1 Hedging Strategies Using Futures Chapter 3 2 Long & Short Hedges • A long futures hedge is appropriate when you know you will purchase an asset in the future and want to lock in the price • A short futures hedge is appropriate when you know you will sell an asset in the future & want to lock in the price • A short hedge is also appropriate if you currently own the asset and want to be protected against price fluctuations 3 Arguments in Favor of Hedging • Companies should
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Homework: Foreign Currency Transactions and Hedging - Hedging Currency Risk at AIFS Case 1. What gives rise to the currency exposure at AIFS. Currency exposure or currency risk is the type of risk that an individual or a company faces due to the fluctuation in price of one currency against another. For AIFS –a student exchange organization that offers education and travel programs all over the world- the fact that they do business domestically and internationally gives rise to several factors that
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Organization Development Paper on Daewoo Debacle a Tale of Riches to Rags (A Classic example of Chaebol‚ and its failure) Submitted to: Prof. Jatin Christie By Sumita Banerjee Roll No. B-04 The Rationale of the choice of topic and the company In 1999‚ the Daewoo Group‚ one of the biggest transnational conglomerates‚ collapsed‚ committing a staggering $15.3 billion in accounting fraud in the process‚ the largest in world history. In 2006‚ its chairman was sentenced to eight years in prison
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thing to do and a key factor to exceptional value to shareholders. 2. What role did top management commitment play in developing the ethical work climate and organizational performance seen at Alcoa? What other ethical safeguards are mentioned in the case to support the company’s efforts at developing a strong ethical culture? Top management commitment to their values played in important role in their transformation. The leader of Alcoa‚ Paul O’Neill‚ began with reducing the amount of products sold
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Wal-Mart in Europe Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Wal-Mart Background 2 Wal-Mart’s Culture 2 Wal-Mart’s Strategy 3 Problems/Criticism faced by Wal-Mart 3 Wal-Mart in Germany 4 Key Issue: Wal-Mart’s Failure in Germany 4 Situation Analysis 5 Porter’s 5 Forces Model 5 Wal-Mart: Germany vs. Britain 6 Challenges in Germany 7 Evaluation of Alternatives 10 Recommendations 10 Executive Summary The world economy has undergone a drastic revolution in the last three
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107-051-1 MITSURU MISAWA OSG CORPORATION: HEDGING TRANSACTION EXPOSURE On Monday‚ April 24th 2006‚ the US dollar fell to a new three-month low against the yen of ¥114.30/$ in Tokyo’s foreign exchange market‚ the lowest rate since January 16th 2006. This was a reflection of trading in New York three days earlier‚ on Friday‚ where the dollar had fallen more than 1.75% against the yen. The depreciation of the dollar against the yen was a direct result of a meeting of the G7 in Washington D.C. on April
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MNCs will normally compare the cash flows that could be expected from each hedging technique before determining which technique to apply. A futures hedge involves the use of currency futures. To hedge future payables‚ the firm may purchase a currency futures contract for the currency that it will be required. A forward hedge differs from a futures hedge in that forward contracts are used instead of futures contract to lock in the future exchange rate at which the firm will buy or sell a currency
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------------------------------------------------- FE Hedging Strategies at GM Should MNCs hedge foreign exchange rate risk? Multinational firms hedge foreign exchange risk in order to ensure operational and financial functionality. A MNC should hedge foreign exchange risk so it can prevent cash flow effects of the foreign firm and the decline in value of the equity holder because of the movements in exchange rates. It will also help them to reduce transaction costs when obligated to make payments
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cycle‚ and before it knew exactly how much foreign currency it needed. * A key feature was that AIFS guaranteed that its prices would not change before the next catalog‚ even if world events altered AIFS’ cost base. * According to AIFS’s hedging policies‚ it has to predict the exchange rate fluctuation‚ the number of customers‚ which may be different with the final exchange rate and the volume when selling currencies‚ so the currency exposure happens. The actions of AIFS’s competitors may
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They need to purchase diesel fuel in the future‚ they don’t produce diesel fuel‚ so they would want to take a future to be able to lock in the price of diesel fuel for future purchases. 2. What problems could the use of heating oil futures for hedging create for J&L? Note: I assume this question is asking about heating oil specifically not futures in general. As heating oil is not the same product as diesel fuel‚ therefore there could still be some exposure (risk) for J&L. There has been a
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