CHAPTER 3 Hedging Strategies Using Futures Tutorial 3 - Practice Questions Problem 3.1. Under what circumstances are (a) a short hedge and (b) a long hedge appropriate? A short hedge is appropriate when a company owns an asset and expects to sell that asset in the future. It can also be used when the company does not currently own the asset but expects to do so at some time in the future. A long hedge is appropriate when a company knows it will have to purchase an asset in the future. It
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Stock futures Stock futures are agreement to buy or sell a specified stock i.e. Equity share of a specified company in the future at a specified price. An investor who is interested in purchasing a share may buy the share in stock exchanges for cash. These agreements are transacted through future exchange with the help of brokers. The terms of the agreement are specified and standardized by the exchange to facilitate funding. A stock future contract may be settled on the prescribed delivery date
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History of Derivatives: A Few Milestones EFTA Seminar on Regulation of Derivatives Markets‚ Zurich‚ 3 May 2012 Steve Kummer (research and redaction) and Christian Pauletto (concept and speech delivery) Policy and Trade in Services Division State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA Introduction This presentation contains a selection of records and events that constitute a part of the history of derivatives. It relates how derivatives date back
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Financial Derivatives Various Types and Pricing of Forward Contracts Contents 1. Introduction.............................................................................................................................3 2.1 Futures...................................................................................................................................4 2.2 Options....................................................................................................................
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Research Proposal Impact of Financial Derivatives Usage on Corporate Market Value: Evidence from Non-Financial Firms in China 1. Introduction Use of financial derivatives for hedging corporate risks purpose is becoming popular during the last two decades. International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) reports the notional amount outstanding of over the counter (OTC) derivatives increased by 25.6% from $511.1 trillion to $642.1 trillion over the five-year period ending December 31‚ 2012
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International Research Journal of Finance and Economics ISSN 1450-2887 Issue 37 (2010) © EuroJournals Publishing‚ Inc. 2010 http://www.eurojournals.com/finance.htm Development of Financial Derivatives Market in India- A Case Study Ashutosh Vashishtha Faculty College of Management‚ Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) Katra. (J&K) India E-mail: ashutosh.vashistha@gmail.com Tel: +91-941-9216301 Satish Kumar Research Fellow‚ Department of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology
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when the acceleration is equal to zero? Solution: By getting the derivative of the distance as a function of time we can get the velocity as a function of time. Substitute the values of α and β a) Given t = 2.00s b) Given t = 4.00s Use: Use: c) First get the equation of the acceleration as a function of time by getting the derivative of the velocity as a function of time.
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1. (a)What are the derivative instruments that the company uses? Overall utilization of derivative instruments by AirAsia is for both purposes of hedging and held for trading. For instance using certain derivative instrument to hedge a particular or contingent risk associated with a recognized asset and liability and highly probable forecast transaction. Derivative instrument are recognized at fair value when parties are entered into contract and subsequently are measured at their fair value
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Derivatives are not the easiest financial instruments to understand and they can definitely get very complex. Regardless‚ derivatives have a long-standing history and have grown in popularity in the financial sector. Some would be surprised to learn that derivatives actually arose many‚ many centuries ago and are not something that just came into importance in the last few decades. In history‚ derivatives have evolved into what they are today. Previously‚ farmers primarily utilized derivatives
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INTRODUCTION: THE REASON TO GO FOR DERIVATIVES S. (http://www.ddegjust.ac.in/studymaterial/mba/fm407.pdf) to achieve a required rate of return with minimum risk on your investments; to overcome or at least minimize the high financial risk arising out of the fluctuating of the interest rates‚ currency exchange rate and stock prices; FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES Derivatives: This is a security‚ whose price is dependent upon or derived from one or more underlying assets. The derivative itself is merely a contract between two or more
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