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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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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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 the financial plan for PNW’s 2000–01 forthcoming winter season
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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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thank GOD almighty for giving us strength to complete this project. 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
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www.edupristine.com Derivatives- I Mapping to Curriculum • Reading 60: Derivative Markets and Instruments • Reading 61: Forward Markets and Contracts • Reading 62: Future Markets and Contracts Expect around 6 questions in the exam from today’s lecture © Neev Knowledge Management – Pristine 2 www.edupristine.com Key Concepts • Difference Between OTC And Exchange Traded Contracts • Payoffs of Futures and Forwards • FRA‘s • Margins • Types of Futures © Neev Knowledge Management
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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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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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Chapter 10* Derivatives – The Ultimate Financial Innovation Viral Acharya‚ Menachem Brenner‚ Robert Engle‚ Anthony Lynch and Matthew Richardson I. General Background and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Derivatives Derivatives are financial contracts whose value is derived from some underlying asset. These assets can include equities and equity indices‚ bonds‚ loans‚ interest rates‚ exchange rates‚ commodities‚ residential and commercial mortgages‚ and even catastrophes like earthquakes and hurricanes
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Financial Derivatives Market in India This research study encompasses in its scope an analysis of historical roots of derivative trading‚ types of derivative products‚ regulation and policy developments‚ trend and growth‚ future prospects and challenges of derivative market in India. The study is organized into three sections. Section I deals with the concept‚ definition‚ features and types of financial derivatives. Section II has been devoted to a discussion of the growth of derivatives market
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