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In this video, we're going to go... inside the World of Wall Street. Investment bankers, financial analysts, and hedge fund managers - oh my.

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Principles of Finance a la shmoop... inside Wall Street alright people we're

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gonna take you inside the world of Wall Street with a few career snapshots so [Man presenting inside the walls of wall street[

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that when you have a sense for how that world works and the reason that people

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inside of it earn so much freaking money...Pale that's a good word to

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describe most investment bankers they don't see the sun all right instead

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bankers get cathode ray and LCD tans why well they have mounds and mounds and [Investment bankers office desk cluttered with work]

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mounds of work and a lot of it is just busy work making financial models that

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nobody really reads ie if this company grows at the rate that the CFO says

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it'll grow well how much cash will it produce the next five years and how

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could we help you put that cash to work for a small fee yeah they make pitch [baseball player catches pitch book]

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books that you know kind of pitch a lot of business to clients well you should

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sell your company to X Y Z mega glop Corp today for twenty three dollars a

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share because competition is coming and they'll devour you

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yeah all right and you make a lot of coffee, green, sugar

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yeah that's what they do for clients investment bankers though do one primary

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thing they sell money think about it as a more complex form of those machines [Boy carrying a sofa]

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that convert your couch change into bills for every dollar they convert from

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coin to paper they take a few pennies well that may not seem like much unless

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you frame it in the context of how big banks work imagine converting 10 billion

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dollars a day that's a lot of pennies all right well what about financial [Financial analyst appears with magnifying glass]

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analysts inside the bank how do they work well the lion's share of financial

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analysts work on Wall Street for buy side or sell side firms a buy side firm is a

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mutual fund hedge fund or other investment entity charged with actually

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managing the money for an individual... sell-side firms there are people like

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stockbrokers who basically sell money for a living well financial analysts on

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the buy side are trying to find a rationale to actually buy something to [Financial analyst approaches a baby with a lollipop]

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make an investment to take risk to figure out if or how a given investment

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opportunity is cheap they might ask questions like well is the world just

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panicked for no good reason is there something fundamentally wrong with

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this company is it actually just fairly priced for all the risks involved so

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that's the world of a buy side analysts they're gonna figure out whether or not

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they want to write the check and live or die with their own investment financial [Person clicks buy now for stocks]

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analysts on the sell side get paid well in large part based on the volume of

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commissioned dollars they generate that flow through the desk that they cover so

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if you follow the media industry for a large investment bank much of your power [Woman analyst watching TV and eating popcorn]

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and pay will derive from the buy-side firms simply liking the work you do like

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And you might even get

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a good job sticker.....Alright well there's a subtle but important

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difference here in the impetus behind the reports of financial analysts create

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one is about stock ownership that's buy side the other is about transacting and

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generating commissions that's the sell side financial analysts

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want to run money that is they want to become portfolio managers the backstop [Financial analyst woman in a gym]

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the last word the last person standing ultimately they want to make money run

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right into their wallets by producing good investment returns where they take

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you know a small fee rich, greedy, gun-slinging, narcissistic, powerful, tough

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smart, hungry all right well what are eight words that describe my future

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spouse Alex from Jeopardy especially if your future spouse is a hedge fund [Hedge funder appears from the fire]

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manager well for most hedge funds the fund itself charges two and twenty which

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means they take a 2% fee per year and then after fees are paid they take an

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additional 20 percent of the profits of the fund in any given year as an

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incentive fee which really just boils down to more

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fee so fund managing five hundred million dollars has a solid year and is

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up twenty percent they finished the year with six hundred

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million dollars in AUM or assets under management...

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they'll have charged a bit over ten million dollars in fees that 2% on that

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500 million thing those fees pay the salaries of the financial analysts and [Financial analyst and secretaries appear]

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the secretaries and the lawyers and the rent and the computer costs and all that

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stuff hedge fund managers don't get rich on

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the fees the fees just cover their day-to-day expenses but they do get rich

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on the carry a fancy word for incentive fee and you thought Bank America was [woman attempting to take money out of ATM]

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fee hungry... alright well what do you do all day hedge fund manager wake up there

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you trade stocks so you can tell people that you you know invest but that's not

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really the case for most hedge funds because they have to be sensitive to

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monthly performance that is the industry forces them to be short-term greedy as

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opposed to long-term greedy so they trade a lot really invest just a little

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and well it's a great gig if you have a short attention span all right on to [Hedge fund manager sees butterfly and runs away]

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mutual fund managers - mutual fund managers spend their days meeting with

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company management going to conferences and listening to their propaganda or

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information presentation and then they make financial models which estimate

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future earnings usually based on those estimates while they'll make investments

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or at least recommend investments to their portfolio managers to capture

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growth in stock prices your time horizon is much longer you're actually investing [Mutual fund manager stood outside an apple computer co. house]

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for a long run and you only make a one or two percent of your fee and that's it

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there's no carry in a mutual fund your goal is to be the kind of fortune teller

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who can make someone else a fortune mutual funds unlike hedge funds can't

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short stocks mutual funds can only sell stocks and bonds when they think they're

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you know headed south and mutual funds can't use stock options either they're

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vanilla they can only buy and sell and well that's pretty much it so that's it

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buy side versus sell side it's a friendly war on Wall Street go pick a [Man discussing buy and sell side]

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seat on either side of the table and stay long enough you'll make bank...

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