Harvard University ECON-S 1941 Derivatives and Risk Management Case Write-Up 3: First American Bank: Credit Default Swaps One of Charles Bank International’s (CBI) clients, CapEX Unlimited (CEU), has asked for a new $50 million loan. However, if CBI grants it this loan is exposure to CEU is too large, i.e. the concentration risk exceeds CBI’s internal guidelines. Now, CBI has approached First American Bank (FAB) to see if a credit default swap between FAB and itself can be established, which would
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Payoff Diagrams (16p) Draw the gross payoff (not net-payoff/profit) diagram as a function of MLM stock for the following portfolios consisting of: (Strike values are given in parentheses) (a) one long position in the stock and two short positions in the same put option (K). (b) two long positions in the stock, two short call options (2K), and one long position ina put (K). (c) two short positions in the stock, two long call options (2K), and one short put option(3K). (d) one long
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The gold mining industry has been heavily impacted by the fluctuating gold prices and continuously rising operating costs. Hedging gold prices has become important to ensure financial stability in a sector where mines are unprofitable due to high volatility. Through this case we question the value created by hedging and analyse various instruments to decide upon the best available instrument to Barrick. In this document we explore: 1. Popular theories of hedging and focus on hedging in the gold
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Investment Management Long Term Capital Management HBS Case Questions 1. Analyze different trading strategies of LTCM Answer: LTCM engaged in primarily in convergence and relative value strategies. Relative value strategy : It is a spread trade and it involves two assets whose prices or yields tend to converge with time . it involves long and short positions of similar instruments. This often happens when a company
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probability. The Merton Model proposed by Robert Merton characterizes a company’s equity as writing a call option or buying a put option on the assets of the company with maturity T and a strike price equal to the face value of the debt. The implied volatility from options can be regarded as the expected probability of default. Currently, CEU’s market value of the firm equals to $10,900 million (S0) and the outstanding debt has a maturity of 5 years (T). CEU’s market value of debt is $4,100 million
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Financial Modelling Joaquim Cadete 4 Interest rate risk: the first layer of volatility… Operational Risk: Betas. Operational risk Systematic risk or nondiversifiable risk Unsystematic or diversifiable risk A Total Risk Shareholders’ risk A E E A E A= E Financial Modelling Joaquim Cadete 5 Interest rate risk: the first layer of volatility… Operational Risk: Betas. If A = E, then RA = Rf + βA (RM – Rf). And
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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO WORKING PAPER SERIES Macro-Finance Models of Interest Rates and the Economy Glenn D. Rudebusch Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco January 2010 Working Paper 2010-01 http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/2010/wp10-01bk.pdf The views in this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE USING SAS PROJECT ON “PUT CALL PARITY ON NIFTY INTRADAY DATA” AT INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY, HYDERABAD BY ADITI GUPTA SHIWANI SHARMA SWATI TOMAR TULIKA CHAMADIA APPROVED BY DR. CHAKRAPANI (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR) DATE OF SUBMISSION 15th October, 2013 ACKNOWLEDGMENT We would like to thank several people for their support and encouragement during the project without which this project would not have been a success. At first, we would like to
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How Fair Value Measurement Changes Risk Management Behavior in the Insurance Industry JANUARY 2013 SPONSORED BY Financial Reporting Section Society of Actuaries PREPARED BY Bruce B. Rosner, FSA, MAAA Ernst & Young LLP Mark J. Freedman, FSA, MAAA Ernst & Young LLP The opinions expressed and conclusions reached by the authors are their own and do not represent any official position or opinion of the Society of Actuaries or its members. The Society of Actuaries makes no representation or warranty
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assets (the total return on the S&P500 and NASDAQ) and a risk-free asset (the return on the 10-year government bond). The predictive instruments include changes in the level and shape of the term structure of interest rates and the market’s implied volatility, given current short-term rates as suggested by the level of 1-year government bond rates. A one-factor regression model is employed to test the hypothesis; the factor being the excess return of the portfolio on the market – a measure of of
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