Chapter 14 14.3. Explain the principle of risk-neutral valuation. The price of an option or other derivative when expressed in terms of the price of the underlying stock is independent of risk preferences. Options therefore have the same value in a risk-neutral world as they do in the real world. We may therefore assume that the world is risk neutral for the purposes of valuing options. This simplifies the analysis. In a risk-neutral world all securities have an expected return equal to risk-free
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FNCE90011 Derivative Securities Topic 1 Fundamentals Topic Outline Basic Concepts Option Payoff and Profit Diagrams Miscellaneous Complicated Payoffs Appendix: Market Structure References Hull (8th edition) Chapters 1‚ 4.2‚ 5.2‚ 9‚ 11 Hull (7th edition) Chapters 1‚ 4.2‚ 5.2‚ 9‚ 11 Hull (6th edition) Chapters 1‚ 4.2‚ 5.2‚ 8‚ 10 Copyright © John C. Handley 2012. 1. BASIC CONCEPTS What is a derivative ? A derivative is an asset/security whose value is completely determined by the
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Problem 1.8. Suppose you own 5‚000 shares that are worth $25 each. How can put options be used to provide you with insurance against a decline in the value of your holding over the next four months? You should buy 50 put option contracts (each on 100 shares) with a strike price of $25 and an expiration date in four months. If at the end of four months the stock price proves to be less than $25‚ you can exercise the options and sell the shares for $25 each. Problem 1.9. A stock when it is first
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compounded)‚ bought call option of price AUD705.2 for the capital protection under S&P 200 index of 4‚637.893 and written call option of price AUD40.9 for the return cap level over S&P 200 index of 7‚884.418. The return is based on 7 months’ arithmetic average index. In order to create the similar option payoff‚ instead of using American or European Options‚ a similar form of Asian options could be used to determine the maturity payoffs of the options. And this type of options can have benefits
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FINS2624 PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Week 6 CAPM: The covariance of an assets returns with the market and the required return of the asset. Assumptions: * Investors are price takers * Investors have identical investment horizons * Perfect capital markets * Investors are rational mean-variance optimizers β: Measures how much risk an asset contributes in the market portfolio. * β > 1 asset contributes more risk than the average asset * β < 1 asset contributes less risk
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following table: Price of Asset in 6 Agreed Forward Price months Payoff to Short Forward 40 10 45 50 5 50 50 0 55 50 -5 60 (b) The payoff 50 50 -10 to a purchased put option at expiration is: Payoff to long put option = max [0‚ Strike price - Spot price at expiration]
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hil61217_ch20_case.qxd 5/12/04 17:17 Page 46 ADDITIONAL CASES ■ CASE 20.3 PLANNING PLANERS This was the first time that Carl Schilling had been summoned to meet with the bigwigs in the fancy executive offices upstairs. And he hopes it will be the last time. Carl doesn’t like the pressure. He has had enough pressure just dealing with all the problems he has been encountering as the foreman of the planer department on the factory floor. What a nightmare this last month has been! Fortunately
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Homework Solution2010Fall second half Ch14 18. There are several ways to approach this problem‚ but all (when done correctly!) should give approximately the same answer. We have chosen to use the regression analysis function of an electronic spreadsheet program to calculate the alpha and beta for each security. The regressions are in the following form: Security return = alpha + (beta ( market return) + error term The results are: | |Alpha
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See attached. 4. Show how the total CAD cost at the end of January of hedging with an option varies under the three scenarios. (The total cost includes what you pay for the USD and what you pay for the option. You can combine this with the table in question 2.) Do you use a call or put option? Call option—pay 1.73/100 per unit in the contract (7.5m)‚ in CAD → CAD 129‚750. If exercise the call option‚ pay CAD 7‚012‚500. Total is CAD 7‚142‚250. 5. Should Pixonix hedge? (A sentence or two
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Grading Summary These are the automatically computed results of your exam. Grades for essay questions‚ and comments from your instructor‚ are in the "Details" section below. Date Taken: 11/22/2014 Time Spent: 1 h ‚ 36 min ‚ 44 secs Points Received: 100 / 100 (100%) Question Type: # Of Questions: # Correct: Short 6 N/A Grade Details - All Questions Question 1. Question : (TCO C) Blease Inc. has a capital budget of $625‚000‚ and it wants to maintain a target capital structure of 60% debt
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