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Mr. Brown readily admitted that he was not at ease discussing the most recent approaches to risk reduction or hedging. He had received his MBA from Harvard in the 1960s and had spent most of his career working for a company that had little international exposure. Moreover, he was not familiar with derivatives such as currency options, which until recently were not widely traded. However, Mr. Brown had recently hired an assistant, Mr. Dan Pross, who had some knowledge of hedging and derivatives. As a student at UCLA, Mr. Pross had traded various types of derivatives for his own portfolio and was familiar with how they were traded. Although Mr. Pross did not have a finance background, he was, in Mr. Brown’s opinion, extremely intelligent and highly capable. Mr. Brown suggested that Mr. Pross make a presentation to the senior management on the use of derivatives to reduce risk.

In order to set the option pricing model, other basic assumptions have been used such as the market is efficient and frictionless which means that people cannot predict with consistency the direction of stocks in the financial market; no tax or transaction costs occur and there are no legal restrictions on trading in the options and in the underlying asset, or on short-selling the asset (Data and Mathews, 2004; Jiang, 2005). The BSM model also assumes that the market is arbitrage free which indicates there

There are many different types of derivative instruments that can be used in financial markets. This paper will examine the various different types of futures contracts, (futures) that are available to be purchased in the marketplace. It will be shown what role they play in managing risk with multinational companies, portfolio managers, and institutional investors alike. It will also be touched on about how speculators can find opportunities for financial gain with the use of futures.

Derivatives have become popular in response to the increasing volatility and complexity of financial markets. A diverse range of new financial products have been created to enable market participants to handle the risks arising from trade in securities and to speculate on future expected movements in securities prices, without direct trade in the assets themselves. Derivative contract creates a promise to deliver or trade an underlying product at some time in the future. The contract gives one party a claim on an

Another study carried out by Shiu Yung-Ming et. al. (2005), examined the determinants and the impact of derivative usage on bank risk. In their study, they said derivatives had proved to be an efficient tool in the management of risk as it was an easy instrument for which residual risk from commercial operations was hedged. They agreed with most researchers by saying that derivative usage was a primary instrument used by both financial and non-financial firms for the management of their financial risks. Thus they came to a realisation that the use of

Option Hedges are a right not an obligation to buy or sell a specified currency at a specific rate on a specified future date. It allows for speculation on the upside while still limiting the loss (Eiteman, Stonehill and Moffett, 2010).

Derivatives are products of financial innovation, the function of which is taking place in the Liberal Economies of the developed and developing world. Especially nowadays, the use of those financial instruments tends to be excessive, as their multifarious functionality can serve institutional investor?s different financial needs.

Option works like insurance to insure the investors’ investment. It is one of the financial instruments that can

“Option prices and stock prices, option volume and stock volume, stock prices and option volume, option prices and stock volume, and stock prices and stock volume (Bhatacharya, 1987).”

Hedging is good if management have more information about exposures and can hedge at lower cost than shareholders. Also reduces likelihood of financial distress and improves planning capacity of the firm.

This is a book about Monte Carlo methods from the perspective of financial engineering. Monte Carlo simulation has become an essential tool in the pricing of derivative securities and in risk management; these applications have, in turn, stimulated research into new Monte Carlo techniques and renewed interest in some old techniques. This is also a book about financial engineering from the perspective of Monte Carlo methods. One of the best ways to develop an understanding of a model of, say, the term structure of interest rates is to implement a simulation of the model; and finding ways to improve the efficiency of a simulation motivates a deeper investigation into properties of a model. My intended audience is a mix of graduate

Another advantage to hedging is that it insulates companies from volatile price movements and ensures stable revenue income as price volatility can have an adverse effect onto revenue and disrupt cash flows. Furthermore, through hedging, a company can ensure certainty in both the production

A hedge is aimed to offset potential losses on investment of an individual or an organization as it reduces overal economic exposure of the two previously mentioned entities by guaranteeing favorable outcome. In other words, a hedge is used to reduce any substantial losses/gains suffered by an individual or an organization.

2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 3.1. 3.2. SWOT Analysis Liquidity Matters Capital Structure Matters Short-term options

   Derivatives emerged as a 'hedging ' device against the fluctuation in prices of commodities & financial instruments. Derivatives can be used in two ways, one  to mitigate economic loss, i.e. 'Hedging ' & the other  to increase the profit of underlying asset, if the value of asset moves in the direction of investor 's expectation .i.e.   'Speculation. '