RAISA AYU LESTARI 1091002047 Case 13.4: Texas Instruments 1. Summarize the major features of Texas Instruments’ management systems. 2. How does Texas Instruments ensure that its operating managers appropriately allocate their time between short term and long term? 3. Why do you believe the OST System worked so effectively for TI in the 70s? why was not working effectively for company in the mid-to-late 80s? 4. Would systems like these be appropriate in other organizations‚ such
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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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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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| Minzu Bank | Sobat Bank | Bid | $.0224 | $.0228 | Ask | $.0227 | $.0229 | Determine whether the foreign exchange quotations are appropriate. If they are not appropriate‚ determine the profit you could generate by withdrawing $100‚000 from Blades’ checking account and engaging in arbitrage before the rates are adjusted. Answer: Here Locational Arbitrage is possible. Locational Arbitrage: a) Buy Thai baht from Minzu Bank ($100‚000/$0.0227) = 4‚405‚286.34 b) Sell Thai baht
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POINT/COUNTER-POINT: Should Speculators Use Currency Futures or Options? POINT: Speculators should use currency futures because they can avoid a substantial premium. To the extent that they are willing to speculate‚ they must have confidence in their expectations. If they have sufficient confidence in their expectations‚ they should bet on their expectations without having to pay a large premium to cover themselves if they are wrong. If they do not have confidence in their expectations‚ they
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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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Case Summary of the Loewen Group Inc Summary: The Loewen Group inc.‚ headquartered in Burnaby‚ British Columbia‚ is the second largest funeral service company in North America. Loewen operated and owned over 1100 funeral houses cross every corner of the world and more than 400 cemeteries in U.S. and Canada. By acquisitions in last twenty years‚ Loewen has been grown explosively. Just before the time the company went to bankruptcy‚ the company’s consolidated revenue had grown 30 percent per year
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Derivatives and Hedging Assignment: Hedging Strategy comprised of GM stock and 3.5% is comprised of Ford stock. Assume that GM and Ford are the only automobile industry holdings in the portfolio. Assume that you are bearish on the automobile industry over the next six months and neutral to bullish on all other industries. Utilizing derivatives create a hedging strategy to protect the portfolio over the next six months from your bearish automobile industry outlook. Risk management is defined
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risks associated with the following types of risks: 1. Risks arising from liquidity mismatch or liquidity risk‚ 2. Risks arising from movement in interest rates or interest rate risk‚ and 3. Risks arising from movement in exchange rates or foreign currency risks. Spread lock strategy An agreement that fixes the spread between the forward price of an interest rate swap and its underlying government bond yield. The spread lock allows a future user of an interest rate swap to take advantage of the
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