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Investing in commodities
Václavík, Michael ; Drozen, František (advisor) ; Šípek, Ladislav (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is analysis of selected commodity -- cocoa beans, evaluation of the possibilities of investing in the commodity with focus on the most famous financial derivatives -- futures. The first chapter, so called theoretical part is focused on matters of commodity market -- stock market and its participants, analysis of the market and investment opportunities on the commodities market, especially with futures. The second chapter focuses on the cocoa beans market analysis, the most important participants and with the help of fundamental analysis the most important factors influencing supply and demand for the cocoa beans, their impact on the price development. The conclusion summarizes the basic knowledge and evaluates investment opportunities primarily for the smaller investor.
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Valuation and investing in coins
Balada, Pavel ; Veselá, Jitka (advisor) ; Ducháčková, Eva (referee)
This thesis is dedicated to the valuation and investing in coins. The main aim is an explanation and determination of main factors influencing prices of coins. The first part deals with a comprehensive presentation of numismatics as an object of collecting, investing and explain its relationship with modern banking. The second section defines the four main factors influencing the value of coins. It defines their importance, the specific effect on the price and attempts to quantify their exact values. This chapter also mentions three authorized methods of valuation according to a Czech law. The third part is an analysis of three favourite gold investment coins, based on market values for the past five years. The result of the last chapter is the subsequent comparison and evaluation of measured values on which it is made a practical valuation.
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Investing in Russian market using ETF
Belov, Pavel ; Witzany, Jiří (advisor) ; Prokop, Martin (referee)
This thesis deals with the exchange traded funds. The goal is to explore the investment attractiveness of the ETF versus open-end and closed-end mutual funds and identify positive and negative aspects of these investment instruments. This work describes the characteristics of the ETF, the advantages and disadvantages for small and large institutional investors, different investment strategies for trading ETFs. In the analytical part of the thesis is carried out the research of the effectiveness and efficiency of investment in the Russian market today using selected mutual funds and ETFs.
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Investing posibilities of citizen in the Czech Republic
Nocar, Jan ; Bartošová, Jitka (advisor) ; Jelínek, Jiří (referee)
This thesis discusses the options households have when it comes to investing in capital markets in the Czech Republic. The issue of investing and capital market options is analyzed. Following this analysis comes the description of financial instruments, their characteristics, and the usability of these instruments by small investors. On the basis of the theory presented, a study was conducted to examine the usage of individual financial products. The collected data was processed using modern software tools, which helped in drawing several conclusions, results, and recommendations for investors and financial instrument providers alike.
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Investing in Business Cycles
Mynář, Jan ; Brada, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Pech, Václav (referee)
This paper considers the problematic of business cycles. The author aggregates historical findings and development of opinions of business cycles. Author also evaluates methods of business cycle measurements with the use of economic indicators, including their analysis and understanding of their logic. Goal of the paper is to find a way to analyze economic cycles for use in asset allocation for portfolio management purposes.
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Unit Linked Insurance
TOMAN, František
The insurance market offers a large scale of different types of insurance products. Insurance companies offer products ranging from property insurance, airport and air meeting as well as different types of life and non-life insurance. The client has the possibility to choose a product that fully meets his needs. Endowment of Unit linked insurance are one of the most used insurances in the field of life insurances. Endowment insurance is an older product, which is for a long time on the market, but with its construction does not allow the client to be engaged and have the possibility to influence the distribution of the insurance money at any time during the duration of the contract. Therefore the insurance companies came up with a new and very flexible life insurance, which fully suits the needs of present clients and gives them the possibility to be engaged and co-determine on their finances. Unit Linked Insurance is the very life insurance. Comparison of these two types of life insurance is the objective of this presented work. It describes the differences of the two insurances, what are their advantages or disadvantages, but also it determines the possibility of combination of Unit linked insurance with cooperation with mortgage credit. Further it also describes what is important and how to setup the Unit linked insurance so that the bank will accept it as a possible funding of housing.
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Current possibilites of online trading on stock exchanges
Koníček, Tomáš ; Votava, Libor (advisor) ; Diviš, Roman (referee)
The aim of the Bachelor thesis is to clarify which investment attributes are important to retail investor during his process of choosing brokerage provider. Theoretical part of the thesis introduces brief history of investing, primarly shares investing, and also tries to clarify motivation factors of people who decide to invest. Practical part compares current situation of online brokerage houses in Czech Republic, then it deals with defining model investors based on outcome of research done by brokerjet České spořitelny, a.s. on its customer base.
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