Guidelines for the Arundel Partners Case Assignment This is a group project and only one case-report should be submitted FIN 6425 – “Arundel Case” Guidelines Nimalendran In this case‚ a movie industry analyst is asked to evaluate a proposed venture in which a group of partners would purchase the sequel rights to movies produced by the major studios. Your objective is to 1) discuss and evaluate the basic concept; 2) determine the value of the sequel rights on a per-movie basis; 3) evaluate
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project The maximum per-film price for the sequel rights that Arundel Partners should pay is $5.12M. If Arundel Partners were to use the traditional DCF methods to find the value of the sequel rights‚ the NPV would be -$8.42M loss per-film (see Appendix 1). Calculation Details We assume that Arundel Partners will purchase a portfolio of films similar to one used in the analysis. The average hypothetical net inflow of the sequel ($21.57M) is used to figure out the value
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Assuming that Arundel Partners is a purely financial company with no experience in the movie industry whatsoever‚ one reason for them to buy the rights to create sequels would be to exploit a possible arbitrage in between the price they would pay for an option to sequels and its real value. Therefore valuing the said option correctly is of the most importance. 1.2 We believe that portfolio negotiation rather than on a film-by-film basis will level the playing field. Since the partners do not have
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reasoning than others. Question 1: Consider a project with the following risk-free cash flows: t = 0 t = 1 t = 2 -40 20 25 Suppose that one year zero-coupon bonds yield 6% and two year zero-coupon bonds yield 8%. 1a) Find the NPV of the project. 20/(1+6%)+25/(1+8%)^2-40=0.3014 1b) Describe the tracking portfolio for this project. FV=25 and 20 1c) Describe how you could finance the project to make arbitrage profits at t = 0 (i.e.‚ a sure cash inflow at t =
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the financial and business situation of an investment group‚ Arundel Partners. Arundel partners focused its investments on the sequel rights of that ‘associated with firms produced by one or more major U.S. movie studios’. As owner of the rights‚ Arundel could continue or reject the production of sequel. Business The proposal was innovative but at the same time‚ very risky. According to the case report‚ ‘Arundel would purchase the sequel rights before the first film were even made. Furthermore‚
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create a new investment group‚ Arundel Partners‚ that would exist solely for the purpose of purchasing sequel rights to motion pictures produced by major U.S. movie studios. The proposal was unusual in that studios rarely sold rights to sequels prior to 1992‚ and interesting in the sense that it did not target specific movies or negotiate prices based on performance of the first movie. Instead‚ Arundel wanted to create a portfolio of options to produce all sequels at a studio for a given time period
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Why This is an Attractive Project The Arundel Partners’ believe that they can make money on this project as it allows them to capitalize on the idiosyncratic risk of the motion picture business. Producing and distributing motion picture films is a risky business due to the uncertainty of moviegoers’ tastes and a studio never knows if they have a blockbuster on their hands until after the movie has started production or even later after it has been released. The financial resources of even the largest
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----------------------------------- spootyhead Apr 17‚ 2007 Arundel Partners Case Analysis ----------------------------------- Arundel Partners Case Analysis Executive Summary: A group of investors (Arundel group) is looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights are to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wants to come up with a decision to either purchase all the sequel rights for a studio’s entire production
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Proponents of this venture believe that Arundel should be able to make money by buying options to movie sequel rights as a portfolio of rights rather than on a film-by-film basis because they are diversifying their risk by spreading their options across multiple projects rather than a single movie. Arundel avoids trying to forecast how well the movie will do by purchasing the options to a group of movies ahead of time‚ thus they minimize the risk of moviegoers preferences changing. Past performances
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Assignment: Arundel Partners You should prepare the Arundel Partners case for class discussion. I will ask several members of the class to present their analyses of the case issues‚ and we will discuss the pros and cons of each approach. In particular‚ one might think of analyzing this case using the real options perspective‚ and/or one might think of analyzing this case using the traditional analysis perspective (DPL‚ @Risk‚ etc.). Choose one or both of these ways of thinking about the problem
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