Single-stock futures allow investors to gamble on the price of an individual equity stock both rising and falling.
On the extreme side, if investors only invest in index funds, individual equity prices would move solely based on their relative weight in the index.
As at end March 2011, the Big Five provided custody for 16.9 percent of total of brokerage industry individual customer equity holdings.
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Among his individual gold equity positions, Paulson took the biggest hits in AngloGold Ashanti, Freeport McMoran (which has exposure to several other metals including copper and silver), and Novagold.
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Individual investors boosted their equity allocations last month to nearly an 18-month high, according to the January AAII Asset Allocation Survey.
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The changes were aimed at tackling wealthy individual involved in private equity but Mr Lambert said the reforms would discourage small and medium size businesses from investing, and also hurt the economy.
This means that the private investors, which the US hopes will include private equity, individual investors, pension plans and insurance companies, will shoulder relatively little risk, with 93% borne by the government.
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The Fed has restored family wealth to its pre-recession high-water mark and individual and institutional debt-equity ratios still rest too heavy in the fixed income sector.
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Measuring individual performance is hard in private equity, because as virtually every firm is quick to say, it tends to be a team effort.
The groups include mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital and individual investors.
The BlackRock segment manages assets on behalf of institutional and individual investors worldwide through a variety of equity, fixed income, multi-asset class, alternative and cash management separate accounts and funds, including iShares.
People use an investment product, such as an equity based investment in an Individual Savings Account, to pay off the debt at the end of the mortgage period - typically after 25 years.
Aside from the actual dividends from the individual stocks, ECV also writes call options on equity indexes to generate gains from option premiums.
The report also calls for tenants to be given greater access to shared equity schemes, more flexibility over their individual arrangements and for councils to have increased control over their own housing needs.
We trade everything from equity and index options to longs and shorts on individual stocks.
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Given the boom in mergers and acquisitions this year, Tilson and Tongue believe that the individual Tyco's parts will prove particularly appealing to private equity investors or a competitor.
Whitney Johnson, a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and former double-ranked Institutional Investor equity analyst, is available to help managers drive individual and firm-wide innovation.
Now multiply that portfolio by the four or five active equity managers that a high-net-worth individual or institution would have and it adds up to 600 or more individual stocks.
These reforms may have made individual sense but combined they have created damaging uncertainty for providers of equity and debt funding, forcing banks to accelerate deleveraging.
For early boomers with exposure to the downturn (that is having two of these assets: housing equity, a 401(k) plan or an Individual Retirement Account), they need to sock away a median 7% more of their compensation each year, including raises, until they reach 65, says Jack VanDerhei, research director of the Employee Benefits Research Institute in Washington, D.
Or, said slightly differently, historically the role of fixed income in an individual's portfolio has been to offset the volatility inherent in having equity exposure.
Although the name of the individual was not released, the Financial Times now says it was an equity trader named Kweku Adoboli ( Linkedin profile).
If you'd prefer to pick off individual stocks, consider these: One company that saw insiders scooping up more equity was Chesapeake Energy.
He reorganized the 16-person office last year to strengthen individual advising, alumni relations and connections with new employers, particularly private-equity firms, hedge funds and technology startups.
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The individual investor has been shocked into a state of perpetual liquidation syndrome as redemptions of equity mutual funds occur regardless of whether the market is down 10% month to date or up 20% in a 6 month period.
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Schultz, after analyzing each of the individual securities, would sell virtually the whole taxable account (except for Sara Lee) and reconstitute the overall equity portfolio to only 10% growth.
From there, in fact, maybe even a greater piece of information is the credit report, because the credit report, obviously, not only gives a Social Security number and personal information about the individual, but it also goes on to indicate where the person has their holdings, whether they have home equity loans, and effectively, they can obtain driver's licenses from that and then they can get open bank accounts.
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