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Alizab Assn 2
Alizab Assn 2
A financial security is some saleable right to receive a sequence of future payments, the size of which
can either be guaranteed and known in advance (risk free) or determined be the outcomes of some
uncertain future event (risky).
By saleable, we mean that the investor can sell the security any time before the maturity date of
another investor. How much other investor would be willing to pay for the security is hinged on the
remaining payments, other investment opportunities, prevailing market conditions etc.
1. Debt security
2. Equity security
3. Derivatives security
1. Debt security:
Debts security aye usually government and corporate issued. This is because businesses and
organization needs money to borrow and expand so they borrow money from the public
and pay the interest on the borrowed money. Debt securities are lending money.
Debt security represents money that’s borrowed and must be repaid, with the dimensions
of the loan, rate of interest and maturity. These securities are issued by the governments, a
company or a individual. And sold to someone for a specific amount along with a promise of
interest plus repayments. A debt security includes a maturity date, a specified rate of
interest and fixed amount.
Example of such securities comprise a bond, treasury notes and a bank notes. Notably while
purchasing a bond and invest that is not get any right to participate in the decision making
process while he or she is in title to the reinvestment interest and principle.
Bond are saleable rights to receive a finite sequence of guaranteed payments. Bonds are
generally characterized as risk free securities but in actuality face some risk. These risk
include:
liquidity risk
term risk
inflation risk
default risk
2. Equity security:
Equity security that is common stock means we buy common stock or we
have shares, then we have equity type security that we sold again which is
again financial tradeable asset.
Equity security represents ownership of a company such as stock. If you
can own shares of a company you can profits of an increasing shares prices
or dividends. Equity securities involves owning a piece of a company.
Shares are categories into equity securities segment. Or shareholder owns
apart of firm which issues the shares in a question shareholder get right to
participate in the firm’s decision making process and can receive dividend
too if the firm operates profit. It is imperatively note that equity securities
fall or rise in values in line with the firm and financial market spot use.
Equity security and risk means a stockholder can sells stock to another
person like a bond. A saleable right to receive an indefinitely long sequence
of future payments also known as equity security.
3. Derivatives security:
The third kinds are the derivatives security that offer to right the trade one financial security
at presided terms. For instance, option contracts are classified under derivatives security
which provides an investor that right to sell or buy shares at specific price of an existing
security by an certain date in future.
These derivatives include forward, future, option and swap. These re financial instruments
whose payoff depends on the value of another financial variable (price of bond, price of
stock, exchange rate etc.). These includes future and forward, options, swap and mort age
backed security.
It is less time consuming because investor don not need to monitor on daily basis.
Long term securities have low transaction fee because there is less transaction fee and
less taxes fees.
Disadvantages:
It is slowest way to make money because you need to wait for long time.
The annual returns are lower than traders.
Bond is also referred as borrowed capital.Bond is a financial security, explain its benefit and
enlist the prize bond categories issued in Pakistan.
Bond:
Bond also known as a fixed income security. It is a debt instrument created for the purpose of
raising capital. They are essentially loan agreements between the bond issuer and an investor,
in which the bond issuer is obligated to pay a specified amount of money at specified future
dates.
Bonds in Pakistan:
Various types of government bonds issued by the govt. of Pakistan are as follows:
1. Pakistan investment bonds
2. US special dollars bonds.
3. Wapda bonds
4. National saving bonds.
5. Sukuk
Benefits:
1. Coupon interest:
All bonds have fixed rate of interest. If it is not fix then they tell us a range that interest
level fall in these range. It means that risk is minimize.
2. Face value:
Basically face value is the principle amount or par value. This is mentions because that
when investor or companies return it then they for it that this is the face value.
3. coupon rate:
The rate at which issuer pays interest to investors is known as a coupon rate.
4. Duration or maturity rate:
Company return the principle amount back to investors on specific date. Maturity range
can from low three years to high thirty years.
5. Safe:
Bonds are safe investment than stock.
6. receive recovery amount:
If any company goes bankrupt, bondholders will receive recovery amount.
7. Tax free income:
Bonds that are issued by the state, country or city can even provide tax-free income.
Prize Bond is the best investment in Pakistan, it is considered as the Gold Investment and it is a
bearer type of investment security, which gives no premium or profit. Prize bond are available in
the denominations of Rs. 100, Rs. 200, Rs. 750, Rs. 1500, Rs. 7500, Rs. 15,000, Rs. 25000, Rs.
40,000 and Rs. 40000 Premium Bonds
Prize Bond is basically a lottery bond offered by the National Savings Pakistan (Ministry of
Finance) and issued on behalf of the Government of Pakistan.
Prize Bonds in Pakistan are issued in proper series, and every series is limited to 1,000,000
bonds (one million numbers). Every draw is held quarterly, however no interest or profit is given
on these bonds. Every quarter the lucky winners are announced via lucky draws. These lucky
draws are held in major cities of Pakistan, about 36 times annually. According to numbers, every
year 70,600 Pakistanis win Rs. 1.6 billion rupees in prize money.
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