Asset Class

  

Where assets go to school...Also, a group of investable assets that have similar attributes and risk/return profiles.

Peter liked the idea of investing in things that regularly generated cash flows, while Paul preferred the idea of owning something that could appreciate over time and be sold for a profit. Mary was more derivative, and a bigger risk taker, so she opted for investments that only did well if Peter and Paul’s investments fared well.

Given the differences in what they were looking for and their approaches to risk, Peter, Paul, and Mary invested in different asset classes...bonds, stocks and options, respectively. Each of these is considered a different asset class.

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Finance: What is Loan To Value (LTV)?3 Views

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Finance allah shmoop What is the loan to value ratio

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or ltv All right Well this is the value of

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your house for hundred grand This is your down payment

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one hundred grand And this is your loan of three

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hundred grand loan to value Yeah It's a fraction easy

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Three hundred grand over four hundred grand or three over

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four or seventy five percent Well what does that mean

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Like why do we even care about loan to value

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ratio Well because they speak volumes as to how risky

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the loan is to the bank or whoever is lending

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the dough in this transaction Should you know things go

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awry like you get hit by bus and you can't

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pay it back How does a bank it's loan back

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So you want a low loan to value ratio if

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you're the lender because well the worst thing that happens

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is that you repossess whatever the asset was that was

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pledged as collateral against a loan You just sell it

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to somebody else So what are the odds You could

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get your money back if you're the bank who loan

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three hundred grand against a home that just sold for

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four hundred grand Could you drop the price tow three

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eighty and then pay twenty thousand dollars in realtor costs

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and all the stuff that goes with it And then

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you're down to three sixty and maybe there's some other

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costs and their ten grand or so you get all

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your three hundred thousand dollars loan back and probably fifty

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grand to boot and in theory that might go to

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the cellar but it probably all go to the banks

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lawyers So this equation works great with homes because over

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time holmes generally go up in value knock down because

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there's more people coming onto the earth again and again

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just checked global warming if you're curious about that So

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holmes worked great for mortgages and generally accrue lower loan

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to value ratios over time But how does this work

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when you take out a car loan Yeah cars are

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essentially never an investment They're just a money pit They

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just go down in value So you really wanted that

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forty two two thousand dollars convertible prius with the turbo

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charging battery which gave it a zero to sixty rating

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of seven point eight seconds rather than the standard prius

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Rating zero to sixty of just yes problem You put

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ten thousand down and borrowed thirty two grand on what

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you hoped would be a five year loan Unfortunately six

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months after you drove off the lot the market value

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of your turbo prius is only something like thirty thousand

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dollars maybe less And in that time period you've only

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paid four thousand dollars of principal down on your loan

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So you still owe twenty eight thousand bucks on an

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asset that today would sell form them maybe thirty and

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after commissions transaction costs and lawyer hassle Well it'd certainly

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be worth less than that much money toe whoever had

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to repossess the car and then sell it that's why

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they charge you so much interest rate on car loans

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and only can't blame him Cars suffer this very difficult

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loan to value equation all the time and it's part

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of the reason that car loans air made so difficult

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especially when you go through a dealer and why they

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push you hard to put down a whole lot of

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money up front So the big idea here hi l

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tvs are bad low lt v's are good lenin doubt 00:03:11.5 --> [endTime] Go turbo

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