Columbia River Pulp Company Inc. - Interest Rate Hedging Strategy Executive Summary Columbia River Pulp Company (CRP) owned and operated a world class kraft market pulp mill in Longview‚ Washington. The mill began production in 1980‚ after a two year construction period‚ and had a rated annual capacity of 385.000 metrics tonnes of bleached hardwood and softwood pulp. CRP sold their output on the open market‚ to paper products manufacturers in the Unites States‚ Mexico‚ Europe‚ and Japan. CRP
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investors and analysts about the heavy use of the entity of interest rate derivatives. Dick Lodge‚ chief investment officer in charge of the bank’s investments and derivatives portfolio‚ the Director General shall recommend a plan of action to allay the fears of investors to the market and communicate the reasons for Banc One use of derivatives. The Bank uses interest rate swaps to manage its earnings sensitivity to changes in interest rates and attractive investment alternatives to conventional values
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Companies can borrow for a five-year term at the following rates: Alpha Beta Moody’s credit rating Aa Baa Fixed-rate borrowing cost 10.5% 12.0% Floating-rate borrowing cost LIBOR LIBOR + 1% a. Calculate the quality spread differential (QSD). b. Develop an interest rate swap in which both Alpha and Beta have an equal cost savings in their borrowing costs. Assume Alpha desires floating-rate debt and Beta desires fixed-rate debt. No swap bank is involved in this transaction. Solution:
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Derivatives and Hedging Assignment: Hedging Strategy comprised of GM stock and 3.5% is comprised of Ford stock. Assume that GM and Ford are the only automobile industry holdings in the portfolio. Assume that you are bearish on the automobile industry over the next six months and neutral to bullish on all other industries. Utilizing derivatives create a hedging strategy to protect the portfolio over the next six months from your bearish automobile industry outlook. Risk management is defined
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with the broker-dealers through which the broker-dealers executed options transactions on behalf of the broker-dealers’ clients‚ should be held liable for the tortious acts of the broker-dealers. Plaintiffs seek to recover their investment losses‚ interest‚ and statutory attorney’s fees and costs. On March 9‚ 2010‚ the 11th Senate of the German Federal Supreme Court ruled in the plaintiff’s favor in one of these cases‚ and held Pershing liable for a German broker-dealer’s tortious acts. In subsequent
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does it matter? Libor stands for London Interbank Offered Rate. “It is considered to be an average interest rate which is estimated by some leading banks in London that they would be charged if borrowing from other banks.” Libor rate is considered to be the primary benchmark for short term interest rates around the world. It is the average cost of borrowing and is estimated on a daily basis by a group of banks as mentioned above. Libor rate gained momentum around the 1980’s when it became apparent
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BASICS OF INTEREST RATE SWAPS A swap is an agreement between two institutions to exchange future cash flows. Suppose there is a bank receiving fixed 8% return on 2 year money lent. This bank can swap its revenue stream against another firm’s variable rate 2 year money. In practice swaps tend to be more complicated and can involve more simultaneous variations of interest rates and currency as well. When settled‚ only the differential between the would-be payments are exchanged between two parties
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profitable banks and (2) sustaining high returns while mitigating interest rate risk. Banc One has been very successful in acquiring banks‚ and much of this is done through the sale/transfer of Banc One’s stock. This strategy relies heavily on Banc One’s ability to maintain a high stock price. The second strategy – high returns with mitigated interest rate risk - relies heavily on the use of interest rate swaps. This use of interest rate swaps has become concerning to investors - due to its complicated
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used Interest Rate Swaps‚ the most common type of derivative instrument‚ to manage interest rate sensitivity. At these presentations‚ Richard Lodge‚ the chief investment officer‚ made clear that Banc One was not a dealer but an end-user of swaps. Lodge emphasized that the bank’s position was one of hedging and not of speculating. They first started using swaps in 1983‚ and subsequently‚ when the tax reform act of 1986 eliminated the advantages of municipal bonds as a tool for managing interest rate
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the Risk Management section of Wells Fargo’s 2011 Annual Report‚ to be successful they manage and control three major business risks: credit‚ asset/liability‚ and market risk. As for this paper‚ I’m only going to discuss about their credit and interest rate risk‚ which is managed under their asset/liability section. Wells Fargo has continued to invest in its risk infrastructure especially since it is a larger and more complex company than before it merged with Wachovia. Wells Fargo’s Senior Executive
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