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... employ a system of so-called maintenance margins such that the value of a contract has to move bya certain amount before a variation margin call is triggered Only the larger banks and financial institutions ... INTRODUCTION A futures contract is an agreement made through an organized exchange to buy or to sell a fixed amount of a commodity or a financial asset on a future date (or within a range of dates) at an agreed ... companies that have to make payments or are due to receive cash flows in foreign currencies on future dates A company can agree a forward deal with a bank and lock into a known foreign exchange rate,...
... investor would sell or buy shares to maintain a constant allocation OTHER APPLICATIONS OF EQUITY SWAPS Equity swaps are extremely versatile tools and have many applications for companies, banks and ... position in a share or a basket of shares as it is to take a long position The client agrees to pay over to the swap dealer any changes (positive and negative) in the value of a share If the share price ... will be a total of four payments, all calculated in the manner illustrated above At maturity the final payment takes place and the swap expires The swap enables the client to achieve a diversified...
... euro, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc All deals are made against the US dollar There is a range of expiration dates and both European- and American-style contracts are traded If a contract is ... r A call on a call – the right to purchase a call option at a later date at a fixed cost r A call on a put – the right to purchase a put option at a later date at a fixed cost The most common application ... underperformance in a rising market may simply be unacceptable All these alternatives have their advantages and disadvantages, but they are by no means the only choices available The creation of...
... that (normally) the sample data are readily available and the method of calculation is quite straightforward In fact all the necessary functions required to work out the mean and the standard ... concerned about rising interest rates can buy a cap and at the same time sell a floor to offset some or all of the premium cost This is called a collar and establishes a maximum anda minimum rate of ... called a zero-cost collar We return to the case of a company that has borrowed £10 million on a variable or floating rate basis Interest payments are made every six months in arrears and the payment...
... Maturity: Exchange ratio: Coupon rate: $100 year Each bond is mandatorily exchangeable into one share at maturity 0% A mandatorily exchangeable (ME) might be issued bya company that has a cross-holding ... obligation to convert a CB If the share performs badly a CB r r r r can always be retained as a bond, earning a regular coupon stream and with the principal or par value repaid at maturity On a day -to- day ... that all other inputs are held constant, and in particular that the spot price and volatility are unchanged throughout There are of course drawbacks to the calendar spread strategy It is gamma...
... year at 10.25% p .a with annual compounding This calculation is the basis for what is known as the annual equivalent rate (AER) or the effective annual rate A rate of 10% p .a with semi-annual ... 6.01% p .a. , and the arbitrage profit disappears FORWARD RATES AND INTEREST RATE SWAPS An interest rate swap (IRS) is an agreement between two parties to exchange cash flows on regular dates, in ... cash flows are calculated on a different basis In a standard interest rate swap, one payment leg is based on a fixed rate of interest and the other is based on a floating or variable interest rate...
... sovereign state and its agencies, or a supranational body A straight or ‘plain vanilla’ bond pays a fixed coupon (interest amount) on regular dates and the par or face value is paid at maturity Bond ... that each has to pay is calculated on a different basis Swap curve A yield curve based on the fixed rates on standard par interest rate swaps Swap rate The fixed rate on an interest rate swap Swaption ... exchangeable bond Must be converted into or exchanged for shares on or bya certain date Margin call When a trader on a derivatives exchange receives a call to make an additional payment because...
... • Familiarize yourselves with the SAS programming environment and language • Learn how to create and manipulate data sets in SAS and how to use existing data sets outside of SAS • Learn how to ... (also called alphanumeric) SAS will assume that variables are numeric unless specified To assign a variable name to have a character value use the dollar sign $ 4.2.2 Datalines statement (internal ... What does the p-value indicate? 45 Now you can… You should be able to the: • Create a data set using a data step in order to: - manipulate a data set (in various ways) - use external raw data...
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