Case summary – Enron Corporation’s Weather Derivatives Steve Haik‚ Dan Sleker and Bas van Bellegem – March 2003 Background In October Mary Watts‚ CFO of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW) reviewed the forward plan for PNW’s 200-2001 season. PNW’s has been experiencing nearly no EPS growth since 1995 due to deregulation and warmer-than-average winter climate. The stock price had suffered accordingly‚ but there maybe a way to hedge the weather risk via a new “weather derivative” being proposed by
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EUROPEAN WEATHER DERIVATIVES This paper concentrates on where the future of the weather derivatives market may lie‚ where the new applications may be situated and what will be the main drivers of the market size. We realise that some of the applications are not currently available or commercially viable at present but take the view that‚ if demand is sufficient‚ they will become available given time. In fact‚ one of the likely drivers of demand is the rate of change in the European climate. To this
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Basic Derivative Problems 1. (Answers are in red) Select the family member who is offering the most diversification to the rest of the family. A. Dad works for General Motors C. Daughter works for Jiffy Lube 2. Assume that you purchase 100 shares of Jiffy‚ Inc. common stock at the bid-ask prices of $32.00-$32.50. When you sell the bid-ask prices are $32.50-$33.00. If you pay a commission rate of 0.5%‚ what is your profit or loss? A. $0 3. D. $32.50 loss B. $16.25 loss C.
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How did the corporate culture of Enron contribute to its Bankruptcy? Once a sound company listed in fortune 500‚ Enron‚ lead to downfall because of deceptive accounting system incorporated within the organization. Enron’s dubicious finance finally collapsed in Dec 2‚ 2001 as it filed Bankruptcy in New York Bankruptcy court. The corporate culture of Enron focused on financial performance neglecting the stakeholder’s value .The relentless emphasis on the importance of the shareholder’s value created
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document is authorized for use only by Mattia Tenaglia at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Please do not copy or redistribute. Contact permissions@dardenbusinesspublishing.com for questions or additional permissions. ENRON CORPORATION’S WEATHER DERIVATIVES (A) Everybody talks about the weather‚ but nobody does anything about it.1 In October 2000‚ Mary Watts‚ the chief financial officer of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW)‚ a utility servicing the Pacific Northwest region of the United States‚ reviewed
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Derivatives in Financial Market Development Rangarajan K. Sundaram New York University (contact: rsundara@stern.nyu.edu) (contact: ) February 2013 Derivatives in Financial Market Development Rangarajan K. Sundaram Stern School of Business‚ New York University http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/ rsundara 13 September 2012 Contents Executive Summary ii 1 Introduction 2 2 The World Derivatives Market 2 2.1 Basic Derivative Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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BASICS OF DERIVATIVES © Copyright 2002 India Infoline Ltd. All rights reserved. Regd. Off: 24‚ Nirlon Complex‚ Off W E Highway‚ Goregaon(E) Mumbai-400 063. Tel.: +(91 22) 685 0101/0505 Fax: 685 0585 BASICS OF DERIVATIVES CONTENTS FOREWORD ...................................................................................................................... 3 1.INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................... 5 2. FUTURES
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Contents 1 Introduction to derivatives 1.1 Derivatives defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Products‚ participants and functions . . . . . . . 1.3 Derivatives markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.1 Spot versus forward transaction . . . . . 1.3.2 Exchange traded versus OTC derivatives . 1.3.3 Some commonly used derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Introduction A derivative is a financial contract which derives its value from the performance of another entity such as an asset‚ index‚ or interest rate‚ called the "underlying". Derivatives are one of the three main categories of financial instruments‚ the other two being equities (i.e. stocks) and debt (i.e. bonds and mortgages). Derivatives include a variety of financial contracts‚ including futures‚ forwards‚ swaps‚ options‚ and variations of these such as caps‚ floors‚ collars‚ and credit
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Financial Derivatives DERIVATIVE SECURITY: A derivative security is a security whose value is contingent on the value of other more basic underlying variables. Hence derivatives are also known as contingent claims. Very often the variables underlying derivatives securities are the prices of traded securities. For example‚ stock option. Futures and Options ⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒ actively traded on the many different exchanges. Forward Contracts‚ Swaps ⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒ traded outside of exchanges by financial Institutions
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