Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management.ppt
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This document provides an introduction to speculative markets, derivatives, and financial engineering. It defines speculative markets as markets that deal in derivative securities to manage financial risk. Derivatives derive their value from underlying assets and are created through financial engineering. Financial engineering is designing innovative financial instruments and processes to provide customized solutions to firms' financial risk management problems, such as interest rate and currency risk. It involves creating new securities and organizations through applying advances in related technologies. Financial innovation meets demands for risk sharing and transfer and lowers transaction costs.
Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management.ppt
- 1. Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management Speculative Markets
- 2. Outline Meaning of Speculative Markets Meaning of Derivatives Meaning of Financial Engineering Types of Derivatives Role of Derivatives Sequence of this course
- 3. Speculative Markets A market that deals in derivative securities such as options, futures, swaps, and variants of these products Why speculative markets? To deal with financial risk management What are derivatives? A financial instrument that derives its value from the underlying asset on which it is written
- 4. Derivatives are the result of financial engineering What is financial engineering?
- 5. Meaning of Financial Engineering The design, development, and the implementation of innovative financial instruments and processes, and the formulation of creative solutions to problems in finance Objective is to provide custom-designed solutions to problems that firms face in the area of financial risk management. Firms’ exposure to financial risk management include interest rate risk, currency risk, commodity price risk, security price risk, and so on. Financial engineering is the means to implement financial innovation
- 6. What is financial innovation? Include not only the creation of new types of securities, but also the development of and evolution of new financial organizations Financial engineering embodies many of the skills, techniques, and processes that produce both new securities and new financial organizations. It is the application of advances in related technologies that permit the diagnosis, analysis, design, production, pricing, and customization of solutions to problems in finance
- 7. Why Financial Innovation? Revolutionary changes in the international financial system Round the clock trading Tokyo-London-New York Financial futures, swaps, mortgage-backed securities, exchange traded options Junk bonds Shelf registration, electronic funds transfer and security trading, NOW accounts, asset-based financing, LBO, etc. Proliferation of organized trading markets in both equity and fixed-income derivative securities during the past two decades is unprecedented
- 8. What does financial innovation do for the markets and participants? Meet demands for “completing market” with expanded for risk-sharing risk-pooling, hedging, and intertemporal or spatial transfer of resources that are not already available Lower transaction costs/increase liquidity Reduce agency costs caused by asymmetric information Price Discovery Greater Market Efficiency
- 9. Course Sequence Option Markets Structure Principles Pricing Strategies—basic and advanced Futures Markets Structure Principles Pricing Strategies Swaps and Other Exotic Instruments