Libor Scandal What is Libor and why does it matter? Libor stands for London Interbank Offered Rate. “It is considered to be an average interest rate which is estimated by some leading banks in London that they would be charged if borrowing from other banks.” Libor rate is considered to be the primary benchmark for short term interest rates around the world. It is the average cost of borrowing and is estimated on a daily basis by a group of banks as mentioned above. Libor rate gained momentum around
Premium Finance Hedge fund Bank
Amaranth Advisors LLC was created in 2000 as a multi-strategy hedge fund with approximately $600 million in capital. It sought to employ a diverse group of arbitrage trading strategies particularly featuring convertible bonds‚ mergers and utilities. In 2002‚ Amaranth added energy commodity trading to its slate of strategies with JP Morgan Chase clearing Amaranth’s commodity trades. A multi-strategy fund runs several different strategies in-house that contribute to the total performance of the fund
Premium Futures contract Commodity market Hedge
Advanced Security Analysis and Portfolio Management (EF4320) Spring 2014‚ by Dr. Dayong Huang Office: AC2 5110; Tel: 34429230; email: dayhuang@um.cityu.edu.hk; Email is preferred. Office hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:30 or Wednesday 10:00-11:30 or by appointment Teaching Assistant: Fred Chan‚ Yiufchan7@cityu.edu.hk‚ P7706 AC1. Please email Fred for general inquiries and hand in group homework assignments and trading records to Fred by due date. Aims and Objectives: This course is aimed to provide
Premium Futures contract Hedge Derivative
Business & Financial Affairs Research Article Dinh and Gong‚ J Bus & Fin Aff 2013‚ 2:1 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2167-0234.1000108 Open Access A Fair Value and Hedge Activities Doan Van Dinh1* and Guangming Gong2 1 2 College of Economics and Trade Management of Hunan University‚ China and Faculty of Finance and Banking of the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City‚ Vietnam Business school Hunan University in China Abstract This article‚ author consider the fair value of financial
Premium Balance sheet Financial statements Asset
Synopsis The Galleon Group was a privately owned hedge fund firm that provided services and information about investments. The group was founded in 1997‚ and attracted employee’s from Goldman Sach’s and Needham & Co. The company made its profit and other companies by choosing stocks carefully. Raj rajaratnam was an analyst for Needham for 11 years before leaving to start Galleon Group‚ he took several employee’s from his previous
Premium Conviction
Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics International Economics DERIVATIVE MARKETS FUTURES‚ FORWARDS‚ OPTIONS‚ SWAPS‚ CAPS AND FLOOR MARKETS Prepared by: Zagorskaya Ksenia 1. OVERVIEW OF DERIVATIVE MARKET Derivatives are financial instruments whose value is derived from the value of something else. They generally take the form of contracts under which the parties agree to payments between them based upon the value of an underlying asset or other data at a particular point in time.
Premium Futures contract Derivative Derivatives
Group Project #1 The main benefit of a hedge fund is that an investor can make higher returns with a hedge fund compared to the market returns by using leverage from taking a short position in certain stocks. It is possible for the return for hedge funds to be maintained consistent regardless of whether the market is rising or falling. On average‚ a hedge fund will typically carry lower risk than the market. However‚ given the long/short strategy of hedge funds‚ there still exists a risk for significant
Premium Hedge fund Short Stock market
Established in January 1999‚ Pine Street Capital (PSC) was a market-neutral hedge fund that specialized in the technology field‚ facing market risk and trying to decide whether and which way to use in order to hedge equity market risk. They choose technology sector because the partners of PSC felt that they have enough ability to evaluate this sector and specially be good at picking out-performing stock. Short-selling of NASDAQ and options hedging strategy are the two major hedging choices for PSC
Premium Hedge fund Short Investment
Discussed in this essay will be key factors that played in the development of the financial crisis of 2007‚ an overview of the causes and instruments used to the build up and possible preventions‚ followed by the influences from the government‚ if any that had an underlining effect toward the outcome. The Involvement Of New Bank Innovations Bank capital has a massive influence on the banking system effecting loan defaults‚ profits and lending‚ although the amount of outstanding lending has not
Premium Hedge fund Subprime mortgage crisis Debt
firm became an early innovator in Risk Arbitrage. Risk Arbitage‚ or sometimes called merger arbitrage‚ is an investment or trading strategy often associated with hedge funds. Hedge Funds playing a big deal in today’s market. In 1986‚ the firm formed Goldman Sachs Asset Management‚ which manages the majority of its mutual funds and hedge funds today. Also in 1986‚ the firm underwrote the IPO of Microsoft‚ advised General Electric on its acquisition of RCA and joined the London and Tokyo stock exchanges
Premium Goldman Sachs Hedge fund Stock exchange