In today's investment environment I think we need to change the way we look at bonds and simultaneously change the way
we look at equities.
I believe a critical part of changing the way
we look at equities is by the recognition that there are wide differences in the safety profile of various equity classes.
But perhaps we should change the way
we look at equities more permanently.
Since an average salaried investor already has some money lying in bank savings, bank fixed deposits and EPFO / NPS and these are all fixed income investments, while investing they should include these in their overall allocation and then determine whether do they require any more of fixed income return streams or do they need to
look at Equities for their allocations.
«I think people
look at equities wrong.
What interested us about Lendio is that they didn't
look at equity; they looked at the cash flow.
This track also includes sessions on executive compensation, and
looks at equity compensation in non-ESOP companies as well as ESOP companies who have international divisions.
We look at equity returns from several perspectives: Nominal, Real, Price only, and Price plus dividends.
Their cost of capital is a function partly of low interest rates and part of the implicit share price is a function of the fact that investors have
looked at equities for dividends rather than bonds for yield because the bond market is so expensive.
Taking
a look at equity as it relates to home ownership, it's the value an individual has invested in his or her home.
And when you're
looking at equities or bonds, these obviously make up for most people the vast majority of their investment portfolio or at least the core of the investment portfolio.
We recommend a close
look at the equity risk premium.
«Transparency and tax are important but a High Pay Commission
looking at both equity and economic aspects is a welcome suggestion too.»
This episode of Walking the Talk takes an honest
look at equity work — at the difficulties and the possibilities of creating systems that uplift the most vulnerable
Prioritized an audit of school fees among district and charter schools to
look at equity and access issues for students.
Rather than using data to create a laundry list of «what's going wrong with our schools» or to assign blame to a group or individual, it is more effective to
look at equity - related data with the goal of building capacity for improvement.
We want to present a Black - centered response to the many questions that result from
looking at equity in our current education system.
You also only need to
look at the equity of your property.
When
looking at equity private lenders will calculate a metric called Loan to Value Ratio (LTV).
All companies have a book value, so you take
a look at your equity, your assets, your liabilities, and everything else and then, you know, an accounting firm says, «well, here's your book value.»
In part one of our article on liquid alternative strategies,
we looked at equity - based, non-traditional bond and commodity alternatives.
To test this idea,
I looked at equity index returns for Canada, the US and international developed markets (in Canadian dollars) since 1970.
Instead of determining your loan amount based off of your credit score, LoanMart
looks at the equity of your vehicle and your ability to repay your loan1.
Instead of using credit score to approve mortgages, private lenders will
look at the equity in the property.
From there, on the next page the IRS is
looking at your equity — what are you worth financially?
Private lenders
look at equity in a property rather than credit score, allowing them to loan to low credit, insufficient income and other circumstances that wouldn't qualify for a normal bank loan.
The market factor
looks at equities relative to bonds.
[And
look at the equity markets: They certainly seem to have this potential growth differential / lag more than priced in — Europe's now on at least a 30 % P / E discount to the US.]
Hoping to retire in four years and clean up her finances, Saunders
looked at the equity she had in her home — about $ 255,000 on a $ 430,000 condo — and renegotiated a $ 225,000 mortgage at a variable rate of 2.25 %.
If
you look at the equity curve you can see that two things: 1) When the market became completely chaotic the system lost more trades than usual but it never resulted in a huge draw down because of the favorable risk reward ratio of 1:4 (or better).
And before anybody interrupts, this was not a success by any stretch of the imagination —
look at the equity section of the balance sheet, consider the 10 - 20 years that have passed, and it becomes obvious this was an atrocious return on capital, time and energy invested.
Once we also
look at the equity within countries, the picture becomes more complex.
When we started to
look at equity and return - on - investment on homes, it just seemed like a much smarter investment.»
Investors who expect to gain high returns and are open to taking risks could
look at these equity / market linked options.
I compare this to monthly RD & then FD after 15 years (Remember, someone not
looking at equity investments) Monthly investment of 17K on a RD with 5 % interest (After Tax) gives about 45L.
Not exact matches
In our June 1 magazine issue, we
look at one of the more pronounced trends of recent years: the retreat from public
equity markets.
At a minimum, we
look for a 400 - basis - point annual excess return over the public
equity markets.
Because when you actually
look at the relationship across sectors, and you
look at their valuations based on return on
equity, or other measures, all sectors seem to be about fairly valued.
«I'm not going to be dismissive of the risks, but I think markets have priced them in and if anything as we
look at the fundamentals of stock markets around the world, the fundamentals of European
equities right now are I think significantly better than they are for the United States,» said the managing partner of Triogem Asset Management and global investing expert on CNBC's «Fast Money.»
Prosper, another online lender, has been
looking to raise a new round of funding in exchange for
equity at a price that would slash its market value by more than 70 %, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.
«We were not
looking for a buyer when they approached us,» recalls Martin Spirig, a partner
at Invision Private
Equity, the Swiss firm that purchased Feintechnik, along with Austrian - based Alpine
Equity Management, in 2007.
Look at investment opportunities in Southeast Asian, says Morgan Stanley's chief Asia and emerging
equity strategist.
In his view, with U.S.
equity indices realizing all - time highs, now is the time to
look at undervalued markets around the world.
In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers
looked at 72 senior executives
at public, venture - backed and private -
equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.
Fortune takes a
look at five brands that faced criticism in recent months about the pristine brand
equity they had built.
The options advisor added that, instead of exposure to
equities and bonds, investors may want to take a second
look at inflation plays.
Shintani says that companies should also
look at alternative sources of financing: «In addition to a line of credit, business owners should consider SBA lending, micro-financing, or an
equity partner.»
A private
equity fund
looks at the ERP issue similar to the No Marketing Spend — it's an opportunity to invest in the business, so better information is available to managers (and the private
equity fund).
Although the rules and requirements weren't yet finalized as of this writing, it
looks like entrepreneurs
looking to crowdfund via the
equity model will be required to make
at least the following information available to the SEC, to the platform through which they raise funds, and to potential investors:
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