Risk and Portfolio Management

Happy #FinanceFriday ! We’re now getting to the fun stuff, CALCULATIONS! There are a lot of different calculations CFAs can do to evaluate the potential return and risk of an investment. But don’t you fret!

Financial Planning

We discussed saving money in the first installment of this #FinanceFriday series, but we didn’t cover the financial life cycle.

The financial life cycle describes

Securities Markets Regulation: Part 2

Happy #FinanceFriday  and welcome back for part 2 of our discussion on securities markets regulations! Last week we went over some of the first regulations put in place by the government to protect investors. Now, let’s cover the rest of the regulations that have been established and talk briefly about the sale and pricing of new securities.

Regulations can be very specific regarding what securities they protect and who can benefit from their protection. The following lists seven regulations and their purpose:

Securities Markets Regulation: Part 1

We all know about the Recession of 2008/2009 that impacted the economy and the financial health of the nation, but do you know why it happened? Long story short, mortgage loans were given out like lollypops at banks to people who did not have the means to repay them and many people defaulted on their loans. This lead to a huge deficit and prompted the government to enforce new laws and regulations for mortgage loans. Unfortunately, this is normally how new laws arise; from a crisis rather than from a preventive standpoint.

There are 2 bases of financial regulations: