Download or read book Futures and forward contracts Main characteristics regulatory requirements written by Vivien Barth and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,0, University of Portsmouth, course: International Banking and Financial Instruments, language: English, abstract: This essay aims at explaining futures and forward contracts, describing their origins and purpose of usage as well as regulatory requirements. Moreover, it discusses advantages and disadvantages. Futures and forward contracts are financial instruments. More specifically, they are derivatives. Derivatives are financial contracts that derive their value from an underlying asset (Hirsa & Neftci, 2014). The literature distinguishes between physical commodities, such as corn or precious metals, and financial instruments, for example bonds, stocks or currencies, as underlying assets (Gottesman, 2016). Futures and forwards are agreements to buy or sell the underlying at a precise time in the future for a specified price, strike price. Their difference is that futures are traded on an exchange, whereas forwards are traded in the over-the-counter (OTC) market, meaning off-exchange trading directly between two parties (Hull, 2016). Consequently, futures are standardized, whereas forwards can be privately negotiated.

Download or read book Farmers Use of Cash Forward Contracts Futures Contracts and Commodity Options written by Allen B. Paul and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extract: Unstable farm prices can spur farmers' interest in the various forms of forward selling. Forward selling, which involves selling crops or livestock in advance of delivery, enables farmers to reduce the risk that the price they get for their output might not cover the costs of their inputs and to assure outlets for highly specialized or perishable products. Among the various forms of forward selling are cash forward contracts, futures contracts, and commodity options. This report describes different types of forward contracts, the factors a farmer should consider, and the major pitfalls involved.

Download or read book Handbook of Exchange Rates written by Jessica James and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Handbook of Exchange Rates “This book is remarkable. I expect it to become the anchor reference for people working in the foreign exchange field.” —Richard K. Lyons, Dean and Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley “It is quite easily the most wide ranging treaty of expertise on the forex market I have ever come across. I will be keeping a copy close to my fingertips.” —Jim O’Neill, Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management How should we evaluate the forecasting power of models? What are appropriate loss functions for major market participants? Is the exchange rate the only means of adjustment? Handbook of Exchange Rates answers these questions and many more, equipping readers with the relevant concepts and policies for working in today’s international economic climate. Featuring contributions written by leading specialists from the global financial arena, this handbook provides a collection of original ideas on foreign exchange (FX) rates in four succinct sections: • Overview introduces the history of the FX market and exchange rate regimes, discussing key instruments in the trading environment as well as macro and micro approaches to FX determination. • Exchange Rate Models and Methods focuses on forecasting exchange rates, featuring methodological contributions on the statistical methods for evaluating forecast performance, parity relationships, fair value models, and flow–based models. • FX Markets and Products outlines active currency management, currency hedging, hedge accounting; high frequency and algorithmic trading in FX; and FX strategy-based products. • FX Markets and Policy explores the current policies in place in global markets and presents a framework for analyzing financial crises. Throughout the book, topics are explored in-depth alongside their founding principles. Each chapter uses real-world examples from the financial industry and concludes with a summary that outlines key points and concepts. Handbook of Exchange Rates is an essential reference for fund managers and investors as well as practitioners and researchers working in finance, banking, business, and econometrics. The book also serves as a valuable supplement for courses on economics, business, and international finance at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels.

Download or read book Farmers Use of Forward Contracts and Futures Markets written by Allen B. Paul and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Strategic Use of Forward Contracts written by Jeffrey S. Lien and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Forward Contracts Pricing Default Risk and Optimal Use written by Ian Cooper and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Asset and Liability Management written by Jean Dermine and published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for a general business audiance, this is the first book on asset and liability management that emphasises both value creation and risk control.

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Download or read book Dynamic Asset Allocation with Forwards and Futures written by Abraham Lioui and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an advanced text on the theory of forward and futures markets which aims at providing readers with a comprehensive knowledge of how prices are established and evolve in time, what optimal strategies one can expect the participants to follow, whether they pertain to arbitrage, speculation or hedging, what characterizes such markets and what major theoretical and practical differences distinguish futures from forward contracts. It should be of interest to students (MBAs majoring in finance with quantitative skills and PhDs in finance and financial economics), academics (both theoreticians and empiricists), practitioners, and regulators. Standard textbooks dealing with forward and futures markets generally focus on the description of the contracts, institutional details, and the effective (as opposed to theoretically optimal) use of these instruments by practitioners. The theoretical analysis is often reduced to the (undoubtedly important) cash-and-carry relationship and the computation of the simple, static, minimum variance hedge ratio. This book proposes an alternative approach of these markets from the perspective of dynamic asset allocation and asset pricing theory within an inter-temporal framework that is in line with what has been done many years ago for options markets.

Download or read book Forward Contracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Optional Forward Contracts for Electric Power Markets written by Thomas Webster Gedra and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Futures Market cash Forward Contracts Versus Hedging written by Robert A. Cropp and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Uncertainty and the Use of Forward Contracts written by Menachem Sternberg and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Fixed Income Markets and Their Derivatives written by Suresh Sundaresan and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this well-respected textbook continues the tradition of providing clear and concise explanations for fixed income securities, pricing, and markets. Fixed Income Markets and Their Derivatives matches well with fixed income securities courses. The book's organization emphasizes institutions in the first part, analytics in the second, selected segments of fixed income markets in the third, and fixed income derivatives in the fourth. This enables instructors to customize the material to suit their course structure and the mathematical ability of their students. New material on Credit Default Swaps, Collateralized Debt Obligations, and an intergrated discussion of the Credit Crisis have been added Online Resources for instructors on password protected website provides worked out examples for each chapter A detailed description of all key financial terms is provided in a glossary at the back of the book