cedis/$ 1.95 Expected spot exchange rate in 6 months‚ cedis/$ 2.00 Options on Ghanaian cedis: Call Option Put Option Strike price‚ cedis/$ 2.00 2.00 Option premium (percent) 2.00% 3.00% United States Ghana Six-month interest rate for borrowing (per annum) 4.00% 8.00% Six-month interest rate for investing (per annum) 2.00% 6.00% (a) If the company wants to offset their exposure‚ what options they have? And which one is the best? Why? Q2. From base price levels
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Hedging Corporate Revenues with Weather Derivatives: A Case Study Master of Science in Banking and Finance - MBF Master’s Thesis Antoni Ferrer Garcia Franz Sturzenegger Universit´ de Lausanne e Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales HEC - 2001 Abstract This paper searches for the implications in the use of a new generation of financial derivatives known as Weather Derivatives as a form of hedging future corporate revenues. According to the US Department of Commerce about 22 per cent of
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power throw in shot put. While shot put may seem like a sport based simply on upper body strength‚ there is much more too it. As stated by the Live Strong foundation‚ you need to focus on core and leg strength as well as focusing more on power than strength (Flaherty). It is also crucial to make sure that you are using the correct form. I have been throwing shot put for 7 years and it has become one of my favorite things to do. Today I am going to teach you how to hold the shot put‚ the proper form
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Week 9: The Black-Scholes Solution And The “Greeks” (see also Wilmott‚ Chapter 6‚7) Lecture VIII.1 Plain Vanilla The goal of the next two lectures is to obtain the Black-Scholes solutions for European options‚ which belong to the type of basic contingent claims called ‘vanilla options’. These lectures may seem a bit too technical. However‚ I think‚ it is important to have at least some idea about how the BS equation is solved for various financial instruments. I will try my best to keep things
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Investment Policy Statement For JOHN SMITH REVIEW: An Investment Policy Statement (IPS) serves as a blueprint for your investment strategy and lays the foundation for setting up your portfolio management process. We will follow the portfolio management process that will consist of: * Stating policy objectives and constraints‚ based on the client’s needs and expectations. * Individual five constraints: * Time * Tax * Liquidity * Regulatory
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. . . . . . . . . . . . 53 1 The Binomial No-Arbitrage Pricing Model 1.7 Solutions to Selected Exercises Exercise 1.2. Suppose in the situation of Example 1.1.1 that the option sells for 1.20 at time zero. Consider an agent who begins with wealth X0 = 0 and at time zero buys ∆0 shares of stock and Γ0 options. The numbers ∆0 and Γ0 can be either positive or negative or zero. This leaves the agent with a cash position of −4∆0 − 1.20Γ0 . If this is positive‚ it is invested in the money
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Contents: Introduction 4 Methodology 5 Uses of VIX 12 Investor Fear Gauge: 12 Hedging with VIX: 13 Hedging with VIX Options and Futures: 15 Risk management case study application: 16 Conclusion: 20 Bibliography: 21 Introduction The VIX is the ticker symbol for the volatility index that the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) created to measure the implied volatility of options on the S&P 500 index (SPX) over the next 30 calendar days. The formal name of the VIX is the CBOE Volatility Index
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CASE STUDY “LE PHILIPPE” Question1: Describe all the possible outcomes: As the following graph shows‚ from up to down‚ there are totally 6 possible outcomes depending on whether strike the put option or not and how to determine the new coupon rate at 2017 and 2020 respectively. Question2: Calculate the spot rate We can calculate the spot rate according to 1-5 year spot rate and the available 6-10 coupon rate by bootstrapping. We do not have the available 6-9 year spot rate‚ since the
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production of gold and copper. MML can mitigate and reduce these risks by entering into the future contracts and options. Future contract or option is suggested for MML who wants to hedge 50% of the production of gold and copper in March and April. In order to meet MML’s management request of low options premium payment‚ MML is advice to use put bear spread and strangle as their options combination strategy. 1.0 Introduction Metal Mining Ltd (MML)
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Futures Position Transaction Costs of Currency Futures Currency Call Options Factors Affecting Call Option Premiums How Firms Use Currency Call Options Speculating with Currency Call Options Currency Put Options Factors Affecting Currency Put Option Premiums Hedging with Currency Put Options Speculating with Currency Put Options Contingency Graphs for Currency Options Conditional Currency Options European Currency Options Chapter Theme This chapter provides an overview of currency derivatives
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