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 these securities on the company's financial statements. Accountants revalue available-for-sale securities each year and have to…
Article Assignment 1 The article “Why Fund Ratings Could Be Misleading” relates mutual fund ratings to the loss aversion experienced by investors. Ratings companies such as Morning Star or Standard and Poor rate mutual funds with a one to five start rating system, with five being the highest. The rating each fund acquires reflects cost and risk adjusted historical performance. The article makes the case that the rating system does not take into account each potential investor’s loss aversion.…
Currently, you are losing your money, if you are just saving your money in your bank account or safe. In this year, you lost 1.6% of your money. It is lower than the United States annual average, 3.22% (S), but it is still 1.6%. The price of goods keeps increasing and we need more money to buy the same goods. However, banks do not pay us enough interest. In fact, inflation rate in this year, 2016 is 1.6% according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (S), while we have 0.01% of interest rate of…
College students have been educated to take various risks in order to achieve the best possible result for any given situation. Some risk comes with numerous consequences, but some come with an abundance of rewards. The best investment you can make in college is an investment in yourself, but sometimes the best investment is in the stock market. The younger you are, the more risk you can take. This saying describes college education, and investing in the stock market very well. When students…
There are many ways to make money in today's ever changing world. People are relying more and more on turning their hobbies into their profession and one such practical and viable hobby is stock photography. Stock photography is the photographs of common places like landmarks, nature, events, people etc. Taken in a professional manner for commercial purposes. Here are the ways by which you can make plenty of money with your stock photography. 1.Having the proper equipment Before starting your…
When you open a Precious Metals IRA with Reagen Gold Group, you will be the glad proprietor of the genuine physical metals you acquired. The majority of your hard resources are safely put away at a best in class, IRS-affirmed, protected private storeroom. When you are age-qualified to take a required dispersion, you can decide to either take physical ownership of your metals or exchange your advantages (in the suitable sum, as dictated by the IRS…
regarding investing that Joe Mansueto founded Morningstar Inc., which helps the average investor when it comes to making important investment decisions. A person wanting to put their funds in a more convenient and less risky investment option should look into investing in a mutual fund (Bihari & Shukla, 2012). A mutual fund possesses a collective of people investing in multiple securities which…
Investment Strategy Diversify two stocks per industry to dampen effects of industry specific crashes, while still maintaining a substantial amount of capital within each market to benefit from industry specific rises. Our investment strategy would focus solely on capital growth, as such, the three industries would be the Financial, Telecom Services, and Utilities sector as they are currently the top performing sectors with around +60% companies up 0% - 2%. TELECOM SERVICES 1. Fusion…
Investment Philosophy My investment philosophy and strategy was not just investing in a single industry. Instead, I wanted to have a variety of stocks in my portfolio, with investing in multiple different companies from different industries. I tended to gear more towards larger companies that are growing relatively fast. These companies were ones that I was personally familiar with and liked as a whole. Amazon, for example, being the largest ecommerce retailer, I believed would be a pretty good…
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…