What is GM’s foreign exchange hedging policy? GM’s foreign exchange hedging policy has three primary objectives. Its first objective is to reduce cash flow and earnings volatility. Specifically‚ management hedges the company’s transaction exposures and consciously ignores any balance sheet exposures (translation exposures). Second‚ GM aims to minimize the management time and costs dedicated to global FX management. The company employs a passive FX management strategy since an internal study determined
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CHAPTER 11: FORWARD AND FUTURES HEDGING‚ SPREAD‚ AND TARGET STRATEGIES END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS 1. (Short hedge and long hedge) Another type of hedge situation is faced when a party plans to purchase an asset at a later date‚ such as a bread maker. Fearing an increase in wheat prices‚ the bread maker would buy futures contracts. Then‚ if the price of wheat increases‚ the wheat futures price also will increase and produce a profit on the futures position. That profit will at
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QANTAS DISPUTE On October 22nd‚ 2001‚ the Industrial dispute between QANTAS and its employees was initiated with the offering of a new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. This proposed an 18-month wage freeze for employees plus a sliding scale profit share scheme. Ten out of twelve unions under QANTAS accepted the terms of the agreement‚ barring the unions of manufacturing employees (AWU and AMWU). They were holding out for a 4-6% pay rise. On the 8th May 2002‚ some ten months later‚ the dispute was
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| | | | | MGMT Team Report: Qantas | Table of Contents Executive summary 1 Introduction to management issue 2 Company’s industry and External environment 2 The internal environment of Qantas 4 Summary of management issue 6 Analysis of management strategies and their effectiveness 7 Recommendations 9 Bibliography 11 Executive summary Qantas‚ Australia’s largest domestic and international airline service‚ has grown immensely since its formation in 1922 and has
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CASE STUDY ASSESSMENT 2: QANTAS INTERNATIONAL 1.0 INTRODUCTION All over the nation‚ news of Qantas’ restructuring of Qantas International (QI) has reached ears of many Australians and many have voiced out their concerns on the matter. Qantas International has been the weak link in the operations of Qantas group compared to its domestic‚ freight‚ low-cost carrier Jetstar and frequent flyer businesses. Qantas’ new strategy involves expanding its base of operations into the Asian region to capture
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5 Hedging Interest-Rate Risk with Duration Before implementing any kind of hedging method against the interest-rate risk‚ we need to understand how bond prices change‚ given a change in interest rates. This is critical to successful bond management. 5.1 Basics of Interest-Rate Risk: Qualitative Insights The basics of bond price movements as a result of interest-rate changes are perhaps best summarized by the five theorems on the relationship between bond prices and yields. As an illustration
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Qantas in the Airline Industry Air travel industry has come long way. Established with the intention of achieving more efficiency in communication‚ the industry has diversified itself to a far reaching economy. With the advent of war during the mid-centuries and globalization by the end of last century‚ the commerce morphed itself to become more useful in the economies of communication‚ freight‚ domestic and international investments‚ travel and leisure. Qantas which were among the
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Dozier Hedging Alternatives Forward Market Hedge: Dozier would purchase U.S. dollars under a forward contract. The contract would obligate Dozier to pay £1‚057‚500 in exchange for £1‚057‚500 x 1.4198 $/£ = $1‚501‚438.50 assuming the transaction was at the quoted 3-month forward rate in Exhibit 4. Relative to the value of the contract at the current exchange rate‚ £1‚057‚500 x 1.4370 $/£ = $1‚519‚627.50 Dozier would accepting a reduction in the revenue from the contract of $1‚519
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1 One-factor Interest Rate Modeling 1 In this lecture... q stochastic models for interest rates q how to derive the bond pricing equation for many fixed-income products q the structure of many popular interest rate models 2 2 Introduction In this lecture we see the ideas behind modeling interest rates us-ing a single source of randomness. This isone-factor interest rate modeling. q The model will allow the short-term interest rate‚ the spot rate‚ to follow a random walk. This model leads
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Part I – Relation between BI rate and banks interest rate A. BI rate We take the BI rate‚ as the variable being estimated‚ from the period of 2006 until 2012. We then take the average rate in each year‚ rather than taking the rate in each month. As a note to the year 2012‚ we take the average rate that ranges only from January until August. Figure 1. BI rate (Percent per Annum) Source : Indonesian Financial Statistics‚ Bank of Indonesia‚ http://www.bi.go.id/web/en/Statistik/Statistik+
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