Investment Management

Investment Management

Investment Management

David Jaggi

David Jaggi

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Catégorie Finances
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Crée / Actualisé 03.04.2018 / 04.06.2022
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What is a Bond?

A Bond is a long-term asset or long-term debt.

What is a zero coupont Bond?

A zero coupon Bond makes no periodic interest payments.

What are control Bonds?

Bonds that pay a coupont into perpetuity (use perpetuity formula)

What is the YTM?

The YTM is the discounts rate that equates the Price of the bond to ist Present value.

YTM and face value

Bond price = face value (sold at par); bond price < face value (discounte bodn); bond price > face value (premium bond)

What is a common stock?

A Common stock is a security that represents ownership in a corporation, which gives to Shareholders cash flow rights and voting rights.

What are preferred stocks?

Preferred stocks ususally carry no voting rights, but carry a dividend and may have priority over common stocks in the payment of dividends.

Which types of markets are there?

Primary markets: Firms sell new shares; Secondary market: Second hand shares from each other (Exchange); OTC: By a network of dealers

What states the plowback ratio?

Ratio of the earnings of the company which are re-invested.

What is the Liquidation Value Per Share?

The minimum value for the stock price under which the marekt price can never fall.

What happens under the LPS?

Under the LPS, the stock becomes attractive as a takeover target.

What measures the ROA?

Income earned per dolar deployed in the firm

What measures the ROC?

Income earned per dollar of long-term capital invested in the firm

What measures the ROE?

Net income realized by shareholders per dollar invested in the firm. Key determinant of earnings growth and profitability.

What is the interest coverage?

Measures the likelihood of bankruptcy.

What measures the current ratio?

Ability of the firm to pay off current liabilities by liquidating ist current assets (and avoid insolvency in the sjort run)

What measures the quick ratio?

Better than current ratios as it has not inventories which is nor readiy convertible into cash.

What is cash ratio?

Is better than quick ratio as receivables are less liquid than cash.

Describe the opportunity cost of capital?

The opportunit cost of capital is the rate of return on investments in the same class of risk.

What is the Expected return?

Sum of the returns in each state multiplied by the proibability of the state occuring.

What measures the variance?

Measures exactly how much the possible outcomes vary from the expected value.

What means risk aversion?

They dislike risk,so between investments giving the same expected return they prefer the one with the lower standard deviation.

What is the risk premium?

Return above the risk free rate.

Describe skewness

Symmetry of the distribution. Positively skewed: sd overestimates risk.

Describe kurtosis

Degree of fat tails. Greater than 3 then the probability mass in the tails of the distribution is higher than predicted by the normal distribution.

Describe Value at Risk

is the loss corresponding to the lowest 5% of the entire return distribution.

Describe expected shortfall

also called conditional tail expectation (CTE) because it is conditioned on being the left tail of the distribution.

Describe lower partial standard deviation

Similar to usual standard deviation, but uses only negative devidations from the risk free return, thus, addressing the asymmetry on returns issue.

Describe sortino ratio

The ratio of average excess returns to LPSD.

What is unique risk?

Deiversifiable risk or non-systematic risk. Unique to erach company.

What is maket risk?

Non-diversifiable risk or systematic risk. Cannot be eliminated regardless of how much we diversify.

How is the market risk measured?

It is measured by the beta. The beta of the portfolio is the weigthed average of the betas of the stock included in it.

How is the total risk set up?

The total risk is set up by diversifiable risk and marekt risk.

How is the utility curve of risk averse investors shaped?

Risk averse investors have a concave utility function.

What is the untility value of a risk free portfolio?

It is equal to the expected return.

How is aversion set up?

A > 0: Investor is risk averse; A = 0: Investor is risk neutral; A < 0: Investor is a risk lover.

Which portfolio will the investor choose?

He will choose the optimal portfolio on the CAL taht maximizes his Utility.

When do we call the CAL a CML?

If the risky asset is an index.

How do I get from the optimal risky protfolio to the optimal complete portfilio?

We choose the Optimal complete portfilio by mixing the optimal risky portfolio with the risk free rate.

How are the portfolios on the efficient frontier called?

They are called afficient portfolios.