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Debt management helps the money go further 11 Feb 2011 | 01:50 am
When someone can only just manage monthly debt payments, how do they cope when the cost of living shoots up? According to consultancy Capital Economics, the average household is spending far more on f...
The Role of Futures in Financial Markets 27 Nov 2010 | 02:49 am
Without financial futures, investors would have only one trading location to alter portfolio positions when they get new information that is expected to influence the value of assets—the cash market. ...
Risk and Return Characteristics of Futures Contracts 27 Oct 2010 | 01:48 am
When an investor takes a position in the market by buying a futures contract, the investor is said to be in a long position or to be long futures. If, instead, the investor’s opening position is the s...
Maturity 27 Sep 2010 | 01:47 am
The term to maturity of a bond is the number of years over which the issuer has promised to meet the conditions of the obligation. The maturity of a bond refers to the date that the debt will cease to...
Quasi-Equity Items 27 Aug 2010 | 01:47 am
Quasi-equity items are accounts that have been recorded as liabilities for accounting purposes, but should be treated as equity for purposes of determining how much capital the shareholders have inves...
Example of Short Selling 3 Sep 2009 | 02:18 am
We will use a simple example to show how a short sale may result in a profit irrespective of how the market moves. In this example we have $1m to invest. $200 000 is set aside as a buffer to meet any ...
Other Operating Assets, Net of Other Liabilities 27 Jul 2009 | 01:45 am
Any other assets or non-interest-bearing liabilities that are related to the operations of the business are also included in invested capital. In deciding whether an item is operating or non-operating...
OPTIMIZATION 6 Jul 2009 | 08:15 am
As with investors, corporations can use an “optimization” model to create an “efficient frontier” of hedging strategies to manage their currency risk. This measures the cost of the hedge against the d...
Hedging Economic Exposure 5 Jul 2009 | 08:15 am
Economic risk or exposure reflects the degree to which the present value of future cash flows may be affected by exchange rate moves. However, exchange rate moves are themselves related through PPP to...
Hedging the Balance Sheet 4 Jul 2009 | 08:14 am
While corporate Treasury is usually active in hedging transaction currency risk, it rarely considers translation risk — or hedging the balance sheet. This is largely because balance sheet risk is larg...
