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In repurchase agreement ex 1 - 1:47 why did you do (purchase price/selling price)^2 for annual rate- didn't get raised to 2 part? - can anyone help in understanding this?
Good presentation, until you got to reverse repos! One party's repo is not the counterparty's reverse. Repos and reverses are completely different transactions. A repo is a loan of money collateralized by securities (i.e. a collateralized loan). Reverses are a form of (or substitute for) a SECURITIES LENDING transaction (eg. borrowing securities to deliver on a short sale). A reverse repo is a loan of securities collateralized by money. If repos and reverses where the opposite sides of the same transaction, the interest rate would be the same, but repo and reverse interest rates are not the same. Reverse repo rates vary by the specific security the "buyer" is reversing in. 'When a specific security is in big demand (i.e. trading special) reverse repo rates are often negative (i.e. the security is repurchased for less than the original selling price