This is a resource that summarizes the investment essentials for young managers. It is designed to provide a better understanding of the role of each financial institution, institutional investors, negative yields, specific investment metrics (PBR, ROE, IRR), trading, and credit trading.
This document provides the minimum finance requirements for young, aspiring executives. It touches on the difference between equity and debt financing, the mechanics of capital raising, the relationship between WACC and ROIC, and share repurchases.
This is a resource that summarizes the investment essentials for young managers. It is designed to provide a better understanding of the role of each financial institution, institutional investors, negative yields, specific investment metrics (PBR, ROE, IRR), trading, and credit trading.
This document provides the minimum finance requirements for young, aspiring executives. It touches on the difference between equity and debt financing, the mechanics of capital raising, the relationship between WACC and ROIC, and share repurchases.
Roughly speaking, both US and Eurozone have been caught in the same structural negative feedback loop.
However, EZ condition is much worse and complicated as there are green shoots in the US real economy, i.e. housing markets though sustainability is uncertain.
1) The IMF projections are based on two big assumptions: that the EU will gradually ease financial conditions in peripheral economies and that the US will prevent the "fiscal cliff" and raise the federal debt ceiling in a timely manner.
2) The IMF projections show global growth of 3.3% in 2012 and 3.6% in 2013, with downside risks.
3) The probability of global growth falling below 2% in 2013, which would be a global recession, has risen to 17% according to the IMF, up from 4% in April 2012.
The document discusses the concept of a "jobless recovery" from the recession and argues that the current situation differs from past recoveries. It questions the real unemployment rate and how it could be better measured. The author cites a source that examines the unemployment rate and how to more accurately assess it.
The US GDP is released quarterly by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, with advance estimates published the month after the quarter ends, preliminary estimates two months after, and final estimates three months after. The annual GDP is revised each July. The document notes that the 2nd quarter 2011 advance US GDP estimate of 1.4% growth did not meet the consensus expectation of 1.9%, with personal consumption up just 0.1%. The preliminary 2nd quarter GDP of 1.0% also fell below consensus, as personal consumption rose 0.4%. Annual revisions lowered 1st quarter 2011 growth from 1.9% to 0.4% and 2009 declines from -2.6% to -3.5%, with 2008 revised from