Investments Flashcards

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1
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Initial margin

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Amount of equity an investor must contribute to enter margin transaction

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2
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Maintenance margin

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Min amount of equity required before margin call

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3
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Margin call formula

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Loan / (1- maintenance margin)

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4
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Margin position formulas

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Equity: stock price per share - loan per share
Margin: equity per share / FMV

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5
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Required Equity (margin formula)

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Stock price x maintenance Margin

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6
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Actual equity (margin)

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Investor must contribute difference between required equity and actual equity
Stock price - debt

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7
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Standard deviation

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Total risk of undiversified portfolio
Bigger SD, the riskier

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8
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Standard deviation %

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1 standard deviation : 68%
2: 95%
3: 99%

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9
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Covariance of Variation

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= standard deviation / average return
Higher , more risky
Useful for comparing 2 assets with different avg returns

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10
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Correlation coefficient

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Measure movement of security relative to another
+1 is perfectly correlated
= stand Dev1 x stand Dev2 x correlation

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11
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Beta

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Measures Systematic risk
Beta of market is 1

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12
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Coefficient of determination (r squared)

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Correlation coefficient squared
Tells investors if beta is appropriate measure of risk
If rsquarwr over 70% use beta

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13
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Holding period return

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(Selling price - purchase price +/- cash flows) / purchase price

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14
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Treynor index

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Uses beta to measure reward achieved relative to risk
Needs to be compared to another Treynor index

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Sharpe ratio

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Provides measure of portfolio performance to risk
Uses standard deviation

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16
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Jensens alpha

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Uses beta
Higher the alpha, better the performance
Negative alpha is underperformance

17
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Dollar weighted return

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Cash flows of investor, not stock

18
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Time weighted return

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Cash flows of the investment
Ex mutual fund

19
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Price to earnings ratio (PE ratio)

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Amount an investor is willing to pay
= price / earnings per share

20
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Dividend payout ratio

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% of firms earnings being paid as dividend
= common stock div / earnings per share

21
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Return on Equity

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Overall profitability of company
= earnings per share / stockholders equity per share

22
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Dividend yield

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Annual dividend as a % of stock price
= div per share / stock price

23
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Efficient market hypothesis

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If market was perfectly efficient, price would be reflective of all info

24
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Weak form of efficient market hypothesis

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Stock prices can be beaten by inside information
Rejects technical analysis

25
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Semi strong efficient market hypothesis

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All public info reflected in price
Rejects technical and fundamental analysis

26
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Strong form efficient market hypothesis

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Assumes inside info is already reflected in stock price
Cannot beat market
Rejects fundamental, technical analysis and inside info

27
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Duration of zero coupon bonds

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Zero coupons always have duration = to maturity
Coupon bonds have duration less than maturity

28
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Call options
When to buy and sell

A

Buy: believe price will rise
Sell: believe price will fall or stay same

29
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Put options
When to buy or sell

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Buy: believe prices will fall
Sell: believe prices will rise or stay the same

30
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Selling options

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Produces income

31
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Purchasing options

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Protect portfolio from downturn in market

32
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Intrinsic value

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Call: stock price - strike price
Put: strike price - stock price
Cannot be less than 0

33
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Yields at discount
Highest to lowest

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Call Moms Cell Now when discount
YTC, YTM, CY, NY

34
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Real Return Formula

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[(1 + investment return) / (1 + inflation)] - 1 x 100

35
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conversion value of bond formula

A

(Par Value / Conversion Price) x Stock Price

36
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Tax Exempt Yield Formula

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corporate rate x (1 - marginal tax rate)

37
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Preemptive Rights

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right of existing shareholders to purchase newly issued stock before offered to public
-able to keep same % of ownership

38
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When to use Treynor VS Sharpe Ratio

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Treynor: uses Beta - use for Diversified Portfolio
Sharpe: uses Stan Dev - use for Undiversified Portfolio