Behavioural finance Understanding how the mind can help or hinder investment success By Alistair Byrne With Stephen P Utkus For investment professionals only – not for retail investors. 1 Why bother with behavioural finance? This document aims to provide a practical introduction to general tenents of behavioural finance and highlights the potential lessons for successful investing. The behavioural biases discussed in this guide are ingrained aspects of human decision-making
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During the second half of 1997‚ and beginning in Thailand‚ currencies and stock markets plunged across East Asia‚ while hundreds of banks‚ builders‚ and manufacturers went bankrupt. The Thai baht‚ Indonesian rupiah‚ Malaysian ringgit‚ Philippine peso‚ and nouth Korean won depreciated by 40% to 80% apiece. All this happened despite the fact that Asia’s fundamentals looked good: low inflation‚ balanced budgets‚ well-run central banks‚ high domestic savings‚ strong export industries‚ a large and growing
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investments. The financial system determines both the cost of funds (capital) and how much funds will be available to finance consumption and investments. The agents of the financial system that facilitate the movement of the funds from savers to borrowers are the financial institutions. The financial institutions include commercial banks‚ insurance companies‚ investment banks‚ finance companies and mutual funds‚ as well as regulators such as Central Banks‚ Securities and Exchange Commission‚ and the
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Non-Performing Assets In Indian Banks On August 22‚ 2012 in Banking‚ Economy by Prof. S. Srinivasan (External Contributor) The Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of the Indian banking sector have been incessantly rising in the past six months. Historically‚ in 1997‚ NPAs were 15.8% of loans for the banking sector‚ which nosedived to 2.4% in 2008. This figure stands at 2.94% of loans in 2012. In absolute figures‚ NPAs have doubled from 2009 to 2012 and assets under reconstruction had trebled during the
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believe it has 50% chance of increasing to $120 and a 50% chance of decreasing to $80. The risk-free rate of interest is 10%. Valuate a call option with strike price of $100 and one year to maturity with the two-state stock price model a) Construct a binomial tree with the payoff of the option payoff following the class example. b) Construct a replicating portfolio of stock and bond (with the risk free rate of return) that will have the same payoff as the option described in a). What
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Carry Trades and Currency Crashes Markus K. Brunnermeier‚ Princeton University‚ NBER‚ and CEPR Stefan Nagel‚ Stanford University and NBER Lasse H. Pedersen‚ New York University‚ NBER‚ and CEPR I. Introduction This paper studies crash risk of currencies for funding‐constrained speculators in an attempt to shed new light on the major currency puzzles. Our starting point is the currency carry trade‚ which consists of selling low interest rate currencies—“funding currencies”—and investing in
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Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures Prepared By: Danial Wahaj Khan EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This report is based on a practical scenario solution of General motors. The report addresses the problem given in scenario which is the change in policy of hedging with detailed reasoning. The report then looks at the different available hedging instruments to the firm. Profitability of both instruments has been compared and lowest cost option was
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Project finance Aditya Agarwal Sandeep Kaul Fuqua School of Business Contents The MM Proposition What is a Project? What is Project Finance? Project Structure Financing choices Real World Cases Project Finance: Valuation Issues The MM Proposition The MM Proposition “The Capital Structure is irrelevant as long as the firm’s investment decisions are taken as given” Then why do corporations: Set up independent companies to undertake mega projects and
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weeks. This paper will discuss the risk and contingencies associated with the alternate working capital solution. Performance measures will be discussed to show it will be used to evaluate and implement Team C recommendations for Lawrence Sports. Working Capital Policies Team C will look at the following policies for working capital to see which one could be considered appropriate for Lawrence Sports. These policies are characterized by a combination of risk and return‚ and can have from a conservative
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EFB340 – Finance Capstone DOING CASE STUDIES INTRODUCTION Finance Capstone case studies are aimed to introduce you to a real-life work environment which is largely unstructured. You are required to do 4 cases relating to the 4 topics (modules) outlined in the Week One document and Lecture 1. While the first three cases are the responsibility of the entire group‚ the fourth case (the technical paper) is the sole responsibility of the individual. In this way‚ you will obtain experience at
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