Fixed Income Jeopardy

Finance

100

Liabilities + Equity = 

Assets

200

What does ETF stand for? 

Exchange Traded Fund

300

What financial services company is the largest issuer of credits cards in the U.S.? 

Visa

400

What financial institution suffered a bank run in 2023, leading to the largest bank failure in the US since the 2007-08 financial crisis?

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) or First Republic

500

Which type of security was the main culprit of the 2007-2010 Great Recession

Mortgage Backed Securities (or more specifically, Non Agency RMBS)

Random AF

100

What country has the most vending machines per capita?

Japan

200

What alcohol is made from juniper berries 

Gin

300

This body part continues to grow throughout a person’s lifetime (excluding hair and nails)

Nose (or Ears)

400

This fictional character’s name is the most commonly used password in the world

Superman

500

Which country has the most time zones? 

The country with the most time zones is France, mostly due to its various territories around the world.  These time zones are:

• UTC−10:00 — most of French Polynesia
• UTC−09:30 — Marquesas Islands
• UTC−09:00 — Gambier Islands
• UTC−08:00 — Clipperton Island
• UTC−04:00 (AST) — Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin
• UTC−03:00 (PMST) — French Guiana, Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• UTC+01:00 (CET) — Metropolitan France
• UTC+03:00 — Mayotte
• UTC+04:00 — Réunion
• UTC+05:00 — Kerguelen Islands, Crozet Islands
• UTC+11:00 — New Caledonia
• UTC+12:00 — Wallis and Futuna

So Dam Random

100

This country’s national animal is the unicorn

Scotland

200

This is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S state name

Q

300

The 4 first names of Kim & Ye's children

North, Saint, Chicago, Psalm

400

The # of times JLo has been engaged

6

500

What is a group of bats called? 

Cauldron

State Capitals

100

Missouri

Jefferson City

200

North Dakota

Bismarck 

300

Vermont

Montpelier 

400

Pennsylvania

Harrisburg

500

Nebraska

Lincoln 

PGIM

100

What does PGIM stand for 

NADA, ZILCH, NOTHING

200

Name 4 of the other PGIM affiliates 

PGIM Private Alternatives

PGIM Private Capital

PGIM Real Estate

Montana Capital Partners (PE)

Jennison Associates

PGIM DC Solutions

PGIM Portfolio Advisory

PGIM Quantitative Solutions

PGIM Wadhwani

PGIM Investments

300

Name 4 types of Fixed Income sectors that PGIM Fixed Income invests in: 

Investment Grade Corporates, High Yield Corporates, Bank Loans, Emerging Markets, Securitized Products, Money Markets, Municipals, Mortgages, and Governments 

400

How much assets under management does PGIM Fixed Income have as of 9/30/24

(closest guess wins, all 6 teams have a chance to try without losing points!) 

859 Billion

500

Where does most of PGIM Fixed Income's Assets Under Management come from (which type of client more specifically)? 

Institutional Clients 

Credit, PAG, and CAG

100

When interest rates go up, bond prices.......

Go down or fall in value

200

What we call bonds which are rated BELOW Baa3 or BBB-

Below Investment Grade or Junk Bonds

300

Which continent do we have the second most clients in? 

Europe

400

General form of debt without any collateral backing which still has a priority claim to collateral vs. equity.

Unsecured Debt

500

Measure of investment risk that takes into account both a bond’s interest payments and its value at maturity—provides a more accurate way to compare interest rate sensitivity and assess risk for different fixed income securities

Duration