Mutual insurance

This semester I had my first work experience related to my field of study. I interned with Morningstar which is an independent provider of investment research, financial information on mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds and multiple saving plans (Morningstar 2016). Morningstar’s mission is to provide software, reliable information on its investing site, online and print-based products for individual investors, professional advisors and institutional clients. It has offices in 27…

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…

Convertible bond is a bond that gives investors an option to convert their bond into a stated number of shares of a firm’s common share in later date. (Madura, 2016) Convertible bond also known as a hybrid security because it has some characteristic of fixes income securities and some features of stock due to the conversion feature. Convertible bond is a regular interest paying bond and some convertible bond are combined with a call option. Calling the bond is usually a method of compel it…

Hot penny stocks list are the ideal investment opportunity 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…

As a part of my term project for Agricultural Financial Management, I chose to attend two classes on retirement and planning. We learned a great deal about the common mistakes and misconceptions about retirement planning and how most of the general public is doing it wrong. The biggest mistake is that people are not setting up retirement plans, but are relying solely on social security benefits, which may not even exist by the time my generation retires. We learned about the different types of…

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…

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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…

existed for 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…

and not related to risk factors of mutual funds. Fama-French model cannot be improved though five-factor model. Compared this three models, Fama-French model has highest adjusted R-square and lowest probability of F-statistic. Therefore, the most suitable model to capture the performance of mutual funds is Fama-French model. However, Fama-French model is not so good. Firstly, the β of ExRm and HML is insignificant, that is to say, the expect return of mutual funds is little related to market…