Assignment 1 - Personal Wealth Mgmt Flashcards
an arrangement for the devolution of one’s wealth
involves planning during an estate owner’s lifetime, at his/her death, and for the mgmt and devolution of his/her prop. long after the owner’s death
estate plan
**the actions of indiv. and firms in purch. and selling specific prod. and services
**measure of supply and demand for a partic. prod., serv. or industry and the price/cost setting and readjusting in these indiv. mkts.
microeconomics
the translation of personal obj. into specific plans and subsequently into financial arrangements to implement those plans
financial planning process
expenses incurred to maintain person when they are unable to perform at least several of the normal activities of daily living
custodial care expenses
the study of large econ. forces, such as overall prod., economic growth, employment, money supply, gov’t revenues and expenditures, general price levels, etc.
examples - monetary and fiscal policies
macroeconomics
fin instit. that invests other ppl’s money and pays them a rate of return on the money
financial intermediary
Wealth Mgmt Process
- ID facts about your fin. situation
- set goals on where you would like to be in the future
- put plans and fin. mechanisms into place to achieve goals
- monitor and measure progress towards the goals
- realize the risks in order to retain, reduce, insure and avoid.
Professional codes of conduct for financial professionals
- competence
- confidentiality
- compensation
- conflicts of interest
- principles of conduct
- compliance
types of behavioral finance
- anchoring
- loss aversion
- status quo
- regret theory
- type of behavioral finance
- using irrelevant info in making a fin. decision
anchoring
- type of behavioral finance
- tendency to be more disappointed by or fearful of a loss than elated for a gain
loss aversion
- type of behavioral finance
- being happy with - “how things are today”
status quo
- type of behavioral finance
- individuals fear making decision they will regret
regret theory
Competitive Models in Microeconomics
- perfect comp.
- monopoly
- natural monopoly
- oligopoly
- monopolistic comp.
- Competitive Models in Microeconomics
- most efficient mkt structure
- many indiv. buyers and sellers
- no one firm can control the price paid and qty sold as determined by law of supply and demand
- all firms are “price takers” - adjusting to mktplace
Perfect Competition
- Competitive Models in Microeconomics
- single firm supplies the entire mkt and can determine the quantity supplied and influence the price
monopoly
- Competitive Models in Microeconomics
- imperfect competition
- small # of firms act in a mkt
- each highly sensitive to the moves of the other firms
oligopoly
- Competitive Models in Microeconomics
- larger # of firms
- firms’ products are differentiated enough that each firm does not need to be concerned w/ the actions of the others (competition is limited)
Monopolistic Competition
- general increase in price levels in the econ.
- measured by CPI
inflation
- general decrease in price levels
- less common that inflation
- usually associated w/ econ. depressions and banking/credit crises
deflation
the rate in which goods and services increase period-over-period
inflation rate
this results due to the fact that because general prices in the econ. have increased, your purchasing power has decreased
inflation tax
period in which there is both high UnN and high inflation
stagflation