All the bonds in a particular issue may mature at the same time (term bonds) or in installments over a period of time (serial bonds). Serial bonds are like installment notes payable. Some of Southwest Airlines long-term debts are serial in nature because they are payable in installments. Secured‚ or mortgage‚ bonds give the bondholder the right to take specified assets of the issuer if the company defaults that is‚ fails to pay interest or principal. Unsecured bonds‚ called debentures‚ are backed
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and bonds‚ held as a collective unit by an investor. b. the expected return on a risky asset. c. the expected return on a collection of risky assets. d. the variance of returns for a risky asset. e. the standard deviation of returns for a collection of risky assets. PORTFOLIO WEIGHTS 2. The percentage of a portfolio’s total value invested in a particular asset is called that asset’s: a. portfolio return. b. portfolio weight. c. portfolio risk. d. rate of
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PRICE HIKE To understand this term we divide this term into two parts; Price and Hike and explain both the parts separately. Price is the value paid by the provider or supplier in the form of currency for rendering goods & services. While Hike is an abrupt increase or rise. It means that there is rise in prices of the goods/services required by the people living in the world. These goods/services belong to following sectors; 1. Agriculture 2. Health and Medicine 3. Education 4. Manufacturing/Industries
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Increasing Student Interest in Science‚ Technology‚ Engineering‚ and Math (STEM): Massachusetts STEM Pipeline Fund Programs Using Promising Practices Prepared for the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education March 2011 Acknowledgements Increasing Student Interest in STEM Acknowledgements The concept for this report evolved from valuable conversations with the former Pipeline Director‚ David McCauley and from Program Manger‚ Keith Connors. Information in this report has been compiled
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Exchange Rate December 2014 THE EXCHANGE RATE KEY DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS 1. How is the exchange rate defined? The exchange rate is the price of a unit of foreign currency in terms of the domestic currency. In the Philippines‚ for instance‚ the exchange rate is conventionally expressed as the value of one US dollar in peso equivalent. For example‚ US$1 = P44.00. In every exchange rate quotation‚ therefore‚ there are always two currencies involved. 2. Why is the exchange rate important? The exchange
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rentals were done and eventually became the leader of movie rental industry while Blockbuster and many other companies eventually became bankrupt. Netflix’s story of success is also one of caution as Netflix realizes that they will continue to face many risks throughout their business cycle and if they don’t anticipate and/or respond correctly‚ they too could face the same result as Blockbuster. As of December 31‚ 2009‚ Netflix served approximately 12 million subscribers. Currently‚ Netflix claims on its
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require a risk premium over bond yields to bear the additional risks of equity investments. While models such as the two-parameter capital asset pricing model (CAPM) or arbitrage pricing theory offer explicit methods for varying risk premia across securities‚ the models are invariably linked to some underlying market (or factor-specific) risk premium. Unfortunately‚ the theortical models provide limited practical advice on establishing empirical estimates of such a benchmark market risk premium. As
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Nepal doesn’t seem to be going in right track. The ongoing interest war and expansion of banking network unprecedently has further aggravated the problem. Till the date there are already 31 commercial bank 75 development bank and 84 finance company in the country. further few are in pipeline. alone in Kathmandu there are more than 100 private commercial bank involved in competition. Opening of branches and the installation of ATM machine has led to more idle cash lying around the branches and machine
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Reading Summary of Common risk factors in stock and bond returns Xin Shi (A13119523) The paper introduces the famous Fama–French three-factor model which is a development of the traditional CAPM model and the findings of the 1992 paper. It believes the theory should be able to explain not only stock but also bond returns. Also this paper uses the method of time-series regression‚ which is quite different from the previous paper. After the development
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Name: Trang INTEREST GROUPS ESSAY In the instability of the macro-economic situation today‚ many are closed on the nose sticks "interest groups". Communications networks around the world often tend to "society" and "the poor" should lash their goals to their interest groups that are representative of the rich elite‚ the power is easy to understand story. The European and American society as well. When gasoline prices rise slightly‚ the profits of companies like Exxon‚ Chevron ... is brought
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