Introduction to Asset Classes We’ll try to be brief.

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Introduction to Asset Classes We’ll try to be brief

Transcript of Introduction to Asset Classes We’ll try to be brief.

Introduction to Asset ClassesWe’ll try to be brief

State of the MarketsHow have you been lately?

Equities

• What do you own?

• How do you make money?

• Preferred vs. Common Stock

• Equity Fundamentals

Cause errbody kinda knows

Equity

Preferred Equity

Mezzanine

Unsecured Bonds

Secured Bonds

Bank Debt

Credit

• Financing

• Capital Structure

• Corporate Debt

• CDS

Money upfront

Other Fixed Income, Rates

• Treasuries– The Yield Curve

• Swaps

• Eurodollar/Federal Funds– What is the Fed?– LIBOR?

Governments & You

Currencies

• Factors– Interest Rate– Liquidity– Purchasing power parity– Risk perception

• Quotes/Trading?

Cash Rules Everything Around Me

Options

• Right to buy (or sell) something at a certain point in time

• But you don’t have to if you don’t want to

• Drivers?– Underlying/Spot– Strike– Dividends– Interest Rates– Time– Volatility

The real sexy stuff

Commodities

• Traditional Commodities– Oil, Natural Gas, Sugar, Corn,

Gold

• Fun stuff– Lean hogs, live cattle, orange

juice, pork bellies…basically anything you can touch

• Drivers?• “No one really knows why

gold moves”-Ben Bernanke

Stuff you can touch

Futures

• Drivers?– Cost of Carry– Seasonality– Market Projections

An Option without the option