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Showing posts with label derivatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label derivatives. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 September 2018

Investments and Risk Reward Ratio

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It is always interesting that there are so many different types of investments around us, ranging from  regulated  investments such as bon...
Friday, 10 February 2012

Lessons from the junk bonds debacles of the 1980s and their collapse in 1990

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Contrary to the promises of underwriters, junk bonds were a poor investment. They offered too little return for their substantial risk. T...

Collateralized Bond Obligations - a pile of junk is still junk no matter how you stack it.

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Collateralized Junk-Bond Obligations One of the last junk-bond-market innovations was the collateralized bond obligation (CBO). CBOs are d...
Thursday, 24 November 2011

Investments and Risk Reward Ratio

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It is always interesting that there are so many different types of investments around us, ranging from regulated investments such as bond...
Saturday, 22 May 2010

Bill Passed in Senate Broadly Expands Oversight of Wall St.

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May 20, 2010 Bill Passed in Senate Broadly Expands Oversight of Wall St. By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday ap...
Saturday, 1 May 2010

Buffett (2000): Derivatives - Weapons of Mass Destruction

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Buffett's letter for the year 2000 discussed his views on tendencies of certain CEOs to make lofty projections of their companies' ...
Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Buffet's view on Derivative contracts

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Derivative contracts Finally, you should expect large swings in the carrying value of these contracts, items that can affect our reported...
Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Derivatives - options and futures

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Stocks and bonds are financial assets. A derivative is also a financial asset but it differs from stocks in one fundamental way: the value o...