Mutual fund

Quick Ratio measures the ability of a company to fulfill its current liabilities with its most liquid assets. Overall, a rising quick ratio indicates that the company has enough cash to pay back its current liabilities. From the calculation, a decrease of Sleep Country’s quick ratios is prevalent between the 2014 to 2015 fiscal years. In 2014, the ratio reveals that Sleep Country had approximately $1.06 in quick assets for every $1 in current liabilities. However, in 2015 the quick ratio…

Current Fund Observations: We have looked over your current portfolio. We believe you have done a great job monitoring your investments. You have several different retirement accounts and you were proactive in getting these accounts invested early. You also have a variety of funds in each account. We would like to make a few recommendations to reflect your risk tolerance, risk capacity and risk need. Portfolio Analysis: We have observed some areas of improvements we would like to…

we expected volatility in the energy market and a U.S. dollar bull market to be positive for low volatility funds in the United States. The iShares USA Minimum Volatility (USMV) was the top pick for best ETF to buy before 2015, and the fund performed admirably. The fund finished with a gain of 5.45 percent in 2015, which outperformed the 1.25 percent return of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY). The fund achieved the return with less volatility and a trading range of 10 percent from high to low. For SPY,…

Consider a person betting on coin tosses, and the previous five outcomes were all Heads. Under the gambler’s fallacy, the person would think that the next outcome is most likely to be Tails and would then bet for Tails. The gambler’s fallacy is the false belief in “negative autocorrelation of a non-autocorrelated random sequence of outcomes” (Sundali & Croson, 2006). In simpler words, it is the tendency to perceive an outcome as less likely to occur if it occurred more frequently than normal…

Samsung is a company that is traded on the Korean Market; therefore, the analysis used the ADR as a substitute because an American investor would only be able to purchase the stock in the form of an ADR, mutual fund, or ETF. Samsung is a company that produces a large array of products including TV’s, Laptops, Phones, and other electronics. Currently, they are experiencing some scrutiny for their latest phone, it had an event where one of their phones actually…

investments of idle funds, which are cash equivalents that earns interest during a short period of time. Marketable securities are an example of short term investments, because they are easily converted to cash and can be bought or sold with little effect on the price of the securities. Furthermore, short term investments usually provide a firm with an increase in return on investments (ROI). Additionally, some short term securities include treasury bonds, stocks, mutual funds, money market…

Learning Team A Global Business Financial Environment ACC/300 Brandy Havens Alesia Batiste GM Motors uses SEC filings (US Securities and Exchange Commissions). Available-for-sale securities are one type of investment a company can make. Available-for-sale securities are any security not classified as a trading security or held to maturity security. These can either be debt or equity securities, however, the accounting is the same for each. An accountant must properly account and report…

The Automatic Millionaire teaches many important concepts and leads its readers on the path towards becoming future millionaires. The Automatic Millionaire shows how you can be a millionaire over time without self-discipline or budgeting. The three main concepts that I thought were the most important were the Latte Factor, and how it impacts our lives. The next is the “Automate for a Rainy Day” concept, and how you should always plan for a “Rainy Day”. Lastly, I’ll go into what tithing is and…

bondholders. 2. What is asset allocation? Why is this used? This is a technique used to spread your investment dollars across several asset categories. The investment categories may include cash and cash alternatives, bonds, stocks, real estate, mutual funds, imaginable. The goal is to maximize your return. 3. What are common stocks? What are the advantages and disadvantages of…

Investment is risk. There is no investment that is completely secure and completely safe. Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Real Estate, every investment option holds the risk of losing money. The objective of investing one’s wealth is to generate income for the future. People fear that investing their wealth is putting their future at risk, a fear is holding down the success of that wealth. Wayne Gretzky, the greatest hockey player of all time, famously said, “ You miss one hundred percent of…