Chapter 2: Asset Classes Flashcards
What two categories can Equities be divided into?
Ordinary and Preference shares
What are ordinary and preference shares known as in the US?
Common stock, and preferred stock.
What are redeemable shares?
Offered to shareholders, company can purchase them back at any time.
What are preference shares?
Less risk than ordinary, rank above in bankruptcy
Generally do not have voting rights
Receive fixed dividend
What are preference shares sometimes known as?
Hybrid securities, as they can have characteristics similar to bonds
What order is preference, ordinary and debtholders paid out in during bankruptcy?
Debt
Pref
Ord
How are dividends decided?
Proposed by directors
Ratified by shareholders during AGM
What can a proxy do?
Vote on behalf of shareholders
What is the nominal value of ordinary shares?
Represents the minimum amount that a company must receive from subscribers upon issue of the shares.
What are the types of preference shares? (5)
Cumulative
Participating
Redeemable
Convertible
Zero Coupon
shares can have any combination of these
What is a cumulative preference share?
Paid dividend and any unpaid dividends from previous years
(how can dividends be unpaid??)
What is a participating preference share?
Preference shares have fixed dividend, participating gives them the opportunity to participate in higher distributions and other liquidation events.
What are redeemable preference shares?
Company can buy back the shares at agreed price in future.
Liability for the company, counts as debt.
What is a convertible preference share?
Shareholder has right, not obligation to convert to ordinary shares
Can provide exposure to upside
What is a zero coupon preference share?
Pay no dividend, but they can redeem at a price above what they are issued
What does SOFR stand for?
Secured Overnight Financing Rate
What are bonds that are linked to interest rates called?
Floating-rate notes (FRNs)
What are bonds that are linked to inflation called?
“Index-linked”
What is a yield?
The measure of the percentage return that an investment provides.
What are the 3 ways to calculate a bond yield?
Flat yield
Gross redemption yield (GRY)
Net redemption yield (NRY)
What is flat yield also known as?
Interest or running yield
How do you calculate the flat yield?
annual coupon / price
How can flat yield be used to see the relationship between interest rates and prices?
As interest rates increase, investors want an equivalent yield on bonds.
As they have an inverse relationship, and the coupon is fixed - the price must fall and vice versa
What is Gross Redemption Yield sometimes known as?
Yield to Maturity (YTM)