VOLATILITY AND RISK RETURN IMPLICATION OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL MELTDOWN FOR THE NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE. By Ifeanyi O. Nwanna Reg. No:2006417001P Being a Seminar Paper Presented to the Department of Banking And Finance‚ Faculty Of Management Sciences‚ Nnamdi Azikiwe University‚ Awka in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D) in Banking and Finance Course Code: Fin 703- Theory and Practice of Money
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borrowing money by issuing bonds is that interest payments‚ unlike dividends‚ are tax-deductible. But interest has to be paid even in a year in which a company makes no profit‚ so it is safer to have equity capital as well‚ on which no dividends need be paid if there are no profits. 4/29/2014 3 4 • What are differences between bonds and shares? Stocks and Bonds Which security is better? 4/29/2014 4/29/2014 5 1 4/29/2014 STRUCTURE BONDS - a form of debt with
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reversals in the short-term period. While those studies focus on the world’s largest markets i.e. U.S. and Japan‚ other emerging and developing markets are largely unexplored. This motivates us to further investigate the issue in Vietnamese stock market. Applying Generalized Method of Moments approach on a sample size of 33 firms listed on the Ho Chi Minh City Securities Trading Center over the five-year period from 2001 to 2005‚ this study finds that Vietnamese stock market appears to have
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of Bonds Fixed rate bonds have a coupon that remains constant throughout the life of the bond. A variation are stepped-coupon bonds‚ whose coupon increases during the life of the bond. Zero-coupon bonds (zeros) pay no regular interest. They are issued at a substantial discount to par value‚ so that the interest is effectively rolled up to maturity (and usually taxed as such). The bondholder receives the full principal amount on the redemption date. High-yield bonds (junk bonds) are bonds that
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The Stock Market Do you think if your personal finance are affected and thousands of company’s shares traded because of the New York Stock Exchange? The biggest stock market in the world Billions of dollars pass from hand to hand every single day in this establishment. Two hundred years ago in front of Trinity Church in East Manhattan‚ the foundation of the New York Stock Exchange has started out. Recurrently owning shares in cargo was coming in on ships everyday for silver traders after the
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Introduction: Stock index is very much important leading indicator which can be used for several purposes. It can be used as a benchmark to judge the performance of professional money managers. It can be used to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of several types of index fund and exchange traded fund (ETF). Securities analysts‚ portfolio managers‚ and academicians doing research use stock market indexes to examine the factors that influence aggregate security price movements and to
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Alex Sharpe’s Portfolio Student Assignment 1. Returns and Risk Estimate and compare the returns and variability (i.e. annual standard deviation over the past five years) of Reynolds and Hasbro with that of the S&P 500 Index. Which stock appears to be riskiest? Reynolds appears to be the riskiest stock based on the returns and variability alone currently holding the highest average return out of two at 1.87%. With their higher return rate over the three they also hold the highest standard
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EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS Investment companies‚ manage the funds of individuals‚ businesses‚ and state and local governments‚ and are compensated for this service by fees that they charge. The fee is tied to the amount that is managed for the client and‚ in some cases‚ to the performance of the assets managed. Some asset management companies are subsidiaries of commercial banks‚ insurance companies‚ and investment banking companies. As an investment vehicle‚ open-end funds (i.e.‚ mutual funds) are often
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NIGERIA MARCH 4-14 2008 THE BOND MARKET IN GHANA-CHALLENGES FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT A. Introduction A bond has been defined as a debt (loan) instrument which requires the issuer to repay the investor the amount borrowed with interest over a predetermined period of time. Bonds can be callable‚ redeemable‚ convertible‚ extendable or retractable. They may have warrants attached to them as a sweetner. They may also be income generating or have zero coupons. Bond investors are exposed to some
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Risk and Return: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models Portfolio Theory Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Efficient frontier Capital Market Line (CML) Security Market Line (SML) Beta calculation Arbitrage pricing theory Fama-French 3-factor model Portfolio Theory • Suppose Asset A has an expected return of 10 percent and a standard deviation of 20 percent. Asset B has an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 40 percent. If the correlation between A and B is 0.6
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