no matter how much research you done regarding a stock you don’t have a contract what the future price should be
with high yield bond there is a contract for a certain price in a future, if you are correct about the calculation, you will be correct about your yield
bargain price: liquidation price 75cents on the dollar buy at 20 cents
when you are not a big established investment firm like Lehmen brothers, you have no franchise to protect. You are free to go the unconventional route for potential outsized returns
great ideas are born bad. Its easy to make your way to a great idea from crazy outrageous ones than cautious and sensible ones. Investment bankers by default filter out the crazy outrageous ones.
Contrarian thinkers need to train themselves to see things via unconventional routes
ways to structure a bond
give money back sooner
give higher interest rates
give more stock
give stocks cheap
It is easier for corporation to pay interest which is tax deductible than dividends which are not
Bonds offer process
first tier high rollers offer liquidity get to buy at cheaper price and exit earlier
second tier payers, with franchise to protect, who want to avoid stigma of being junk bond buyers will come in later at more expensive price and exit later.
Successful leverage buyout scenario: after buy out use cashflow from business to pay off the junk bonds thus deleverage the business
Mutual fund arbitrage: compare value of underlying portfolio and stock price
If you are right about a company being undervalued and it is willing to put itself up for sale, there will be buyers
Poison pill: defense mechanism against corporate take overs. When would be acquirers crosses threshold of ownership, existing shareholders are given extravagant rights rights making it less desirable as take over target
Michael Milken:
perception versus reality, see what the world could not.
Vision is Strength.
capital is abundant, vision is scarce.
excess capital is not strength but opportunity for weakness
capital put in the hands of someone with vision will result in drastically different results.
return of the owner manager as opposed to the corporate manager
by-pass the China wall principle where companies try to isolate the deal making and arbitrage departments
