The paper addresses financial issues facing British Airways (BA) reporting on their use of financial derivatives. BA background is presented; their derivative programme is reviewed making references to the volatility of jet fuel prices and examining the risks of fuel prices management through derivative instruments.
The paper examines the role of hedge funds reviewing the strategies and styles of hedging, highlighting the shortcomings of the hedge fund investments, comparing hedge funds with mutual funds, and arguing their importance as banking tools.
The paper reports on the problem of foreign exchange exposure (FEE) faced by ElecdyneWales (EW), a subsidiary of the Japanese company Elecdyne. Types of FEE are described including translation, transaction and economic exposures; hedging techniques for each type of exposure are outlined highlighting their advantages and disadvantages.
This paper explores the returns on hedge funds. It analyses the hypothesis of excess returns on hedge funds. Within the paper a deep analysis of the hedge funds characteristics and literature is also provided. However, the data used in the regressions shows that there is no evidence of excess returns.
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