Francis Bond Head

Financial innovation Another reason attributable to the GFC, which was regarded by David T Llewellyn as the ultimate cause of this catastrophic recession, is the emergence of new financial innovations such as CDOs, CLOs and MBSs. These financial instruments adopted to lower the risk and create a more easily accessible market for borrowers, were of extreme use, hence brought about the inverse effect. Moreover, since these innovations require the separation of different tranches of lending…

posses at least 50% of the company’s share. They can manage and control the company, for example choosing managers and assigning dividends. Vanderbilt tried to gain controlling ownership interest in the Erie Railroad Company. iii) Convertible bonds can be converted into a company’s share, equity or stock in the future. They are more advantageous and beneficial for investors…

Stock and Bond Valuations This report will analyze the differences in how stocks and bonds are valued by investors. Their respective valuation processes will each be displayed separately followed by a condensed summary of their differences. Bond Valuation process Bonds are essentially debt instruments whereby the issuer of the bond is the recipient of a loan and the bondholder is an investor who receives interest payments for the duration of the bond and then…

The stocks chosen by me for this project are: Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) - NSE: BEL - Sector : Electricals State Bank Of India (SBI) - NSE: SBIN - Sector : Banks-Public Sector Trading day 1 - 18 Aug, 2017 Decision - Bought BEL - Rs.182.25, SBI - 278.50 Reasons for buying BEL stocks: 68.19% promoter holding by president of India as reported by the company on 31 march 2017. BEL’s long term debt to equity ratio for the last 5 financial years has been 0 which means the company has been…

FINANCIAL PLAN 1. Assumptions of the Plan a. Market Size For the Sanglé’s worst-case scenario, the penetration rate would be at 1% each year. Sanglé’s total market size for 2015 is 6, 570, 168 and the target market share for that is 27%. For 2016, the market size is 6, 687, 117 and the target market share for that is 26.6%. For 2017, the market size is 6, 846, 107 and the target market share for that is 25.4%. For the Sanglé’s most-likely scenario, the penetration rate would only be at 2.5%…

a) Introduction The CEO of 7-11 Industry have approach our bank to apply for 2 term loan for the purpose of purchase property. To evaluate our customer, our report is using the 5C credit analysis. 5C include character, which is the willingness of customer to repay. Capacity, the ability of customer to repay and capital, how much does the shareholder or directors inject money in their project. Condition is will the economy affect the condition of the company? For collateral is a security to the…

According to Hull, J (Options, Futures and other derivatives: page 7); Options are traded both on exchanges and in the over-the-counter markets. There are two types of option; there is a Call Option and Put Options. The Call Option gives the owner the ability to trade a specified amount of products at a fixed price; and the put option is option which gives the owner the right to sell the underlying asset by a certain date for a certain price. And there are styles of options: American Options and…

Question #1 - What does the term portfolio diversification mean? Explain in details and give specific examples special in finance. The term portfolio diversification is defined as “investing in different asset classes and in securities of many issues in an attempt to reduce overall investment risk and to avoid damaging a portfolio's performance by the poor performance of a single security, industry, (or country).” (Nasdaq n.d.) One describes the theory of portfolio diversification as not putting…

Global Depositary Receipts (GDR) 1. Characteristics Global depository Receipts (GDRs) means a security which accords a right to the registered holder to own a prescribed quantity of securities issued by a listed issuer, and which security is issued outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America. They are instruments that do not listed on US exchange but most commonly exchanges in London or Luxembourg .The characteristics of Global Depositary Receipts (GDR) are it is a secured…

Who are lifestyle managers and why are they needed? Who are lifestyle managers and why are they needed? Many banks have already promised to supplement their service packs private banking (service for VIP clients) with offers that are far from being of a banking nature. It's about the services of concierges and lifestyle managers. Accordingly, the market of these specialists, which in recent years has begun to develop timidly, will grow many times in the coming months. However, this does not mean…