Homework 2 Solution‚ Fin 500Q‚ Quantitative Risk Management 1. Assume gold price risk is diversifiable‚ and the riskless rate is 5%. A firm produces a unit of gold a year from today. Assume all interest is compounded annually and is tax deductible. The price of gold is either $500 or $200‚ each with probability 0.5. Suppose the firm pays taxes at a rate of 40% for all its cash flow in excess of $300. The value of the firm is the expected discounted value of its cash flow less the expected discounted value
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498 Assignment 4 Spring 2013 Due Date: March 26‚ 2013 1. Consider the Luxury Seaside Hotel Risk Management case you put together in your previous assignment. Answer the following questions regarding each one of the risk sources you have identified (at least 4). i) If you desired to follow a statistical approach in the assessment of the risk‚ what hard data would you need‚ what hard data do you think would be available‚ what near accident data could be used to support the available
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Analysis of Unilever’s Risks and Risk Management Strategies Introduction With the rapid development of modern economy‚ companies are always exposed to risks which are penetrating to all walks of life and not only exist in the products market‚ but also exist in financial market (Ballou‚ 2005). It is undoubtedly that risks jeopardize the company’s development in that they may increase the cost of a company’s operation and make it harder for a company to make a crucial decision. Accordingly‚ it is
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Risk Management Plan No indoor pyro/flare According to one of the witness‚ “Someone from the crowd tossed a flare and there were immediately flames.” (Joyner‚ 2004). “The blaze started when a flare ignited the flammable foam celling‚ sending burning debris and smoke into the crowd.” ( Carroll‚ 2011). Indoor pyro/flare should not be tolerated in venues such as concerts‚ bands. Club operators should consider audience safety to be part of their responsibility and neither engage in‚ nor tolerate
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Introduction The current regulatory structure in Hong Kong 3. Hong Kong’s current approach to regulation can be characterized as institutional with functional aspects. This means that the firm’s legal status (bank‚ broker or insurance company) determines which regulator is responsible for supervising its activities from both a prudential and conduct of business perspective. However‚ this has been modified in Hong Kong to allow for the fact that banks are conducting a broader range of financial
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Case #1: Merck and River Blindness MGT 597: Leadership Ethics Dr. Brandon Randolph-Seng Javiaur Harmon: Winter Mini 2014 - 2015 1. Think about the definition stakeholders—any parties with a stake in the organization’s actions or performance. Who are the stakeholders in this situation? How many can you list? On what basis would you rank them in importance? The stakeholders in this situation were the employees (research scientists doing the R&D)‚ Merck‚ and the target audience which
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Merck SWOT Analysis MGT/521 July 25‚ 2012 Merck SWOT Analysis Company Overview Merck is the 2nd largest pharmaceutical company in world offering prescription medications‚ biologics‚ vaccines‚ animal health‚ and consumer care products. It generated 48 billion dollars in revenue in 2011 and has 40‚000 employees. Research and development of proprietary medicines for global marketing is the core of the business. Recent acquisitions and transactions designed to take advantage
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Foreign Exchange Transaction risk & Techniques to Control By Z. Song Contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………2 2. Main Body…………………………………………………………………… .2-9 3.1 Transaction exposure………………………………………………………2-3 3.2 Three Hedges………………………………………………………………3-9 3.3.1 Forwards……………………………………………………………4-6 3.3.2 Futures……………………………………………………………..6-8 3.3.3 Currency option……………………………………………………8-9 3. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………...…………
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low as 0.8 million dollars while one dollar equals 0.625 British pound. According to the predictions‚ American economy will enjoy prosperity at a probability of 60%‚ otherwise it will suffer recession. In order to mitigate the operating and currency risk as much as possible‚ some measures must be taken to manage economic and operating exposure. Thus‚ the main body of this case study is divided into three parts. First‚ the currency exposure to be faced with is clarified as well as potential financial
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RISK MANAGEMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INVESTMENT RISKS INTRODUCTION Risk in holding securities is generally associated with possibility that realized returns will be less than the returns that were expected. The source of such disappointment is the failure of dividends (interest) or the securities price to materialize as expected. FORCES INFLUENCING INVESTMENT RISKS External Sources of Systematic Risk: In investments‚ those forces that are external to the firm‚ uncontrollable and broadly
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