PROS of Convertible Bonds Convertible bonds offer an investor the opportunity for income in a company in that they typically pay a fixed rate of interest. They also allow an investor the ability to take ownership in the company when they convert that bond to a stock. An investor that is satisfied with that fixed rate of interest can rest a little easier and not have to worry about the common stock fluctuating with the stock markets gyrations. Like other types of bonds investors can park
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1) Why did Merrill Lynch need to update its IT infrastructure? Merrill Lynch needed to update its IT infrastructure in order to remain competitive. One of the most important ways to do so was to provide customers with Internet-based applications that provided them with up to date access to portfolios and the tools needed to work with those portfolios. There are many competitors in the financial management industry and if Merrill Lynch cannot maintain its technological edge then those competitors
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Bond issue price and premium amortization Bond issue price and premium amortization On January 1‚ 2011‚ Placido Co. issued ten-year bonds with a face value of P1‚000‚000 and a stated interest rate of 10%‚ payable semiannually on June 30 and December 31. The bonds were sold to yield 12%. Table values are: Present value of 1 for 10 periods at 10% ......................................... .386 Present value of 1 for 10 periods at 12% ...........
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been assigned the task of investing $100‚000 for a client. The investment alternatives have been restricted to five options: T-Bills‚ High Tech‚ Collections‚ U.S. Rubber‚ Market portfolio‚ and a 2-Stock portfolio. The economic forecasting staff for Merrill Finch developed probability estimates for the state of the economy‚ and the security analysts have developed software to estimate the rate of return on each of these alternatives under each state of the economy. A chart showing the results of the
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through a bond issue. A lot of disagreement was made by several company directors that instead wanted the firm to issue common stock. In the end‚ the argument is about whether to raise debt or equity. What are the annual cash expenses associated with the (a) bond issue? (b) common stock issue? Analysis of issuing stock The cost of issuing stock is lower than bond. The bond has a principal repayment of an additional $6.25 million cash expenses annually and that is over 9% of the bond issue. Also
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The Merrill Lynch Guide to A Message from the Chief Financial Officer Merrill Lynch believes an informed investing public is critical to both the capital markets and the economy. We are committed to clear and accurate reporting of our own financial information and also to an enhanced understanding of the reports of other corporations. This Guide to Understanding Financial Reports is an initiative by Merrill Lynch and its communications partner‚ Addison‚ to provide a clear‚ practical explanation
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MERRILL LYNCH FUTURES‚ INC. VS. COURT OF APPEALS‚ SPOUSES PEDRO M. LARA AND ELISA G. LARA G.R. No. 97816 July 24‚ 1992 NARVASA‚ C.J.: FACTS: Merrill Lynch Futures‚ Inc. filed a complaint against the Spouses Pedro M. Lara and Elisa G. Lara for the recovery of a debt and interest thereon‚ damages‚ and attorney’s fees. In its complaint ML FUTURES alleged the following: that it entered into a Futures Customer Agreement with the defendant spouses‚ in virtue of which it agreed to act as the latter’s broker
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WORLDCOM‚ INC: CORPORATE BOND ISSUANCE Introduction This case raises many interesting questions concerning the record setting issuance of corporate debt by WorldCom‚ Inc. (“WorldCom”). Both the surprisingly voluminous structure of the proposed issuance and the foreboding macro-economic climate in which it was slated spark concerns over the risk and cost of the move. One of the first questions that must be addressed is whether WorldCom’s timing was appropriate. Next‚ the company’s choice of
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merill lynch submitted by: INTRODUCTION About Merrill Lynch: The wealth management division of Bank of America is currently known as Merrill Lynch. It comprises of 15‚000 financial advisors and $2.2 trillion in client assets; it is the world’s largest brokerage. Earlier the firm was publicly owned and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MER. In Brief: In this particular case study we find that Merrill Lynch has introduced a new client relationship technique
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Kevin Lynch: The Image of the City. Cambridge Massachussettes‚ 1960 MIT Press 1. THE IMAGE OF THE ENVIRONMENT Looking at cities can give a special pleasure‚ however commonplace the sight may be. Like a piece of architecture‚ the city is a construction in space‚ but one of vast scale‚ a thing perceived only in the course of long spans of time. City design is therefore a temporal art‚ but it can rarely use the controlled and limited sequences of other temporal arts like music. On different
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