Series 7 Notes
Series 7 Notes
Series 7 Notes
Stocks
Bonds
MFs
ETFs
Variable Annuity
Variable Life Insurance
Options
Warrants
Rights
CMO (mortgage)
NOT
- Fixed Annuity
- Life Insurance
EQUITY- STOCK
- Authorized stock shares 100
- IPO (company issues shares): number of authorized shares company
chooses to issue 70
- Treasury Stock: Shares corp. has bought back 20
- Outstanding stock: 100-70+20=50
- EPS(earning per shares)= NI(net income)/(outstanding stock)
RIGHTS WHEN OWNING STOCK
- Voting Rights
o Board Members
o Independent Auditor
o Issuance of Bonds
o Stock split
o Mergers
o Major Policy Changes
Statutory Voting Rights (1 vote for each share: 500 for P
500 for VP 500 for S 500 for T)
Cumulative Voting Rights (Shares x Number of Positions:
500 x 4 positions= 2000 votes that can be used however
the stock holder wants: 1,500 for P and 250 for VP and 250
for T)
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Preemptive Rights
o If new shares are issued, you have right to buy new shares to
maintain your position in the company
Limited Liabilities
CUMULATIVE PREFERRED
- When company decides to start paying dividend again, company has to
make up for years that they didnt pay a dividend. (Better for
shareholders than NON CUM PREF)
DONT COUNT WEEKENDS OR HOLIDAYS WHEN COUNTING TRADE DAYS
ONLY COMMON STOCK HOLDERS HAVE VOTING RIGHTS, NOT PREFERRED
- Kinda like bonds, but bonds have maturity dates and stock is
perpetual
- Preferred stock are interest rate sensitive (inverse correlation)
Participating Preferred stock
- As companies earnings increase, dividend also increases
DIVIDENDS
- Taxed as ordinary income at income tax rate
STREET NAME
- How accounts are owned in a brokerage account.
WARRANT
- Gives you the right to buy a stock (Usually pretty long term)
- Above the current market price
- Kind of like an In-the-money option
RIGHTS
- Also gives you the right to buy stock (Short term)
- Below the current market price
- Kind of like an out-of-the-money option
ADR
- When US bank buys foreign stock and turns around and issues shares
denominated in US dollars
- American Depository Receipt
REIT
- Investment in real estate
- 75% actually has to be invested in real estate
- 90% of income has to be paid out to shareholders
BONDS
- Can be registered by principle only
- Bond prices and interest rates are inversely correlated
- Usually priced as percent (105%= $1,050)
- Real return= Return rate without inflation
- Inflation=Nominal return-real return
CURRENT YIELD
- Assume annual
- Payment(annual)/Current price
YIELD TO MATURITY YTM
- Annualized return if you buy bond today and keep it until maturity rate.
- Total of all coupon payments and return on maturity date
- Discount bond (coupon lower than YTM)
- Premium bond (coupon higher than YTM)
CALLABLE BONDS
- In the best interest of the issuer
- Usually exercised if interest rates fall and they can reoffer bond at
lower coupon rate
- Call date is announced prior to selling, company cannot call at any
time before this date
GOVT SECURITIES
- EE Savings bond
- HH Semi-annual payments
BILLS: Maturity (call date) is in 1 year or less
- Sold at a discount because they dont make payments
NOTES: Maturity in 2-10 years
- Make two semi-annual payments
BONDS: More than 10 years
- Make two semi-annual payments
STRIPS
- Own right to interest payments and right to get $1,000 back
- Strips are when you separate these two rights, and you can transfer
one of these rights to another party
TIPS
- Amount of money you get back adjusts every year for inflation.
- Treasury bond whose maturity value increases by the inflation right.
(Youll get more than 1,000 dollars back at maturity)
- Payment also goes up by par value
AGENCIES
- GNMA
- FNMA
- Sallie May
MUNI BONDS
- G.O: General Obligation (Safer than Revenue), backed by the ability to
tax
- Revenue Bonds: Toll Roads, hospitals, water/sewer, transit systems.
Depends on the ability to project to generate revenue
SYNDICATE: A group of underwriters
- Management fee per bond which goes to lead underwriter managing
the syndicate
- Underwriter fee
SELLING CONCESSION: The money that goes to the dealers from the spread
NO federal taxes and no state or local taxes on MUNI BONDS
Muni yield is less than equivalent risked corporate bond because you dont
have to pay taxes on Muni Bonds.
Municipal Bonds are only suitable for people in high tax brackets
MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS
- Generally something that will mature within a year
SECURITIES ACT OF 1993- Anything dealing with the issuance of new
securities
1934 ACT- Regulates secondary trade markets (SCC)
CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT (CD)
- Essentially a savings account with a maturity date
- Deposit money into CD, and cant take money out until maturity
- Guaranteed by the FDIC (federal deposit insurance coporation): for
banks
- SPIC (securities insurance protection corporation): for broker-dealers
o Doesnt protect against market losses
FEDERAL FUNDS
- Rate charged to banks borrowing overnight from other banks
- Example of money market investment
OPEN MARKET OPERATIONS
- Buying and selling of treasury bills
- Fedl government tool used to manipulate federal funds rate
Repurchase agreement (REPO)
- Dealer sells a loan to the bank, and promises to buy the loan back at a
later date
o Reverse REPO is the opposite
- FIXED REPO
o Interest rate is always fixed, but date is also fixed
- OPEN REPO
o Interest rate also fixed, but date is open
TBILL
- Matures in 3 months
MONEY MARKET FUND
- Where cash goes in a brokerage account if youre not investing in
securities
- Totally liquid
- Can buy fractional shares
- Technically a mutual fund with no commission
BROKERS CALL RATE
- Rate at which bank will lend money to brokerage funds for letting
people borrow on margin account
DISCOUNT RATE
- Rate at which banks are charged to borrow from federal reserve
PRIME RATE
- What bank will charge as interest to its best customers
- Lowest rate customers can borrow at
GDP
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NOMINAL RATE
- Includes inflation
REAL RATE
- Excludes inflation
FALLING INTEREST RATES ARE GOOD FOR STOCKS
FALLING INTEREST RATES INCREASE MONEY SUPPLY
FALLING TAXES GOOD FOR STOCKS
MUTUAL FUNDS
- Pool of securities
- Open Ended
o Create shares for you when you invest
- Closed Ended
1933 ACT
- Deals with initial offerings of securities
CASH vs MARGIN
CASH
- Pay for Everything
MARGIN
- Borrow to buy stock
- 1934 Reg T: 50 %
- Short sales
- Margin is only used in secondary markets
- NON MARGINABLE
o IPOS
o Options
o Non-NASDAQ over-the-counter securities
- Individual brokerage firms can make rules more strict (must put 70%
down) but they cannot make rules more lenient (30% down)
LONG MARGIN
- Buy $12,000 of IBM
o $6,000 cash OR
o $12,000 worth of another marginable security
- EXCEPTION: Have to put at least $2,000 down
BUYING POWER
- SMA x 2
If you have 6,000 dollars worth of SMA, you can buy 12,000 dollars
worth of stock
TOMBSTONE AD
- Name of company
- How many shares have become available
- Underwriters listed
MARKET ORDERS
- Buy/sell shares at the market price
- Used when you want to guarantee trade to go through
- Used when youre not particularly price sensitive
LIMIT ORDER (BUY 100 IBM @135 OB)
- When price hits 135 or lower, it will automatically buy 100 shares of
IBM
- Most you could pay is 135
- If it never hits 135, youll never get it
- SELL 400 JNJ @95 OB (or better)
- Can get partial orders
o Can also used Day limits, which cancel trade if it doesnt happen
that day
o GTC (good til cancel) trade stays active until they are physically
cancelled
- Orders take precedence by time. If two orders come in simultaneously,
the larger order takes precedence.
STOP
-
ORDER
If position slides below stop price, it sells the stock.
Used to protect your losses
LONG 100 MSFT @45
SELL STOP MSFT @38
Can put special condition saying ALL OR NONE (tells them not to split
up order)
FILL or KILL (want it all filled immediately). Difference between this and
ALL or NON is time.