commodity or any other financial asset such as currencies‚ bonds and interest rates. The main function of the derivatives market is to provide financial investment instruments and provide for adequate coverage of risk management. Among the most popular underlying asset find the actions of the stock exchanges‚ currencies‚ stock indexes‚ the values of fixed income to commodities‚ and interest rates. Main features of financial derivatives. Financial derivatives have the following general characteristics
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Options & Futures I. Introduction to Derivatives Prof. Domenico Cuoco Term 5‚ 2013 What is a Derivative? Basic Types of Derivatives The Market for Derivatives Outline 1 What is a Derivative? 2 Basic Types of Derivatives 3 The Market for Derivatives Options & Futures‚ Prof. Domenico Cuoco‚ 2013 I. Introduction to Derivatives 2 What is a Derivative? Basic Types of Derivatives The Market for Derivatives What is a Derivative? Derivatives and Contingent
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Walking Through Some Examples of Futures and Options Contracts – Speculation and Hedging As Dr. Cogley said in class the other day‚ sometimes futures contracts and options are hard to wrap your head around until you see them a few times. So I’ve written up some examples similar to those Dr. Cogley did in lecture‚ with a little more explanation about how we get the results that we do. But before we jump into that‚ we need to revisit our terms. 1. Forward contract: A buyer and a seller agree to a specific
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rate below parity. Therefore Pixonix Inc. faces the risk of the USD appreciating‚ and thus the expense of 7.5 million US dollars will cost more in terms of Canadian dollars; they will have to pay more Canadian dollars for each US dollar. So Cain’s dilemma is that should she hedge her company’s position to protect them from exchange rate risk or should she just let things continue the way they are. We believe that before buying a hedge option‚ she should forecast the profit or loss she may incur
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Session M1.1: Disaster Risk Management Terms and Concepts Note: For further detail definitions and concepts clarity‚ please visit United Nation International Strategy (UNISDR) website http://www.unisdr.org/eng/terminology/terminology-2009-eng.html Crisis A crisis is any event that is‚ or is expected to lead to‚ an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual‚ group‚ community‚ or whole society. Management often requires decisions to be made within a short timeframe & often an event
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Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction is a series of 14 guidance notes for use by development organisations in adapting programming‚ project appraisal and evaluation tools to mainstream disaster risk reduction into their development work in hazard-prone countries. The series is also of relevance to stakeholders involved in climate change adaptation. This guidance note focuses on construction design‚ building standards and site selection‚ and their role in the mitigation of risk due to natural hazards
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The main differences between communicating with adults and communicating with children and young people Unit 203 3.2 /4.1 There are many ways for communicating with adults and children; you should always have good eye contact and show that you are interested in what children and adults are saying to you‚ and always treat them with respect. When communicating with children you need to give clear instructions so that they learn how to communicate with others. You should try not to use complicated
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tistisSolution: Exercise 1 1. What is the difference between a long forward position and a short forward position? Ans: When the enters into a long forward contract‚ he/she is agreeing to buy the underlying asset for a certain price at a certain time in future. When the enters into a short forward contract‚ he/she is agreeing to sell the underlying asset for a certain price at a certain time in future. 2. Explain carefully the difference between hedging‚ speculation‚ and arbitrage. Ans: A
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Corporate Finance Problems and prospects of future contracts and options. Acknowledgement While doing this assingment we were lucky to have some assisstance from different personnels. At first we wan to mention about our honorable course instr-uctor Md. Omar Faruque. He helped us by providing a proper guideline on how to prepare this assingment. He also encouraged us to prepared the assingment in a timely and efficient manner. Now we want to mention some other persons contribution. Mr
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PROJECT REPORT ON “TRADING & CLEARING MECHANISM & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURES AND OPTIONS” SUBMITTED BY (10018‚ 10028‚ 10040‚ 10073) SUMITTED TO PROF. Dr SAMPADA KAPSE. PGDM PROGRAMME (YEAR: 2010-12) TOLANI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES ADIPUR Overview TRADING MECHANISM In Indian context the futures & options traded on NSE is called NEAT-F&O trading system. Entities involved in trading system are: 1. Trading members. 2. Clearing members. 3. Professional clearing members
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