......................................................5 INTRODUCTION TO DERIVATIVES ..................................................................................................5 1.1 DERIVATIVES DEFINED.......................................................................................................... 5 1.2 FACTORS DRIVING THE GROWTH OF DERIVATIVES................................................. 6 1.3 DERIVATIVE PRODUCTS ...............................................................
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24, No. 3, Winter 2003 Derivatives and Volatility on Indian Stock Markets Snehal Bandivadekar and Saurabh Ghosh * Derivative products like futures and options on Indian stock markets have become important instruments of price discovery, portfolio diversification and risk hedging in recent times. This paper studies the impact of introduction of index futures on spot market volatility on both S&P CNX Nifty and BSE Sensex using ARCH/GARCH technique. The empirical analysis points towards a decline
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Commodities plots 4. Plots 2: "What is the conversion factor of a US Treasury bond if securities coupon is 6 percent 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 6 2: "Which of the following are market instruments that are low risks, highly liquid, short term debt instruments issued by governments, financial institutions and corporations? 1. Derivatives 2. Financial Assets 3. Money Market Securities 4. None of the Above 2: "According to this theory, movement in financial markets
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Finance 202 Alex Low – Course Notes Chapter 10 – bond prices and yields 10.1 Bond Characteristics Bond: A security that obligates the issure to make specific payments to the holder over time. Face value/par value: The payment at which is made at maturity to the bond holder Coupon rate: A bonds annual interest payment per dollar of par value Zero coupon bonds: pays no coupons, sells at discount, provides only payment of par value at maturity. If a bond is purchased between
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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
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REFERENCE TO THE BSE MODEL) Group members : Nishma Mehta- 68 Navti Narang- 72 Jaikrishna Patel- 80 Miloni Shah- 100 Nidhi Shah- 102 Karishma Kotian- 120 TRADING Trading Rules The Derivatives Trading at BSE takes place through a fully automated screen-based trading platform called DTSS (Derivatives Trading and Settlement System).The DTSS is designed to allow trading on a real-time basis. In addition to generating trades by matching opposite orders, the DTSS also generates various reports
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INTRODUCTION The emergence of the market for derivative products, most notably forwards, futures and options, can be traced back to the willingness of risk-averse economic agents to guard themselves against uncertainties arising out of fluctuations in asset prices. By their very nature, the financial markets are marked by a very high degree of volatility. Through the use of derivative products, it is possible to partially or fully transfer price risks by locking-in asset prices. As instruments
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become more clearly articulated, investors will be in a better position to analyse and compare risk-adjusted performance and thus to drive stock valuation differences in due course. Recent US Federal Reserve guidance requiring Basel III pro-forma analysis to restore dividend and buyback programs is another sign that Basel III is here.1 Chris Matten PwC (Singapore) +65 6236 3878 chris.matten@sg.pwc.com Richard Barfield PwC
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Derivatives Trading and Its Impact on the Volatility of NSE, India GEL : G10, G14, G20, G19 ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of introduction of financial derivatives trading on the volatility of Indian stock market (an emerging stock market). It examines the theme that the introduction of derivatives in the stock market in India would reduce the volatility (risk) in the stock market. NSE Nifty 50 index has been used as a proxy of stock market return. ARCH/GARCH technique has been
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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
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