90/10 Strategy

  

Well, they really coulda named this anything...like an 80 / 20 or a 50 / 50 or a 25 / 75 or just...Bob. In this investing strategy, the first amount is invested in something safe; think: shorter term bonds usually A-rated or better. The second number refers to something short-term-riskier, like a stock or an equity index fund, which is almost certainly more volatile than the bond piece. So why'd they name this one a 90 / 10? They didn't have Shmoop around to help them name things. Losers.

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finance a la shmoop what is the debt to equity ratio? well simply put this ratio

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answers the question who owns the company like if the debt to equity ratio

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is high like there's tons of debt and very little equity well, then

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essentially the bank or whoever the lenders are owned the company or at [Assets transfer to bank]

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least the lion's share of the assets comprising it the opposite is true as

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well of course and you can imagine a well-heeled company with tons of cash

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and other assets like land and oil wells and Technology IP and no debt well they

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could have a debt to equity ratio of zero so why do you even track this kind

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of ratio well when companies are young they tend to not have tons of equity and

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over time as they grow and get good at whatever it is they do they will [Clock rapidly ticks forward]

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accumulate valuable assets like cash which are tracked as equity or

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shareholders equity on the balance sheet that lives right here think about it if [Balance sheet appears]

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this side is assets and this side is liabilities well if you're subtracting

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liabilities from assets and you still have a lot of assets left over that's a

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good thing and that line is tracked right here in the shareholders equity [Shareholders equity highlighted on balance sheet]

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line ..........

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you have a company with two billion dollars in debt at 5% interest costing a

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hundred million bucks a year to rent if the company's shareholders equity is

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just 50 million dollars well, the company is essentially owned

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predominantly by its debt holders or lenders should something go wrong even a [A bank vault full of money]

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little bit wrong well the company will go bankrupt the debt holders would own all

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that equity and well spin this around and if the company's equity comprises 10

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billion dollars of cash and a bunch of other assets for a total of 20 billion

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of equity well then you can imagine the debt to equity ratio of just 10% that's

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the equity holders of the company, they'll sleep like babies [Man taking a nap]

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