000 40‚000 27‚500 7‚500 5‚000 40‚000 The current ex div ordinary share price is $4.50 per share. An ordinary dividend of 35 cents per share has just been paid and dividends are expected to increase by 4% per year for the foreseeable future. The current ex div preference share price is 76.2 cents. The loan notes are secured on the existing non-current assets of Droxfol Co and are redeemable at
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Case Delta Beverage Group‚ Inc. History The Delta Beverage Group is a bottling and canning company from the United States. Delta had some very strong brand names‚ like Pepsi and Mountain Dew‚ included in their franchises. Around 1988‚ a price war occurred and Delta suffered from compressed margins. About a year later situation became critical and a new management team from was hired. The new management stopped the fall in prices‚ the decline in market share and increased margins by changing
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commodity futures. Commodities exchange also refers to the physical center where trading takes place. A commodities exchange is an exchange where various commodities and derivatives products are traded. Most commodity markets across the world trade in agricultural products and other raw materials (like wheat‚ barley‚ sugar‚ maize‚ cotton‚ cocoa‚ coffee‚ milk products‚ pork bellies‚ oil‚metals‚ etc.) and contracts based on them. These contracts can include spot prices‚ forwards‚ futures and options on
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Barings Bank Case Study 1. Nick Lessons sold numerous short straddles for each long futures contract he bought because he need the cash created by the premiums he received by selling the short straddles. Lesson’s needed large sums of cash to fund his margin calls‚ which forced him to sell disproportionate numbers of short straddles for each long future position he took. 2. The doubling strategy allowed Leeson’s the opportunity to recoup losses suffered ‚ which required him to double his bets
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Due to the fluctuations of yen/dollar exchange rate‚ the new distribution agreement with Mitsukoshi gave rise to high exchange-rate exposure for Tiffany to bear. The exposure goes in the following two ways: Economic Exposures. From 1983 to 1993‚ the yen/dollar exchange rate was along a down turn path (see Exhibit 1). In the past‚ Tiffany wholesaled its products to Mitsukoshi. Since the wholesale transactions were denominated entirely in dollars‚ yen/dollar exchange rate fluctuations did not represent
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the risk exposure and risk management of a company or industry. Guidelines for this research project are given at the end of this syllabus. Course Subject and Objectives This course focuses on forward contracts‚ futures contracts‚ options and swaps. By the end of the term students will learn how these contracts work‚ how they are used for risk management‚ and how they are priced. This subject belongs to the field of quantitative finance and traditionally it is referred to as “financial engineering”
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that will either mature or be repriced during the same time period. c. when a bank adjusts its asset and liability durations to zero. d. how much the cumulative gap will change during a future interval. 4. Banks participate in the markets for interest rate and currency forwards‚ futures‚ options and swaps because: *a. they may use derivatives to speculate on the direction of changes in interest rates or currency exchange rates. b. they may use derivatives to earn higher
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Group and NAFED Introduced India’s first Commodity Investment product in demat form called e-Series. 1.3 Mission: To develop a pan-India‚ institutionalized‚ electronic‚ transparent Common Indian Market offering compulsory delivery-based spot contracts in various agricultural and non –agricultural commodities with a reduce cost of intermediation by improving marketing efficiency and‚ thereby‚ improving producers’ price realization coupled with reduction in consumer paid price. 1.4 Objectives:
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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. The contracts come in many forms‚ but the more common ones include options‚ forwards/futures and swaps. It is not an exaggeration to state that a considerable portion
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summarizes the theoretical and empirical research on how the introduction of derivative securities affects the underlying market. A wide array of theoretical approaches has been applied to the question of how speculative trading‚ the introduction of futures‚ or the introduction of options might affect the stability‚ liquidity and price informativeness of asset markets. In most cases‚ the resulting models predict that speculative trading and derivative markets stabilize the underlying market under certain
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