David Simmonds - Great Wes VP Officer

GWO-PQ Preferred Stock  CAD 21.41  0.06  0.28%   

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David Simmonds is VP Officer of Great Wes 515
Phone204 946 1190
Webhttps://www.greatwestlifeco.com

Great Wes Management Efficiency

Great Wes' management efficiency ratios could be used to measure how well Great Wes manages its routine affairs as well as how well it operates its assets and liabilities.
Great Wes 515 has accumulated 9.63 B in total debt with debt to equity ratio (D/E) of 25.3, indicating the company may have difficulties to generate enough cash to satisfy its financial obligations. Great Wes 515 has a current ratio of 11.28, suggesting that it is liquid and has the ability to pay its financial obligations in time and when they become due. Debt can assist Great Wes until it has trouble settling it off, either with new capital or with free cash flow. So, Great Wes' shareholders could walk away with nothing if the company can't fulfill its legal obligations to repay debt. However, a more frequent occurrence is when companies like Great Wes 515 sell additional shares at bargain prices, diluting existing shareholders. Debt, in this case, can be an excellent and much better tool for Great to invest in growth at high rates of return. When we think about Great Wes' use of debt, we should always consider it together with cash and equity.

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Great-West Lifeco Inc., a financial services holding company, engages in life and health insurance, asset management, investment and retirement savings, and reinsurance businesses in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Great-West Lifeco Inc. is a subsidiary of Power Financial Corporation. GREAT WEST operates under Insurance - Life classification in Canada and is traded on Toronto Stock Exchange. It employs 24200 people. Great Wes 515 (GWO-PQ) is traded on Toronto Exchange in Canada and employs 31,000 people.

Management Performance

Great Wes 515 Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the Great Wes' board of directors comprises two types of representatives: Great Wes inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of Great. The board's role is to monitor Great Wes' management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. Great Wes' inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, Great Wes' outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
David Simmonds, VP Officer
Raman CFA, Ex Officer
Edmund III, Pres Retirement
Sharon Geraghty, Exec Counsel
Garry MacNicholas, Ex CFO
Gordon Menzie, Sr Treasury
Anne Sonnen, VP Officer
Jeffrey Macoun, Pres Canada
Paul Mahon, CEO Pres
Arshil Jamal, Investments, Strategy

Great Preferred Stock Performance Indicators

The ability to make a profit is the ultimate goal of any investor. But to identify the right preferred stock is not an easy task. Is Great Wes a good investment? Although profit is still the single most important financial element of any organization, multiple performance indicators can help investors identify the equity that they will appreciate over time.

Pair Trading with Great Wes

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Great Wes position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Great Wes will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Great Wes could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Great Wes when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Great Wes - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling Great Wes 515 to buy it.
The correlation of Great Wes is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Great Wes moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Great Wes 515 moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Great Wes can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
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Other Information on Investing in Great Preferred Stock

Great Wes financial ratios help investors to determine whether Great Preferred Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Great with respect to the benefits of owning Great Wes security.