Download or read book Hedging Foreign Exchange Risk with Portfolio Insurance Strategies written by James Conover and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the use of portfolio insurance strategies to manage foreign exchange risk faced by investors domiciled in the United States. The investors manage their foreign exchange exposure by purchasing foreign exchange traded options in the futures market, the spot market, or in both markets. Option investment has been analyzed in the domestic stock option literature as part of portfolio insurance strategies. These portfolio insurance strategies examine the impact on the payoff pattern of adding options to a well-diversified portfolio of stock. The addition of foreign exchange call options to a portfolio that contains only the domestic riskless asset adds limited foreign exchange risk. Alternatively, the addition of foreign exchange put options to a foreign exchange holding limits foreign exchange risk. The degree of foreign exchange risk added depends on the relative quantities and terms of the assets and the options in the portfolio. This dissertation examines several hypotheses about the value of three alternative portfolio insurance strategies implemented in the spot market and in the futures market. This research addresses the following research question: which portfolio insurance method is optimal for an investor? The question is examined by testing hypotheses using paired historical returns. The returns are calculated using traded fiduciary calls, traded protective puts, and dynamic replication of fiduciary calls in the spot market and in the futures market. The tests of the hypotheses indicate that the mean returns for strategies in the spot market are greater than mean returns for strategies in the futures market for premium fiduciary calls and discount protective puts, but that futures protective put mean returns are greater than spot protective put mean returns for discount currencies. The fiduciary call strategy has greater mean returns than the protective put strategy in the spot market for premium currencies but the spot protective put strategy has greater mean returns for the discount currency ...

Download or read book Hedging Foreign Exchange Risk with Portfolio Insurance Strategies written by James Allen Conover and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing Foreign Exchange Risk written by David F. DeRosa and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Finance written by Cheng-Few Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new reference work covering all aspects of finance. Coverage includes finance (financial management, security analysis, portfolio management, financial markets and instruments, insurance, real estate, options and futures, international finance) and statistical applications in finance (applications in portfolio analysis, option pricing models and financial research). The project is designed to attract both an academic and professional market. It also has an international approach to ensure its maximum appeal. The Editors' wish is that the readers will find the encyclopedia to be an invaluable resource.

Download or read book Portfolio Insurance and VaRoP A Comparison written by Ralf Hohmann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, , language: English, abstract: Investments in money and capital markets involve different loss potentials that market participants should be able to manage. Below follows an overview and comparison of selected strategies to manage these risks. Portfolio insurance (PI) strategies were developed in the 1980s. They are used to hedge portfolios or individual investments against price losses. The volume of assets hedged with these strategies is significant. Different forms of individual strategies have developed over the years. Risk quantification and Value at Risk (VAR) strategies emerged around the same time. Risks of individual investments or portfolios were measured and different strategies were developed to take them into account in Value at Risk optimised portfolios (VaRoP). VaRoP is a strategy that calculates an optimal portfolio taking into account a given or permissible maximum VAR. Both strategies are intended to protect portfolios from losses in value. Their similarities and differences as well as their successes are presented and summarised in this paper. Their applicability in practice is also examined.

Download or read book Corporate Hedging Strategies in the Foreign Exchange Forward Markets written by Carl H. Walther and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Some Like It Hedged written by Momtchil Pojarliev and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign currency exposure is a by-product of international investing. When obtaining global asset exposure, investors also obtain the embedded foreign currency exposure. Left unmanaged, this currency exposure acts like a buy-and-hold currency strategy, which receives little or no risk premium and adds unwanted volatility. In “Some Like It Hedged,” the author shows that the impact of foreign currency exposure on institutional portfolios depends significantly on the base currency of the investors and the specific composition of their portfolios. In general, investors whose base currency is negatively correlated with global equities, as are the US dollar and the Japanese yen, will reduce the volatility of their portfolios by fully hedging foreign currency exposure. In contrast, investors whose home currency is positively correlated with global equities, as is the Canadian dollar, will benefit from keeping some unhedged foreign currency exposure—in particular, exposure to the US dollar. Finally, investors with larger allocations to domestic assets will experience only small reductions in volatility from hedging. Pojarliev discusses a variety of options to address foreign currency exposures. Although there is no single best-practice solution for addressing foreign currency exposures, institutional investors have three main choices. Do nothing (i.e., maintain unhedged foreign currency exposure). Doing nothing is always the easiest option, but from a risk–return perspective, it could be the worst available choice. Currency has no long-term expected return because, although it is a risk exposure, it is not an economic asset. Hence, long-term currency returns are expected to be zero. Hedging should, therefore, have no long-term impact on the return and only affect the volatility. The volatility reduction from hedging can be redeployed more efficiently by increasing exposure to economic assets for which a risk premium exists. Hedge passively (i.e., maintain a constant hedge ratio).In general, hedging some of the foreign currency risk will decrease the volatility of the portfolio. The relationship between a specific hedge ratio and the decrease in volatility depends on the particular portfolio and, most importantly, on the base currency of the investor. Yet, passive hedging creates its own problems, including negative cash flow generation when foreign currencies are appreciating and detraction from returns because of hedging costs. Passive hedging might also introduce a major market-timing risk. If the base currency weakens after a passive policy is implemented, the investor will suffer substantial hedging losses when the forward currency hedging contracts settle. Hedge actively (i.e., vary the hedge ratio). One way to address the market-timing risk of implementing a passive hedging program is to actively time the hedging of the foreign currencies. An active hedging program seeks to reduce the risk of the foreign currency exposure but varies the hedge ratios for the various currencies based on market views to avoid negative cash flow and to generate positive returns. A successful active hedging program should both add to the return of the portfolio and lower the volatility, and it should outperform both an unhedged and a passive hedging benchmark. The best choice to address foreign currency exposure will differ from institution to institution, but it boils down to two fundamental factors. First, the optimal solution depends on the importance of risk versus return and the institution’s tolerance for negative cash flow. Second, investors must decide whether they believe that currency managers are able to achieve a positive information ratio over the long run after fees and, importantly, whether they will be able to identify these currency managers. Any currency policy will depend on the details of the specific portfolio—in particular, on the base currency of the investor and the size of the foreign currency exposure.

Download or read book Portfolio Insurance Strategies by a Large Player written by Aymeric Kalife and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market liquidity risk refers to the degree to which large size transactions can be carried out in a timely fashion with minimal impact on prices. Emphasized by the G10 report in 1993 and the BIS report in 1997, it is one factor of destabilization in the financial markets, as illustrated recently by the Asian crisis, the failure of the hedge fund LTCM during the Russian crisis. So in order to assess welfare implications of portfolio insurance strategies, it would be to estimate the dynamic hedging activity in securities markets through a specific parsimonious and realistic model. In the paper, large traders hold sufficient liquid assets to meet liquidity needs of other traders, and so bear the risk of their imbalanced derivatives portfolio. As a result of their dynamic hedging strategies, through endogenous non-linear positive feedback effects, they buy and sell derivatives at prices shifted by an amount that depends on their net holding. We show how dynamic hedging may directly and endogenously give rise to empirically observed bid-offer spreads, of which we then analyse the two main underlying factors: inventory holding costs and informational asymmetry, thus requiring specific strategic trades in order to tackle portfolio insurance strategy paradox. More specifically we offer partial hedging strategies, such as quot;feedback volatilityquot; pricing and state-dependent threshold value strategies, illustrating a trade-off between maximizing expected gains and minimizing mis-hedging risk. Moreover we also discuss delicate positions' gamma hedging, which requires creating vega positions in order to profit from the quot;feedbackquot; volatility, in both long and short term. Finally we model the information asymmetry linked to the specific structure of the options portfolio and devise intertemporal arbitrage strategies for the large player.

Download or read book Managing Foreign Exchange Risk written by David F. DeRosa and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an expanded and enhanced edition of the popular Managing Foreign Exchange Risk which first appeared in 1990. Students of finance, traders, institutional investors and corporate treasurers commend the book for its even balance between theory and applications. Practitioners praise its clear explanation of currency derivatives theory. Students of finance appreciate that the book is infused with actual foreign exchange market conventions and real-world numerical examples. This second edition has been greatly expanded with materials on the mechanics of the foreign exchange and options markets. The sections on the international monetary system have been updated, especially with respect to the European monetary system. New sections have been added on exotic currency options, specifically on barriers, average rate, basket and quantos options. There are two new chapters, one on currency option applications and another on currency overlay management.

Download or read book Hedging a Portfolio with Futures written by Marco Scheidler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: A, Wright State University (Raj Soin College of Business), 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Abstract Undertaking business always involves taking risk. The future development of a company and their business is more uncertain the higher the risk that the company is facing. Risk management is a important factor in operating business. With the development of future markets entrepreneurs and investors obtained another risk management tool that made it possible to reduce risk. Futures are derivatives that can be used either for speculating or risk management. Especially in the area of financial futures, a rapid growth could be observed during the last few decades. Almost every month a new type of contract appears to meet the needs of a continuously growing corporate and institutional market. This paper considers future contracts as hedging application to reduce price risk. Futures are standardized contracts to buy or sell an asset in the future. There are various types of futures which differ in the type of the underlying asset. Futures are traded at organized exchanges. We consider the trading of future, their requirements, and market participants and their motivation. Different commercial users of future contracts hedge in different ways. A long hedge is used to reduce price risk of an anticipated purchase whereas a short hedge reduces the price risk of an asset that is already held. If there is no exact, the hedgers needs matching, contract available, the hedger should use a cross hedging strategy. With all these strategies the hedger takes, to the asset opposite, a position in the future market that is highly correlated with the change in price of the asset in the spot market. Losses in one market are offset by gains in the other market. For a successful hedge it is essential to choose an appropriate contract an

Download or read book Risk Management Speculation and Derivative Securities written by Geoffrey Poitras and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an integrated explanation of speculative trading and risk management from the practitioner's point of view, "Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities" is a standard text on financial risk management that departs from the perspective of an agent whose main concerns are pricing and hedging derivatives.

Download or read book Hedging Currency Exposures written by Brian Coyle and published by Global Professional Publishi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: � Fully updated version of text formerly used for training by BPP � Diagrammatic representation of deal structures, pricing, and modeling � Full glossary of terms � International perspective, examples in US$ � Clear logical explanation of processes, markets, and products This manual explains the techniques for identifying and covering exposure to adverse movements in foreign exchange rates. It provides practical examples of transaction, translation, and economic risk and shows how a hedging strategy can be arrived at. The hedging strategy will depend upon whether the attitude to risk is adverse, seeking, or neutral. This book examines these attitudes in turn and compares these hedging methods through worked examples. Also included is an analysis of accounting and tax implications. This expansive new range of risk management texts has undergone extensive re-writing to give each book in the series an international perspective. Each explains and analyses core aspects of risk assessment and management in a way invaluable to students and useful to practitioners. All of these titles adopt a practical and clear approach to their subject. All are fully updated versions of a series of books previously produced by training experts at BPP.

Download or read book Dynamic Hedging of Currency Risk in Investment Strategies written by Gaurav Chakravorty and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often, investors fully hedge their portfolios for currency risk. This can lead to significant drag in performance for currencies with negative carry. However, not hedging the foreign currency exposure can lead to significant drawdowns, especially for conservative investments. In this paper, we consider a conservative, global tactical asset allocation strategy implemented in US dollar denominated securities for a hypothetical, European investor and highlight the benefits of dynamic currency hedging over static hedging. Using a parsimonious model for hedge ratio based on multiple features of merit and an explicit check for maximum allowed under-hedging, we show that a cost aware, dynamic hedging strategy can reduce the hedging costs substantially while keeping the portfolio risk within mandate specifications.

Download or read book How Option Replicating Portfolio Insurance Works written by Thomas J. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hedging Market Exposures written by Oleg V. Bychuk and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identify and understand the risks facing your portfolio, how to quantify them, and the best tools to hedge them This book scrutinizes the various risks confronting a portfolio, equips the reader with the tools necessary to identify and understand these risks, and discusses the best ways to hedge them. The book does not require a specialized mathematical foundation, and so will appeal to both the generalist and specialist alike. For the generalist, who may not have a deep knowledge of mathematics, the book illustrates, through the copious use of examples, how to identify risks that can sometimes be hidden, and provides practical examples of quantifying and hedging exposures. For the specialist, the authors provide a detailed discussion of the mathematical foundations of risk management, and draw on their experience of hedging complex multi-asset class portfolios, providing practical advice and insights. Provides a clear description of the risks faced by managers with equity, fixed income, commodity, credit and foreign exchange exposures Elaborates methods of quantifying these risks Discusses the various tools available for hedging, and how to choose optimal hedging instruments Illuminates hidden risks such as counterparty, operational, human behavior and model risks, and expounds the importance and instability of model assumptions, such as market correlations, and their attendant dangers Explains in clear yet effective terms the language of quantitative finance and enables a non-quantitative investment professional to communicate effectively with professional risk managers, "quants", clients and others Providing thorough coverage of asset modeling, hedging principles, hedging instruments, and practical portfolio management, Hedging Market Exposures helps portfolio managers, bankers, transactors and finance and accounting executives understand the risks their business faces and the ways to quantify and control them.

Download or read book An Analysis of the Implications for Stock and Futures Price Volatility of Program Trading and Dynamic Hedging Strategies written by Sanford J. Grossman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Management of Foreign Exchange Risk and International Cash Management written by Abraham I. Brodt and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: