You are a U.S. investor and currently have a portfolio worth 100 million in German bonds. The

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You are a U.S. investor and currently have a portfolio worth €100 million in German bonds. The current spot exchange rate is €2/$. The current one-year market interest rates are 6 percent in the euro area and 10 percent in the United States. One-year currency options are quoted with a strike price of S0.50/€; a call on euros is quoted .it $0.01 per euro, and a put on euros is quoted at $0,012 per euro. You are worried that inflation in euro area will cause a drop in the euro. You consider using forward contracts or options to hedge the currency risk.
a. What is the one-year forward exchange rate S: €?
b. Calculate the dollar value of your portfolio, assuming that its euro value stays at €100 million; use $:€ spot exchange rates equal in one year to 1.6, 1.8, 2, 2.2, and 2.4. First consider a currency forward hedge, then currency option insurance.
c. What could make your forward hedge imperfect? Strike Price
In finance, the strike price of an option is the fixed price at which the owner of the option can buy, or sell, the underlying security or commodity.
Exchange Rate
The value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another. Exchange Rate means on any day, for purposes of determining the Dollar Equivalent of any currency other than Dollars, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into Dollars...
Portfolio
A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Global Investments

ISBN: 978-0321527707

6th edition

Authors: Bruno Solnik, Dennis McLeavey

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