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To Study The Investment Environment Would Be of Importance To The Investor
To Study The Investment Environment Would Be of Importance To The Investor
Let us visualize the world and its economy. There are many countries
with their many economies in this environment. We see the interaction
between countries at different stages in their development. We see the
many markets to enable this interaction between the various
countries. Each of these markets has its regulator, the trading platform and its system, its agents (or
brokers), and the participants.
and supply of various commodities, products & services and trading instruments.
we are today in an
environment where events that take place in other parts of the world have a direct or indirect effect on our
economy.
This would further effect the specific market and finally would
foreign securities that are offered in dollars. c. Buy mutual funds that invest
internationally. d. buy derivative securities with payoffs that depend on
prices in foreign security markets. - 3 - Study notes of Bodie, Kane &
Marcus By Zhipeng Yan 2. Securitization: the biggest asset-backed
securities are for credit card debt, car loans, home equity loans, student
loans and debt of firms. Pools of loans typically are aggregated into passthrough securities. The transformation of these pools into standardized
securities enables issuers to deal in a volume large enough that they can
bypass intermediaries. 3. Financial engineering: the process of bundling
and unbundling of an asset.