Savings accounts may be made payable on death of the owner to a named beneficiary, if living.11 Securities may be registered in beneficiary form that indicates the present owner and the intended beneficiary who will become the owner upon the death of the present owner.12 Sole owners or multiple owners with right of survivorship may [...]
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CURRENCIES ARE DIFFERENT
The first thing to say about the currency market is that it possesses and obeys a different set of dynamics to other financial markets. Unlike in the case of equity or fixed income markets, the vast majority of currency market practitioners are speculators of one sort or another. Global merchandise trade going through the currency [...]
REER and FEER
In line with the external balance approach, the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) is the trade-weighted exchange rate (NEER) adjusted for inflation. As with PPP, the purpose of using REER is to try to gauge an exchange rate’s over- or undervaluation relative to a given norm. As with PPP, using REER is far from an [...]
Financial Statements
We already know that the value of our firm is determined by its underlying projects. We already know that these projects have cash flows that we use in our NPV analyses. So, why should you bother with learning about what companies say in their financials? A rose is a rose is a rose, isn’t it? [...]