If you plan on investing a large chunk of money in a particular basket of stocks or bonds anyways, why not create an exchange traded fund (ETF) and make money by having other investors invest alongside you? If you get enough outside money invested in your ETF, you could possibly turn your passive activity…
CoCos – aka contingent convertible bonds – are issued by big banks like Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and UBS. They are sold to investors and are sometimes used in lieu of cash as compensation to traders and others that get paid each year with a large bonus. They became popular after the financial crisis of 2008…
What are Cat Bonds? Catastrophe Bonds (“Cat Bonds”) are sold by insurance companies like Allstate, State Farm, and USAA as a way to offload some of the risk that a major weather event like a hurricane or earthquake will force the insurance company to pay out an extremely high amount of claims to their policy…