summary – Enron Corporation’s Weather Derivatives Steve Haik‚ Dan Sleker and Bas van Bellegem – March 2003 Background In October Mary Watts‚ CFO of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW) reviewed the forward plan for PNW’s 200-2001 season. PNW’s has been experiencing nearly no EPS growth since 1995 due to deregulation and warmer-than-average winter climate. The stock price had suffered accordingly‚ but there maybe a way to hedge the weather risk via a new “weather derivative” being proposed by Enron’s Mike
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Accounting for Derivatives FAS 133 (Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 133‚ Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary This Statement establishes accounting and reporting standards for derivative instruments‚ including certain derivative instruments embedded in other contracts‚ (collectively referred to as derivatives) and for hedging activities. It requires
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INTRODUCTION Financial derivatives have crept into the nation ’s popular economic vocabulary on a wave of recent publicity about serious financial losses suffered by municipal governments‚ well-known corporations‚ banks and mutual funds that had invested in these products. Congress has held hearings on derivatives and financial commentators have spoken at length on the topic. Derivatives‚ however remain a type of financial instrument that few of us understand and fewer still fully appreciate‚ although
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developed in the financial markets‚ which are popularly known as DERIVATIVES. As Financial Instruments‚ Derivatives has become very important in last two decades or so. Though the practice of using Derivatives is very old but formal application of these instruments in financial engineering came only recently. A lot of academic research have been carried out on the various aspects of the financial derivatives. Understanding their applications‚ uses and misuses constitutes
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FBE 459 – Financial Derivatives Spring 2013 Scott Joslin University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Course Description This course intends to be an introduction to financial derivatives‚ namely options‚ futures and swaps. Our main goal will be to focus on the uses of derivatives for hedging and speculation and to understand risk neutral pricing of derivatives. The emphasis of the course will be on conceptual issues as opposed to the institutional aspects (although the basic
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A Paper Presentation Derivative and its impact on capital market Derivative and its impact on capital market On Prepared by Ms. Vidhi Joshi Asst. Professor MBA Department T.N.Rao college of Management Studies Rajkot 1. Introduction to Derivative: The rapidity with which Indian capital market‚ corporate finance‚ banking and investment finance has witnessed a major transformation and structural change from the past one decade and this change in recent years has given birth to a new
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step towards introduction of derivatives trading in India was the promulgation of the Securities Laws(Amendment) Ordinance‚ 1995‚ which withdrew the prohibition on options in securities. The market for derivatives‚ however‚ did not take off‚ as there was no regulatory framework to govern trading of derivatives. SEBI set up a 24–member committee under the Chairmanship of Dr.L.C.Gupta on November 18‚ 1996 to develop appropriate regulatory framework for derivatives trading in India. The committee
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internationally agreed standards.[3]This allowed the sovereigns to mask their deficit and debt levels through a combination of techniques‚ including inconsistent accounting‚ off-balance-sheet transactions as well as the use of complex currency and credit derivatives structures.[3] Germany‚ for example‚ received €15.5 billion from the securitization of pension-related payments from Deutsche Telekom‚ Deutsche Post‚ and Deutsche Postbank in 2005‒06‚ but guaranteed payments so investors bore only the risk of the
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Reformation in Europe(1500-1620) Causes for reformation Conflicts between European nation states People at bottom of social structures tired of being at the bottom Invention of the printing press leading to more people reading and interpreting bible and noticing how corrupt Catholic Church is. Sale of indulgences sold by john Tetzel Modern Devotion or Brothers of Common Life Established by Gerard Groote Based out of Zwolle and Deventer in the Netherlands Stressed having a personal relationship
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North Europe and South Europe There are many countries that are considered by many people to be alike‚ but honestly they are totally different. The examples are easy to find in western countries where it seems that they share common qualities like language origins‚ appearance and so on. However in detail‚ it is hard to tell that they are similar. The countries‚ in particular‚ North Europe and South Europe are the best example. They both are appertained by many countries but the difference
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