Private equity fund

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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Fund overview Blue Chip Investor Fund ("The Fund") (ticker BCIFX) is an active equity mutual fund in United States "primarily investing in the common stocks of industry-dominant companies whose earnings have demonstrated superior growth" (Eikon). Having been launched since January 1, 2002 with the minimum investment of $5,000 USD, The Fund has its nominated benchmark index is the S&P 500 Total Return Index (Eikon code SPXTR). The Fund was established by Steven Check (past President of the CFA…

Mutual funds collect funds from small investors or unit-holders. The funds so collected are invested in buying shares of companies. Thus, MFs; provide funds to companies for business purposes. (b) They act as indicators between investors and companies. By buying shares in mutual funds, the individual investor becomes part of our institution and so can stand on even terms. (c) Mutual funds are organized, operated and managed by companies that do the practical administrative things that…