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Investment risk analysys. Week 1 Individual Assignment 1 Rachel Fleischaker
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Week 1 Individual Assignment 1
Rachel Fleischaker
FIN420
Erik Steiner, AIU Adjunct Faculty
June 9, 2006
Introduction:
Selecting an investment takes time and some knowledge of the investment types available. You must have clearly defined investment goals, know which instruments will best meet those goals, and finally, how transactions to purchase and sell those instruments occur. In this document we will examine the following:
You have been asked to write a training document about the US Bond Market for use in the new employee training program. In your document, you must make sure to address each of the following:
1. the key players in the market; and the types of investments available to both individual investors and institutional investors,
2. the way transactions are carried out, and
3. the relation, if any, between the bond markets and the stock markets.
Analysis:
The first thing that must be defined is investment goals. Depending on investment goals, there are a variety of bond instruments available. Bonds, generally, are debt obligations used by the issuing entity to fund specific projects within the entity. These include municipal, corporate, government, mortgage-backed or asset-backed securities, and international bonds. Within each of the sectors listed, you find a variety of features – different issuers, varying yields and maturities, coupon rates, and risks as well as rewards.
Let us examine each of the various types of bonds, along with the associated risks and rewards. We will begin with municipal bonds.
Municipal bonds are debt obligations to cities, counties, states and agencies within governments used to fund specific projects like schools, roads, hospitals, sewer and water projects, and so on. The issuer promises to pay a specific interest payment at a specified time,...
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