Financial Risk Management‚ FIN3FRM Semester 2‚ 2012 Assignment 1 Q.1 An investor enters into a short forward contract to sell 100‚000 British pounds for U.S. dollars at an exchange rate of 1.9000 U.S. dollars per pound. How much does the investor gain or lose if the exchange rate at the end of the contract is (a) 1.8900 and (b) 1.9200? (2 points) Solutions: a) The investor as part of obligation for selling pounds‚ because of his obligation to
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enter into a short futures contract to sell July silver for $17.20 per ounce. The size of the contract is 5‚000 ounces. The initial margin is $4‚000‚ and the maintenance margin is $3‚000. What change in the futures price will lead to a margin call? What happens if you do not meet the margin call? Problem 5.2. What is the difference between the forward price and the value of a forward contract? Problem 5.3. Suppose that you enter into a six-month forward contract on a non-dividend-paying stock
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Mechanics of FX Forwards Screening Process Financial institutions screen potential buyers of FX forward contracts to protect themselves from counterparty default risk. Different institutions have different screening methods‚ but all methods try to measure the creditworthiness of the client. This involves analysis of the potential client’s current and historical financial position and credit history. It is worth noting that financial institutions often already have an ongoing relationship with
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Distinguish between futures and forward contract Futures contract A futures contract is a contractual agreement‚ generally made on the trading floor of a futures exchange‚ to buy or sell a particular commodity or financial instrument at a pre-determined price in the future. Futures contracts feature the quality and quantity of the underlying asset‚ they are standardized to facilitate trading on a futures exchange. Some futures contracts may call for physical delivery of the asset‚ while others
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Commodity Forwards: with some focus on crude oil 6-1 Same concept applies… • In general‚ commodity forward prices can be found using the same economic principles used for financial forward prices: F0‚T = S0 e (r − δ )T but the details will be different 6-2 Dirty details • For financial assets‚ δ is the dividend yield • For commodities‚ δ is the commodity lease rate The lease rate is the return that makes an investor willing to buy and lend a commodity • Some commodities
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To what extent does a currency forward contract need to play a formal role in multinational companies? A globalisation has risen over the last 20 years. Because of this factor‚ international markets have increased rapidly‚ therefore a large number of companies have been particularly interested in global operatings‚ such as‚ export trade‚ import trade‚ overseas sales (Moosa‚ 2003). A subsequent significant trouble looming large for
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Journal of Macroeconomics 25 (2003) 109–122 www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase Forward premiums and market efficiency: Panel unit-root evidence from the term structure of forward premiums John Barkoulas a‚b‚ Christopher F. Baum Atreya Chakraborty d a c c‚* ‚ Department of Economics‚ The University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville‚ TN 37996‚ USA b Athens Laboratory of Business Administration‚ Vouliagmeni‚ Greece Department of Economics‚ Boston College‚ 140 Commonwealth Avenue‚ Chestnut Hill‚ MA 02467-3806
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Franc is that 1.15 SF is equal to 1 US $‚ and the annual interest rate on fixed rate one-year deposits of SF is 1.5% and for US$ is 2.5%‚ what is nine-month forward rate for one dollar in terms of SFs? Assuming the same interest rates‚ what is the 18-month forward rate for one SF in US$s? Is this an indirect or a direct rate? If the forward rate is an accurate predictor of exchange rates‚ in this case will the SF get stronger or weaker against the dollar? What does this indicate about the market’s
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Write an essay on the forward Currency Exchange Market explaining in detail why such a market exists and how it operates; its dealers its buyers‚ the purposes for which the foreign currency is used. In your answer refer to the forward and futures market instruments explaining how the current exchange rates are affected by movements in these market prices. Use a website to collect information on the forward rate between the US $ and the Euro. Explain what factors have influenced their movement over
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Pay It Forward (film) Pay It Forward is a 2000 American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It was directed byMimi Leder and written by Leslie Dixon. It stars Haley Joel Osment as a boy who launches a good-will movement‚ Helen Hunt as his single mother‚ and Kevin Spacey as his social-studies teacher. Plot When eleven and a half year old Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) begins seventh grade in Las Vegas‚ Nevada‚ his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin
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