...1. Q. What are some of the social, political, and economic forces that are influencing SIA’s decision to become a learning organization? * The situation in this case study demonstrates the need to consolidate employee knowledge into one system in an effort to improve overall company performance. SIA had acquired 30 separate businesses but they were still functioning like 30 separate companies. They each still had their own set of management and well-defined procedures and policies. As a result, most of the employees had developed their own areas of expertise. In the highly competitive insurance market, SIA needed to change this business philosophy if they were going to succeed. * In the early years of the new century, many companies use behavioral approach that means they use information and techniques from the social sciences to improve organizations health and improving internal relationships, and increasing problem for solving capabilities. In that time, social and political environment is changing. If SIA Corporation keep their own political policy, and keep its own hierarchy, characterized by strong top-down administration, SIA could not able to see or compete to other organizations as competition for achieving its goal. 2. Q. If you were a specialist from SIA, how and why would you respond to the proposed changes? What steps would you suggest Jerry take to increase employee utilization of the knowledge- sharing system In particular? How can he encourage...
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...Derivative triggered the financial terror Jiho Jang Warren Buffett already said the derivatives “financial weapons of mass destruction.” It’s not surprising. The derivative products have triggered the most destructive financial crisis since the stock market crash in our history. The causes of financial crisis in the late 2000s are still controversial. Some assert that it is just the financial system, and regulation failure and the other insist that resulted from the financial engineering failures. The explosive growth in derivative contracts occurred after 1999 when the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed, which allowed banks to operate as brokerage. Glass-Steagall, adopted in 1933, separated brokerages and banks to ensure banks would no longer be involved in risky transactions. And credit rating agencies were slow to downgrade the credit rating of the securities. Because the rating agencies did not disclose the downgrades in time, many investors were misled to think that securities were still safe to invest in, and it accelerated the market crisis uncontrollably. The initial intention of derivatives was to defend against risk and protect against the losses and downside. However, derivatives were the most important tools to trigger the financial market collapse. Those tools usually used to take on more risk to maximize profits and returns rather than to defend against risk and to protect against the losses. All kinds of financial products are transferred to the...
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...FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (A Future of Indian Financial Market) Dr. Ritu Kothiwal, Associate Professor, BIET, Hyderabad Contact No: 09246193330 Email Id: kothiwal55@gmail.com Mr. Ankur Goel, Research Scholar (Management), Mewar University, GZB. Contact No: 9917745990 Email Id: mrankurgoel@gmail.com. ABSTRACT Among all the innovations that have flooded the international financial markets, financial derivatives occupy the driver's seat. These specialized instruments facilitate the shuffling and redistribution of the risks that an investor faces. Thus aids in the process of diversifying ones portfolio. The volatility in the equity markets over the past years has resulted in greater use of equity derivatives. The volume of the exchange traded equity futures and options in most of the mature markets have seen a significant growth. It goes beyond that the local derivative in the emerging markets have witnessed widespread use of the derivative instrument for a variety of reasons. This continuous growth and development by the emerging market participants has resulted in capital inflows as well as helped the investors in risk protection through hedging. INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPT OF DERIVATIVES: Derivatives are financial contracts whose values are derived from the value of an underlying primary financial instrument, commodity or index, such as: interest rates, exchange rates, commodities, and equities. The International Monetary Fund defines derivatives as "financial...
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...3. Classification of Financial Instruments lassification of financial instruments and identification of their nature is one of the most important phases for compilation and presentation of monetary statistics. Like other classifications used in monetary statistics, it is also advisable here to follow international standards that would help to make statistics comparable across countries’ and ensure its unity. In carrying out classification, there will be a need to consider features of a country’s banking and financial system paying a due regard to their development prospects. C Financial instruments are financial contracts of different nature made between institutional units. These comprise the full range of financial claims and liabilities between institutional units, including contingent liabilities like guarantees, commitments, etc. Financial asset is defined as any contract from which a financial claim may derive for one party and a financial liability or participation in equity for another. Financial instrument can exist only between two institutional units. Where financial instruments are compounded, i.e. represent a set of several instruments, for compilation of statistics there will be a need to distinguish them into separate instruments so that each of them includes only a single pair of institutional units. Financial assets are contracts that do not contain contingency, i.e., irrespective of any conditions, generate financial claims having demonstrable value...
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...Chapter 11: Highlights 1. For a variety of reasons, corporations often acquire the securities (bonds, preferred stock, common stock) of other entities. For example, a business may invest (in the short term) some of its excess cash in income-yielding securities such as bonds or stocks. A business may also invest in securities intending to hold them for a longer period. 2. The accounting for investments in securities depends on the expected holding period and the purpose of the investment. 3. The expected holding period determines where investments in securities appear in the balance sheet. Securities that firms expect to sell within the next year appear as “Marketable Securities” in the Current Asset section of the balance sheet. Securities that firms expect to hold for more than one year from the date of the balance sheet appear in “Investments in Securities,” which firms include in a separate section of the balance sheet between Current Assets and Property, Plant and Equipment. When a company owns sufficient number of shares to control another company, it prepares consolidated financial statements. Consolidated financial statements combine, with some adjustments, the assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, and cash flows of both companies. 4. The accounting for the investment in securities depends on the purpose of the investment and the percentage of voting stock that one corporation owns of another. Three types of investments are: (1) minority, passive...
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...A PROJECT REPORT ON “Analysis of derivative segment (Future & Options Market) of capital market” SUBMITTED BY: RAVINDER SINGH NEGI NRS/011304 In the partial fulfillment of the requirement as per THE INSTITUTE OF COST AND WORKS ACCOUTANT OF INDIA Institute of Cost and Works accountant of India Delhi Office 3, Institutional Area Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 Phones: 011-24622156, 24521492 Fax: 011-43583642, 24622156, 24618645 DECLARATION I hereby declare that the Project report has been prepared by me during the year 2011. In partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of Institute of Cost and Works Accountant of India (NIRC). Ravinder Singh Negi Place:--New Delhi Date:--...
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...Derivative Market – A Case Study on NSE A Report Submitted as per the curriculum of the Master in Business Administration Under Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, Orissa. By L Rama kumari Roll No.: 200960712 Regd. No.: 0906202013 [pic] March 2011 Under the Guidance of Mr. Shom Prasad Das NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Palur Hills, Berhampur- 761008, Orissa, India DECLARATION I, L rama kumari, student of 2009-11 batch of NIST, Berhampur do here by declare that the report entitled “Derivative Market :A Case Study on NSE” that has been submitted by me as a partial fulfillment of the degree of MBA. This report is my own work and no part of this project has been ever submitted by me for any other purpose. I declare that the work has been carried out to the best of my knowledge and belief and according to my capacity and capability. Date: Place: L Rama kumari ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those individuals whose valuable contribution in a direct or indirect manner has gone into the making of this dissertation a tremendous learning experience for me. I take this privilege to express my heartfelt gratitude to our Hon. Director Prof. Sangram Mudali, Hon. Batch co-coordinator Mr.Chinmaya Sahu for encouraging doing this dissertation as a part of curriculum. I would like to express sincerely my deep...
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...(a) Introduction Financial derivatives are a financial instrument that value is depend upon or derived from price of underlying items such as commodity, indicator or index. Financial derivatives enable participants involved to trade specific financial risks for example, interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk, equity and commodity price risk and credit risk to other entities who are more willing or better suited to take or manage these risks (International Monetary Fund, n.d.). Even though there are some speculators are aim to earn profit by using the financial derivatives. The main categories of derivatives are forward and futures contracts, options and swaps. They are financial instruments that are mainly used to protect against and manage...
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...Introduction The Global Derivatives Market how it is work a- Fundamentals and Market Characteristics 2.1 Basics of derivatives Derivatives are totally different from securities. They are financial instruments that are mainly used to protect against and manage risks, and very often also serve arbitrage or investment purposes, providing various advantages compared to securities. Derivatives come in many varieties and can be differentiated by how they are traded, the underlying they refer to, and the product type. Definition of derivatives A derivative is a contract between a buyer and a seller entered into today regarding a transaction to be fulfilled at a future point in time, for example, the transfer of a certain amount of US dollars at a specified USD-EUR exchange rate at a future date. Over the life of the contract, the value of the derivative fluctuates with the price of the so-called “underlying” of the contract – in our example, the USD-EUR exchange rate. The life of a derivative contract, that is, the time between entering into the contract and the ultimate fulfi llment or termination of the contract, can be very long – in some cases more than ten years. Given the possible price fluctuations of the underlying and thus of the derivative contract itself, risk management is of particular importance.1) Derivatives must be distinguished from securities, where transactions are fulfilled within a few days (Exhibit 1). Some securities have derivative-like characteristics...
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...Project Report On “DERIVATIVES – THE BEST TOOL IN INDIAN MARKET TO GET THE OPTIMUM RETURNS” ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We take this opportunity to place on record our grateful thanks & sincere gratitude to those who gave us valuable advice & inputs for our studies. Our study could not have been completed if we had not have been completed if we had not been able to get the reference material from the company. Whenever & whatever we present today has been made possible by true efforts & kind support of our project guide Mr. Akhilesh Rathi, Head, SNR Securities & Finance, Indore. We express our sincere regards & feel paucity of word to express our utmost gratitude toward him for providing us the necessary resources, worthwhile suggestions & constant guidance. We also like to express our thanks towards other staff members of SNR Securities & Finance who inspired us to put in our best efforts for the completion of the project. PREFACE Financial system is the mirror reflection of an economy. The performance of any economy to a large extent is dependent on the performance of the Financial Institution. Financial system plays an important role by mobilizing saving and allocating them to the most profitable activities, and enables society to make more productive use of its scarce resources. The Financial system consist of many institution, instruments, and markets. Financial Institution range from moneylender to banks, pension funds, insurance...
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...Bothra Payel Jain Vinod Kothari & Company What are Financial markets Financial market is a market where financial instruments are exchanged or traded and helps in determining the prices of the assets that are traded in and is also called the price discovery process. 1. Organizations that facilitate the trade in financial products. For e.g. Stock exchanges (NYSE, Nasdaq) facilitate the trade in stocks, bonds and warrants. 2. Coming together of buyer and sellers at a common platform to trade financial products is termed as financial markets, i.e. stocks and shares are traded between buyers and sellers in a number of ways including: the use of stock exchanges; directly between buyers and sellers etc. Financial markets may be classified on the basis of • • • • types of claims – debt and equity markets maturity – money market and capital market trade – spot market and delivery market deals in financial claims – primary market and secondary market Indian Financial Market consists of the following markets: • • • Capital Market/ Securities Market o Primary capital market o Secondary capital market Money Market Debt Market Primary capital market- A market where new securities are bought and sold for the first time Types of issues in Primary market • • • • • Initial public offer (IPO) (in case of an unlisted company), Follow-on public offer (FPO), Rights offer such that securities are offered to existing shareholders, Preferential issue/...
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...STUDIES | Indian and Chinese Derivative Markets | A Comparative Analysis | Submitted to: Dr. Kumar BijoyBy: Anney Banderwal - 75112Larika Azad- 75130Ayushi Sharma- 751142/18/2014 | Contents Acknowledgement 3 Introduction 4 History and Evolution 4 Medieval Europe 5 A Major Step Forward 6 The New World 7 The Computer Age 8 India 8 China 10 Comparative Study 12 Exchanges and Instruments 12 Regulatory Aspects 14 India 14 China Regulatory Framework 19 Conclusion 26 Bibliography 27 Acknowledgement We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have helped us in completing this project report. First of all we would like to thank our teacher Dr. Kumar Bijoy for guiding us throughout this project. Then we would like to thank our parents for their immense support. In the end we would like to thank GOD almighty for giving us strength to complete this project. Introduction A derivative is a financial contract which derives its value from the performance of another entity such as an asset, index, or interest rate, called the "underlying". Derivatives are one of the three main categories of financial instruments, the other two being equities (i.e. stocks) and debt (i.e. bonds and mortgages). Derivatives include a variety of financial contracts, including futures, forwards, swaps, options, and variations of these such as caps, floors, collars, and credit default swaps. Most derivatives are traded over-the-counter (off-exchange)...
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...and buyers of various securities and advising institutional investors, government and companies on their investment strategies, on their financing needs (helping them to raise money) and their acquisitions. Two main areas: (1) Securities or capital markets divisions: trading in the equity, fixed income ,FX and commodities markets and advising and intermediating for institutional investors in those markets. (2) Corporate Finance and public finance (often referred to as investment banking) advising corporations and governments on their financing needs, including the underwriting of securities, on their merger and acquisition activities, or on their restructuring. Securities and capital markets divisions Clients are usually * Institutional investors, corporates or public entities, not private clients; * Mutual funds asset managers; * Pension Fund asset managers; * The insurance companies; * Private Banks; * Hedge Funds; * The treasury departments of large banks or large companies. Capital markets divisions * Equity division: equity research, equity sales, equity trading on cash, flow derivatives and structured products * FIRC or FICC (Fixed Income, currencies and derivatives): * Fixed income cash products, interest and credit derivatives, structured products; * FX: all currency transactions, from plain vanilla spot currency trades to sophisticated derivatives; * Commodities...
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...involving rigorous methods ensuring successful financial transactions aimed at financial stability and profitability. Selection of appropriate asset classes are only half the task, revision is the other crucial element needed to complete the process of excellent portfolio performance. Portfolio diversification assists investors’ exposure to risk in both domestic and international markets, and is a notably significant component regarding the composition of a portfolio. An investor must comprehend all investment vehicles because alternatives might become necessary after mediocre portfolio performance evaluations. In addition, derivative securities can further enhance portfolio performance; therefore, careful consideration of these assets must be taken seriously with regards to the composition and revision of an investment portfolio. Diversification of any portfolio, whether it is domestic or international, is extremely important because having assets with different characteristics allows investors the potential of a differentiated level of risk. Risk reduction through international diversification pertains to international market correlations increased after unexpected shocks. The implication of diversification benefits are reduced after unexpected travesties; therefore tests of stability of market correlations movements are based on before and after analyses of tragic events. It has been recommended to investors by professional financial experts to incorporate foreign equities into...
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...Investments in Marketable Equity and Debt Securities (SFAS #115, for fiscal years beginning after 12/5/1993) |Reporting Category |Classification Criteria | |Held to Maturity |Debt securities the investor has the positive intent and ability to hold to maturity | |Trading Securities | | | |Debt or equity securities | | |held for immediate resale | |Securities Available for Sale |Debt or equity securities not classified as either securities held to maturity or | |(“catch all”) |trading securities | Debt Securities: (creditor relationship) US Gov. bonds and notes, municipal securities, corp. bonds/notes/paper, convet. debt. Equity Securities: (ownership interest) common, preferred, or other capital stock, share rights, warrants, and call or put options. Reporting Categories For Investments |Types of Securities |Characteristics ...
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