Categorical Solutions Enter your e-mail address to subcribe to our newsletter. Viewpoints No. 4 looks at margin lending businesses and examines the risks they entail. Spread Markets, Asset Swaps and Credit Derivatives was the topic of Dr Sean Carmody's presentation at the Capital Management Sciences annual Fixed Income Forum in Phoenix, Arizona from October 24 - 27, 1999. Realising the Value of Real Options re-visits Real Option methodologies, focusing on the practical issues of structural hedging and value extraction.
Examples considered include currency hedging and electricity generation.
A Brief Introduction to Option Theory and Pricing looks at some basic issues regarding option theory from a trader's perspective. Electricity market deregulation and the challenges of price uncertainty are discussed in our market overview and Viewpoints No. 3. Viewpoints No. 2 looks at applying ideas from the financial markets to business strategy. A Bankers Trust Australia trading assets valuation report was completed for Deutsche Bank as part of the sale process in June 1999. Further work has taken place since the announcement that BTAL has been sold to Macquarie Bank.