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Essentials of Investments
Eleventh Edition
Bodie, Kane, and Marcus
Chapter 1
Investments: Background and
Issues
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1.1 Real versus Financial Assets
Nature of Investment: Reduce current consumption for
greater future consumption
Financial Assets:
Claims on Real Assets or Real Asset Income
• Property, plants and equipment, human capital, etc.
• Productive Capacity
• Real Assets
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Table 1.1 Balance Sheet, U.S. Households, 2017
Note: Column sums may differ from total because of rounding error.
SOURCE: Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States, Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System, March 2017.
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1.1 Financial Assets = Financial Liabilities
Financial Assets and Liabilities must balance.

Financial Assets (Owner of the claim)

Financial Liability (Issues of the Claim)
Aggregated balance sheets → only real assets remain
Domestic Net Worth = Sum of real assets
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Table 1.2 Domestic Net Worth, 2017
Assets
$ Billion
Commercial real estate
$18,335
Residential real estate
33,061
Equipment and IP
8,449
Inventories
2,523
Consumer durables
5,418
TOTAL
$67,786
Note: Column sums may differ from total because of rounding error.
SOURCE: Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 2017.
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1.2 Financial Assets
Asset Classes
• Common Stock


Fixed Income Securities


Ownership stake in entity, residual cash flow
Money market instruments, Bonds, Preferred stock
Derivative Securities

Contract, value derived from underlying market
condition
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1.3 Financial Markets and the Economy (1 of 7)
Informational Role of Financial Markets
• Capital flow to companies with best prospects
• Market Price = Fair Value?
Do markets allocate capital to best uses?
• Other mechanisms to allocate capital?
• Advantages/disadvantages of other systems?
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1.3 Financial Markets and the Economy (2 of 7)
Consumption Timing
• Use securities to store wealth
• Transfer consumption to the future
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1.3 Financial Markets and the Economy (3 of 7)
Risk Allocation


Investors select desired risk level

Bond vs. stock

Bank CD vs. company bond
Is there always a Risk/Expected Return trade-off?
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1.3 Financial Markets and the Economy (4 of 7)
Separation of Ownership and Management
Separation → Agency Problems
Mitigating Factors

Performance-based compensation

Boards of directors may fire managers

Threat of takeovers
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1.3 Financial Markets and the Economy (5 of 7)
Corporate Governance and Corporate Ethics
• Businesses and markets require trust


No trust → additional costly laws and regulations
Governance and ethics failures cost the economy

Erodes public support and confidence
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1.3 Financial Markets and the Economy (6 of 7)
Corporate Governance and Corporate Ethics
• Accounting scandals


Misleading research reports


Enron, WorldCom, Rite-Aid, HealthSouth, Global
Crossing, Qwest
Citicorp, Merrill Lynch, others
Auditors: Watchdogs or consultants?

Arthur Andersen and Enron
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1.3 Financial Markets and the Economy (7 of 7)
Corporate Governance and Corporate Ethics

Sarbanes-Oxley Act:

Requires more independent directors on

CFO to personally verifies the financial statements

Oversight board for the accounting/audit industry

Charged board with maintaining a culture of high
ethical standards
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1.4 The Investment Process: Asset Allocation
Asset Allocation
• Primary determinant of a portfolio’s return
• Percentage of fund in asset classes, for example:
• Top Down Investment Strategies starts with Asset
Allocation
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1.4 The Investment Process: Security Selection
Security Selection
• Choice of particular securities within asset class
• Security Analysis


Analysis of the value of securities.
Bottom Up Investment Strategies starts with Security
Selection
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1.5 Markets Are Competitive (1 of 4)
Risk-Return Trade-Off
• Assets with higher expected returns have higher risk
Stocks
Average Annual Return
Minimum (1931)
Maximum (1933)
About 12%
−46%
55%
• Stock portfolios lose money an average of 25%
• Bonds
• Lower average rates of return (under 6%)
• Not lost more than 13% of value in any one year
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1.5 Markets Are Competitive (2 of 4)
Risk-Return Trade-Off
• How do we measure risk?
• How does diversification affect risk?
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1.5 Markets Are Competitive (3 of 4)
In Efficient Markets Securities should
• be neither underpriced nor overpriced on average
• reflect all information available to investors


Your Belief in Market Efficiency
Choice of Investment-Management Style
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1.5 Markets Are Competitive (4 of 4)
Active
Management
Passive
Management
Inefficient
Efficient
Security Selection:
Actively Seek
Undervalued
Stocks
No Attempt to
Find Undervalued
Securities
Asset Allocation
Market Timing
No Attempt to
Time Market
Markets are…
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1.6 The Players (1 of 6)
Business Firms (net borrowers)
Households (net savers)
Governments (can be both borrowers and savers)
Financial Intermediaries (connectors of borrowers and
lenders)
• Commercial banks
• Investment companies
• Insurance companies
• Pension funds
• Hedge funds
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1.6 The Players (2 of 6)
Roll of Government?
Roll of Intermediaries?
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1.6 The Players (3 of 6)
Investment Bankers
• Specialize in primary market transactions
• Primary market



Newly issued securities offered to public
Investment banker “underwrites” issue
Secondary market

Preexisting securities traded among investors
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1.6 The Players (4 of 6)
Investment Bankers
• Separate from commercial banks’ functions by law
(1933-1999)

Post-1999: Large commercial banks increased
investment-banking activities, pressuring investment
banks’ profit margins

September 2008: Mortgage-market collapse

Major investment banks bankrupt;
purchased/reorganized
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1.6 The Players (5 of 6)
Investment Bankers


Investment banks may become commercial banks

Obtain deposit funding

Have access to government assistance
Major banks now under stricter regulations
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Table 1.3 Balance Sheet of Commercial Banks,
2017
Note: Column sums may differ from total because of rounding error.
SOURCE: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, www.fdic.gov, March 2017.
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Table 1.4 Balance Sheet of Nonfinancial U.S.
Business, 2017
Note: Column sums may differ from total because of rounding error.
SOURCE: Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States, Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System, March, 2017.
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1.6 The Players (6 of 6)
Venture Capital and Private Equity

Venture capital


Equity Investment to finance new firm
Private equity

Investments in privately-held companies
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1.7 The Financial Crisis of 2008 (1 of 6)
Changes in Housing Finance
Old Way
• Local thrift institution
made mortgage loans to
homeowners
• Thrift’s possessed a
portfolio of long-term
mortgage loans
• Thrift’s main liability:
Deposits
New Way
• Securitization: Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac bought
mortgage loans and
bundled them into large
pools
• Mortgage-backed securities
are tradable claims against
the underlying mortgage
pool


“Originate to hold”
“Originate to distribute”
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1.7 Changes in Housing Finance (1 of 2)
Securitization:
FIGURE 1.4
Cash flows in a mortgage pass-through security
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1.7 Changes in Housing Finance (2 of 2)
Inclusion of nonconforming “subprime” loans
Low/No-documentation loans
Rising loan-to-value ratio
Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
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Figure 1.3 Case-Shiller Index of U.S. Housing
Prices
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1.7 The Financial Crisis of 2008 (2 of 6)
Mortgage Derivatives

CDOs: Consolidated default risk of loans onto one
class of investor, divided payment into tranches

Ratings agencies paid by issuers; pressured to give
high ratings
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1.7 The Financial Crisis of 2008 (3 of 6)
Credit Default Swaps

Insurance contract against the default of borrowers

Issuers ramped up risk to unsupportable levels

AIG sold $400 billion in CDS contracts
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1.7 The Financial Crisis of 2008 (4 of 6)
Systemic Risk

Risk of breakdown in financial system — spillover
effects from one market into others

Banks highly leveraged; assets less liquid

Formal exchange trading replaced by over-thecounter markets — no margin for insolvency
protection
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1.7 The Financial Crisis of 2008 (5 of 6)
The Shoe Drops

September 7: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac put into
conservatorship

Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch verged on
bankruptcy

September 17: Government lends $85 billion to AIG

Money market panic freezes short-term financing
market
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Figure 1.1 LIBOR, T-Bill Rates and the TED
Spread
Jump to long description
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1.7 The Financial Crisis of 2008 (6 of 6)
Dodd-Frank Reform Act

Stricter rules for bank capital, liquidity, risk
management

Mandated increased transparency

Clarified regulatory system

Volcker Rule
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Figure 1.2 Cumulative Returns
Cumulative returns on a $1 investment in the S&P 500
index
Jump to long description
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1.8 Text Outline
Part One: Introduction to Financial Markets, Securities,
and Trading Methods
Part Two: Modern Portfolio Theory
Part Three: Debt Securities
Part Four: Equity Security Analysis
Part Five: Derivative Markets
Part Six: Active Investment Management Strategies
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Appendix of Image Long Descriptions
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1.3 Financial Markets and the Economy (2 of 7)
Long Description
A straight horizontal line representing consumption extends
midway point on the graph. A bell-shaped curve for income
is shown and where it starts and ends, below the
consumption line, is labeled Dissavings. Savings is above
the consumption line.
Jump to image
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1.6 The Players (2 of 6) Long Description
Upward sloping diagonal line represents who supplies
capital, or households. Downward sloping diagonal line
represents what demands capital, or firms.
Jump to image
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Figure 1.1 LIBOR, T-Bill Rates and the TED
Spread Long Description
Percent is on the vertical axis, and the years 2000 to 2018, marked for
January of each year, are on the horizontal axis. TED spread begins at 0.05
percent and trends between 0.05 percent and 1 percent until going into
January 2008. Between roughly July 2007 and January 2008, it trends
between 1 percent and 2 percent. At January 2009, it spikes to 3.5 percent,
dropping to almost zero by January 2010. It trends under 0.05 percent for the
remainder of the period. The 3-month T-Bill start at 5.5 percent, spikes to 6
percent at January 2001, and then drops to 1 percent around July 2003. It
then climbs to 5 percent in January 2006 and trends there until roughly July
2007, where it drops to 1.25 percent in January 2008 and zero in January
2009. It trends between 0 percent and 0.25 percent for the remainder of the
period. The 3-month LIBOR trends with the 3-month T-Bill, but half a percent
higher over the period. All values are approximations.
Jump to image
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Figure 1.2 Cumulative Returns Long Description
Cumulative Value of a $1 Investment is on the vertical axis
and the years 1980 to 2018 are on the horizontal axis. The
S and P index climbs from 1 in 1980 to 30 by 2000, drops
to 20 in 2003, up to 30 again in late 2007, dropping to 15 in
2009, and then climbing steadily to end at 50 in 2016. All
values are approximations.
Jump to image
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FIGURE 1.4 Case flows in a mortgage
pass-through security Long Description
Four rectangles are arrayed horizontally and labeled, left to
right: homeowner, originator, agency, and investor. Under the
boxes, arrows indicate a left to right flow: principle and interest
(P and I) to P and I minus servicing fee to P and I minus
servicing minus guarantee fee. Above the boxes, arrows
indicate a right to left flow of $100,000 between each box.
Jump to image
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Essentials of Investments
Eleventh Edition
Bodie, Kane, and Marcus
Chapter 2
Asset Classes and Financial Instruments
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2.1 Asset Classes
Asset Classes
• Fixed Income
• Equity
• Derivatives
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2.1 Fixed Income: Money Markets
Asset Classes
• Fixed Income




Money Markets
Capital Markets
Equity
Derivatives
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2.1 The Money Market
Subsector of the fixed-income market
• Short-term
• Liquid
• Low risk
• Often have large denominations
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2.1 The Money Market: Treasury Bills (1 of 3)
Treasury Bills
Issuer: Federal Government
Denomination: Commonly $10,000; $1,000
Maturity: 4, 13, 26 or 52 Weeks
Liquidity: High
Default Risk: None
Interest Type: Discount
Taxation: Owed: Federal; Exempt: State, Local
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2.1 The Money Market: Treasury Bills (2 of 3)
FIGURE 2.1 Treasury bill listings
Source: Wall Street Journal Online, April 18, 2017.
DAYS TO
MATURITY
BID
ASKED
CHG
ASKED
YIELD
June 8, 2017
51
0.730
0.720
unch.
0.731
August 17, 2017
121
0.793
0.783
−0.010
0.795
October 12, 2017
177
0.905
0.895
−0.028
0.911
December 7, 2017
233
0.928
0.918
−0.023
0.936
March 29, 2018
345
0.988
0.978
−0.020
1.000
MATURITY
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2.1 The Money Market: Treasury Bills (3 of 3)
Bank Discount Rate (T-bill quotes)
$10,000 − P 360
rBD =
×
$10,000 = Par
$10,000
n
rBD = bank discount rate
P = market priceof the T – bill
n = number of days tomaturity
Example: 90-day T-bill, P = $9,875
$10,000 − $9,875 360
rBD =
×
= 5%
$10,000
90
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2.1 The Money Market: Certificates of Deposit
(CDs)
Certificates of Deposit
Issuer: Depository Institutions
Denomination: Any, $100,000 or more marketable
Maturity: Varies, Typically 14-day Minimum
Liquidity: High for CDs
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