stocks and bonds. The discrepancy between the monthly cash budget and daily cash budget is due to the…

institutions and more to do with new regulatory changes on U.S. money market funds that went into effect in mid-October. The reform requires funds to move from a $1 fixed net asset value (NAV) to a floating NAV along with adopting liquidity fees and redemption gates. These measures have been put in place to safeguard against a repeat of the crisis, which was met with massive outflows and one prominent money market fund “breaking the buck”, dipping below a $1…