This chapter discusses the concepts related to using futures to hedge a variety of business risks. Those business risks include risks natural and unnatural hedgers might face in the market place. The chapter provides some simple examples of hedging in various markets to give the reader a sense...

We investigate the relationship between Value, Growth and two forms of Momentum across a wide range of developed and emerging international equity markets using MSCI total return ‘smart beta' indices. As would be anticipated, Value generally beats Growth. A distinction is then made between...

This paper proposes a risk measure, based on first-passage probability, which reflects intra-horizon risk in jump models with finite or infinite jump activity. Our empirical investigation shows, first, that the proposed risk measure consistently exceeds the benchmark Value-at-Risk (VaR). Second,...

Options are financial derivatives which are used as risk management tools for hedging the portfolios. The options traders can play safely in the volatile markets with the help of knowledge of the Greeks associated with the options. This study is focused at providing the knowledge of the Greeks...

Retail Assets in Banks has grown due to the trend among banks to grow at a much faster space. Unlike the commercial exposures banks manage retail assets on pooled basis. In this paper, we discuss the methodology of creating pools of revolving retail assets. We compare the capital charges...

Increasingly, consultants for fund management firms care about the riskiness of fund managers’ investment strategies. Fund managers themselves must care about the riskiness of their investment strategies vis-a-vis the client’s specified benchmark

In this paper, the time-frequency dependency of political risk as well as economic and financial risks is explored in Venezuela using quarterly data from 1984Q1 to 2018Q4. The present study uses the wavelet coherence technique, which allows the investigation of both the long and short-term...

In this paper we estimated pair copula constructions (PCC) for three sets of markets: developed, Latin emerging and Asia-Pacific emerging. To that, we used daily prices from January 2003 to November 2011, totaling 1872 observations. After, we estimated the lower and upper tail dependence for...