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Rohit Oberoi
Factors
Environmental Factors
Intrafirm Factors
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Environmental Factors
Factors external to the firm and over which firm has no direct control but which are nevertheless of great concern to the firm because they impact the firms performance.
General globalization of industry & fin. markets
Tax assymetries
Technological advances
Regulatory Change
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Intrafirm Factors
Factors internal to the firm and over which firm has at least some control.
Liquidity Needs Risk Aversion among managers and owners Agency Costs
Greater levels of Formal Training of quantitative Senior Level sophistication among personnel Financial Engineering investment managers
Interest Rate
Price Volatility
Equity Capitalization Rate
Exchange Rate
More Abstract
Rate of Return of Equity(CAPM) Consists of Dividend Rate and Capital Gain Rate
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Demand
Changes RapidlyPrice Volatility
Supply
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Other Factors
Size of market
Inflationary Forces
Globalization of Markets
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Cheap Labor
Globalization
Globalization also leading to greater use of debt in capital structures causing increasing leverages and higher risks thereby paving way for devt. Of Financial Engg. instruments
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Tax Assymetry
A situation in which two parties to a transaction pay different tax rates. This may affect what one party or the other desires about the timing, price, or other factors regarding the transaction.
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Financial engineers that arbitrage tax assymetries helps firms to avoid taxes- a practice ruled by the courts to be a constitutionally guaranteed right.
Technological Advances
Devt in Communications
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Interstate banking broke down, commercial banks became increasingly involved in investment banking.
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Many of the financial products innovated in the 1980s blew up in the faces of the clients firms soon it were issued.
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Agency cost
Risk Aversion
Liquidity Needs
Liquidity has many facets;
Ease of conversion of cash, or put cash to work, Degree to which market can absorb sale and purchase without imposing excessive cost, Size of bid-ask spread.
Financial innovations help corporation and individual to meet these needs
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Money Mkt acct, Sweep Accts, Electronic fund transfer, Certificate of deposit(CD) market, Repo market were designed to provide access to cash or put unneeded cash to work.
Instruments such as floating rate notes, adjustable rate preferred stock are long term securities whose values do not deviate to nearly the same degree as traditional fixed coupons.
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Risk Aversion
Although corporate managers have become increasingly aware of their risk exposures,
These managers are also uncomfortable with the instruments of modern risk management.
Currency Futures
Currency Options
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Agency cost
An agency cost is an economic concept that relates to the cost incurred by an entity (such as organizations) associated with problems such as divergent management-shareholder objectives and information asymmetry. The costs consist of two main sources:
The costs inherently associated with using an agent (e.g., the risk that agents will use organizational resource for their own benefit)
The costs of techniques used to mitigate the problems associated with using an agent (e.g., the costs of producing financial statements or the use of stock options to align executive interests to shareholder interests).
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This helps in increasing the share value, and justifying for the excess payment made.
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In very few areas is quantitative sophistication more important than in investment arena.
By deciphering complex situations through tedious mathematical techniques could enhance returns by a respectable number of basis points.
Example: Institutional Investors such as Mutual Funds, Insurance Companies, Pension Funds, Trust Managers, Security Dealers and Arbitragers uses these techniques.
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