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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INTRODUCTION In 1992‚ Arundel Partners was looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights were to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wanted to determine if this innovative business strategy is viable by estimating the value of the sequel rights. 2. OBJECTIVE Our report aims to investigate the viability of the implementation of Arundel’s strategy in purchasing sequel rights to produce potential
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Submitted by‚ Anil Anjum Nisar Ahmed Murtaza Naqvi Omer Akif Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project If the first movie was a success they would exercise their right and make the sequel or sell it to the highest bidder. Otherwise they would just write it off their investment schedule. The chances of making a profitable business would largely depend on a good estimate of the rights present value at the contract date. To less would not tempt the studios (inquiries indicated not less than USD 2 million
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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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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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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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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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This case report discussed 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
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different 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
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Arundel Partners Edgefield Consulting 09/25/98 As a new business opportunity arises‚ so do some of the uncertainties that come along with it. Our company has been brought in to evaluate some of these uncertainties that come along when unchartered territory is explored. Arundel Partners has an idea that has great potential‚ but there are a few problems that must be addressed in order for the idea to become reality. First‚ we will look at potential limited partners. More than likely general
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