Financial markets

made during the reporting process. Particularly, three main choices had a significant impact on the valuation of IOs and will be further detailed: 1. Using a discount rate based on an internal model rather than using a model based public external market data available to discount future free cash flows. 2. Using the current LIBOR rate in order to project future free cash flows rather than the forward LIBOR yield curve. 3. Estimation of prepayments speed, impacting future cash flows and…

Choosing to participate in the market can be daunting on its own. Prior to evaluating your investment options, you should first determine your investment horizon, investable assets, risk tolerance and financial goals. Clearly defining your investment goals will help you determine an investment strategy best suited for you, and sometimes steer you to certain assets. When building your portfolio, you have likely run a cross two popularly referenced labels; growth stocks and dividend stocks. While…

(Crunch Base, 2016). Thrive Global has a big market opportunity when one considers the customers, competition, company and technology. It targets a wide segment market consisting of men, women, from different social economic backgrounds and lifestyle values (Thrive Global, 2016). It also targets companies that experience high levels of burnout by offering training that helps improve wellbeing and high productivity (Thrive Global, 2016). The wide target market means that the company’s prospective…

after a few chapters. Taleb has changed the way I look at business and the world of financial markets. Fooled by Randomness looks at randomness in a wide-ranging setting and it also looks at all the ways in which it twists our thinking. It also emphases more precisely on the markets and trading. It still ranges into other areas of life and overall philosophy, but Taleb delivers more inclusive cases of how the markets read meaning into events that have none fundamentally. Taleb’s Fooled by…

Part B – ACL training policy – Zagga Market 1. Introduction and purpose 1.1 Introduction The NCCP Act (together with the National Consumer Credit Protection Regulations 2010 (Cth)) requires credit licensees to take reasonable steps to ensure that its representatives comply with the NCCP Act (s47(1)(e)), maintain the competence to engage in the credit activities authorised by its licence (s47(1)(f)), and ensure that its representatives are adequately trained and are competent to engage in the…

you should invest your money in the stock market. In this speech, I am going to convince you, first, stock…

as stocks in public and private corporates and equity-return derivative contracts, and fixed-income securities, largely government bonds and debentures, respectively. Inflation not only tended to lead to short-term volatility of returns in equity market, but also…

decades, financial globalization has brought benefits but it has also brought crisis and contagion, thus leaving with amplify views that has allowed the offshore banking to be more freely in investing. Since financial globalization has grown through out decades, it has been more complex to be managed by the government that leaves to the supports and opponents to say that the largely unregulated nature of international banking activity and global securities markers leaves the world financial…

Introduction It was a tremendous shock to most in the financial world when the stock market came crashing down in August of 2008. Apart from the hand full of people who anticipated the disaster, most had lost tremendous amounts of money in the crash and even more in the aftermath. The crash was caused by brokers selling collateralised debt obligations (CDO’s) with high ratings, given to them by the rating agencies (Standard and Poor, Moody’s etc.). But the CDO’s were actually filled with…

What is Market Capitalization Method? Market Capitalization is one of the company valuation methods which is based on market approach and involves company valuation measures using current stock market data (Amadeo, 2016). It focuses on the market value of the company (Amadeo, 2016). It is called Market Cap as well. It is calculated by the price of each share multiplied by the total number of issued shares held by shareholders (Nikolaev, 2016). This method mainly is used for public companies…