Brian Lee Video Flashcard Notes

1
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Comparing corporate bond to municipal bond equation

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muni yield / 100% - TB (tax backet)

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2
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Demand Deposit

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Checking account / no interest (income)

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3
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CD

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Bank CD, also doesn’t pay income, paid interest once matured.

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4
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Money market

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Short term, high quality, DEBT
Highly liquid & safe
PAY income
NOT guaranteed
NOT insured

Commercial paper
TBills
Term certificates of deposit (CD’s)
T-bills
repurchase agreements (repos)
Money market mutual funds

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5
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Characteristics of the following:

UIT
Open end management companies
Closed end management companies
ETF
REIT

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Similarity:

UIT & Open end
- Securities act ‘33 reason they have prospectus
- All are ‘pooled’ & clear investment objective
- Find the investment objective in prospectus
- All shares purchased are ‘new shares’
- Value based on all stocks / bonds inside pool
- Closes 4pm ET is when pricing, add up all stocks/bonds/etc - incurred costs = NAV
- NAV calculated ONCE per day end of day
- Sell shares BACK to investment company, not on the market, REDEEMED securities, sold back to them
- Trade ONCE per day, end of day and sold AT NAV (+ sales charge)

Closed End:
- IPO issue shares one time, and shares are traded in the secondary market
- Trade throughout the day, they can trade anywhere in relation to NAV, which means it is traded on secondary
- SUPPLY & DEMAND
- Purchase at market price

ETF: Similar to closed end
- IPO issue shares one time, and shares are traded in the secondary market
- THEY TRACK AN INDEX (think Fidelity FXAIX)
- Low management fees
- Low expenses
- Buy & sell throughout the day
- Passive management

REIT:
- Rental income
- Mortgage income
- Trade in secondary markets
- INCOME investment tool

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6
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NAV

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Total worth - liabilities = NAV

(net worth of a company)

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6
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security act 33 vs 44

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33 - regulates primary / new issue markets
34 - when traded in secondary

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7
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NAV per share calculation

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NAV divided by outstanding shares

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8
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Max sales charge for Open End

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8.5%

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9
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Why limited partnerships (alternative investment), what are the advantages?

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It is a viable business, yes there are tax benefits, but that is a secondary benefit.

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10
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Hedge funds (alternative)

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  • Loosely regulated and unregistered with SEC
  • Options, derivatives, buying on margin - a lot more highly speculative strategies a mutual fund can’t
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Structured investment (alternative investment)

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Equity Linked Note (ELN). It is linked to an equity security, typically an index, regular income from interest, but principal is linked to the return of an underlying equity index

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12
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Fixed annuity vs Variable annuity

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Purely insurance product not security - fixed - and has a guaranteed return. NO investment risk. There is inflationary risk and purchasing power risk due to this.

Variable annuity - no guaranteed return, IS A SECURITY, a VEHICLE TO INVEST FOR RETIREMENT, NOT AT RETIREMENT. The investment vehicle inside the product is registered with SEC, referred to as a SEPERATE ACCOUNT. INVESTMENT GROWS TAX DEFERRED and PENALTY for early withdraw 10% before 59.5

LIFO
TAXED - ordinary income

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13
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Customer has equity based annuity with a 80% participation rate, if market goes up 10% what would the customer return be?

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8%

index goes down, you are guaranteed against loss, so it would remain the sam

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13
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Non qualified variable annuity

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Initial investments are all AFTER tax money, money you’ve already paid taxes on. I.e. 20k will represent cost basis, since you’ve paid taxes, and over the course of life it grows. You will only be taxed on capital gains and earnings.

When you start taking money out. LIFO

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14
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Life insurance needs analysis

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What needs for insurance are, how much death benefit do you need based on your own situation, use a needs analysis to determine what is adequate

15
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Types of life insurance

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Whole life - everything guaranteed, death benefit, cash value too & require fixed premium

Variable life - minimum guaranteed death benefit, but investment return is not & require fixed premium

Variable universal - no guarantees, they only use separate account - flexible premium

16
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Fiscal policy

Monetary policy

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Fiscal - Government spending & Taxes

Monetary - Controlled by FRB - control inflation, as tied to money supply, often they will do is to buy or sell gov’t securities. Buying T BILLS puts more money into banks hands, increases money supply & eases. Selling T BILLS to banks takes money out of banks decreasing supply.

This can increase or decrease interest rates. Make it harder to get money - increase interest rates.

17
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Too much money and.. chasing too few goods

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Inflation

18
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Deflation

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To little money

19
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Inverted yield

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Decreasing interest rates
Going into a recession

20
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Normal yield curve

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Increasing interest rates

21
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Leading
Coincident
lagging indicators

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predict where we are in the business cycle

Leading - where will be 6-9 months
- unemployment rate
- S&P 500
- Orders for durable goods
- Money supply
- Housing permits

Coincident
- GDP
- manufacturing

lagging
- inventory
- duration of unemployment

22
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Balance of payments

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Debit - when we buy foreign automobiles or corp pay dividends to foreign investors - money is going OUT

Credit - Foreign investors

23
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Balance sheet

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A - L = net worth - fine for customers

Corporate balance sheet
Assets = Liabilities + shareholder equity

CA Current asset
- cash & cash equivalent (money market securities)
- account recievable
- inventory

FA
- plant and equiptment

CL curent liabilities
- wages
- accounts payable
- this year interest on outstanding loans

LTL long term liabilities
- interest on outstanding debt

24
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Current ratio

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Current ratio = CA / CL

25
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Quick ratio / acid test

(always think current ration excluding inventory - easier calculation)

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CA (excluding inventory) / CL