European-style options. For American options‚ the effect is unambiguous: Increasing the time to maturity always increases an option’s value because it increases the uncertainty of the spot exchange rate at maturity. When this effect is combined with the fact that the holder of a 6-month option can always treat the option as a 3-month option‚ we clearly see that the additional 3 months of maturity cannot hurt the payoff to the holder of the option as long as the holder of the option can exercise it
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References: Investopedia Staff. (2010). Foreign Exchange Rates Quotations . Retrieved April 4‚ 2011 from: http://mutualfunds.about.com/od/managingyourportfolio/a/International_Funds_and_a_Depreciating_Dollar.htm Yahoo! Finance. (2011). Retrieved April 4‚ 2011 from http://finance.yahoo.com
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Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS The American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) is a foreign exchange program organization that provides 50‚000 students the opportunity to study abroad. AIFS serve American students traveling abroad to Europe‚ China‚ Mexico‚ and other locations. Therefore‚ AIFS receive cash inflows in dollars while they pay outflows in mostly Euros and British Pounds. The organization had $200 million in annual revenues. AIFS provides two main divisions: the College division primarily
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Prof. Lin Guo FIN 417 HBS Case: Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS Due date: April 12‚ 2012 Instructions: This case should be done individually. You should prepare a written analysis‚ and hand in two copies of your analysis on April 12 in class. Only hard copies of the case analysis are accepted. I will submit one of the copies to the Dean’s office for assessment purpose. Each student should also bring his/her own copy of the write-up to class‚ as well as the case itself‚ so that we can refer
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Hedging Tiffany and Co.’s Foreign Currency Exposure in Japan Prepared for the Board of Directors of Tiffany & Company D.A.M.M. Business Consultants June 15‚ 1993 Table of Contents Executive summary ………………………………… Risk of foreign exchange exposure in Japan ……… Overview of the Japanese Economy ………………. Industry analysis ……………………………………. Internal & external environmental analysis………. Financial analysis …………………………………... Hedging foreign exchange exposure ………………. Recommendation …………………………………… Appendices
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PLEKHANOV RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL Case Study HEDGING CURRENCY RISKS at AIFS Risk Management Master’s Degree Students: Bostandzhyan Kristina Inarkaeva Lamara Kirpichnikova Mariya Starovoytov Stanislav Sysoev Alexander Supervisor: Yulia Finogeeva Moscow 2015 INTRODUCTION AND PROBLEM STATEMENT AIFS is an American based company which was found in the U.S. in 1964. There are two main divisions in the company: the College division‚ which offers
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Introduction Currency Futures Defined Currency Futures are standardised foreign exchange derivative contracts on a recognised stock exchange to buy or sell a standard quantity of one currency against another on a specified future date at a specified price. It allows clients to take a view on the movement of the exchange rate as well as hedge against currency risk. Clients can use Currency Futures as a trading‚ investing and hedging tool.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has permitted the recognized
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Characteristics of Options r Definitions and Positions: - A Call Option gives its owner for a specified time the right to purchase an underlying good at a specified price (= exercise price or strike price) - A Put Option gives its owner for a specified time the right to sell an underlying good at a specified price (= exercise/strike price) - An American Option permits the owner to exercise (=buy/sell the underlying) at any time before or at expiration. A European Option can be exercised
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Currency derivatives Introduction Currency derivatives come in to existences as a hedging tool. As against unfavourable appreciation and depreciation of a single currency. Exporter‚ importer and financial investor have developed a vast range of currency derivative instruments are also used by speculators willing to arrange future currency selling or buying contracts while hoping hoping to buy or sell the currency at favourable anticipated exchange rates in the future. This act of speculator
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Introduction Overview of the hedging techniques In the financial market‚ almost all of companies need to face the currency risk. In order to manage the currency risk‚ companies will use different hedging techniques‚ such as financial and operational hedging techniques. For example‚ money market‚ futures contracts‚ options and forwards contracts are commonly used by firms‚ as well as operational hedging techniques. All of 4 types of financial hedging techniques are short-term hedge. Money market
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