<p>Aim</p><p>The purpose with this study is to evaluate the selectationprocess and what happened with Swedish basketball players born 1986-89, that were selected to participate in Miki Herkel Cup (MHC), which is a camp for the 60 most talented players in Sweden.</p><p>Metod  </p><p>Together with the Swedish basketball federation, we decided to survey those who attended MHC as well as the players playing in the senior national team 2009.  The data collection has been made through a survey, with multiple choice questions in order to get as good as possible view of what factors that had influenced their development as basketball players. The survey was sent out to all players born 1986-89 that attended MHC and the senior national team of 2009. We used an electronic survey tool called questback which is an internetsurvey and sent out the survey to 320 players. To collect information we´ve searched within literature and databases.</p><p>Result  </p><p>18 % of the players answered the survey, which decreases the research validity. There have been big changes in the selection process. At the beginning it was unstructured and the coaches could only make subjective judgment which increased the risk of missing talented players. 2009 there was a manual created with guidelines and structure that made the tryouts executed the same way all over the country72 % are still playing basketball. 61 % has played a championship for the national team. 10 % play international basket in Europe but four of these played in college in USA. 54 % play or have played in the national league.</p><p>38 % of the players are from Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Stockholm has its own regional tryouts meanwhile the rest of Sweden is divided in to three large regions, North, South and Central.</p><p>Conclusions</p><p>After the changes 2009 there is more structure and the tryouts are performed the same way all over the country. The results show that coaches responsible for the tryouts have been selecting the right players so far as 72 % became players at senior level and 50 % of them play in the national league.</p> / <p>Syfte och frågeställningar</p><p>Syftet med denna uppsats är att utvärdera urvalsprocessen samt vad som händer med spelare som varit uttagna till Miki Herkel Cup (MHC) från årskullarna födda 86-89 och aktuella seniorspelare.</p><p>Metod</p><p>För att få fram rätt deltagare till enkäterna så har listor erhållits från förbundet men det var flera deltagarlistor och kontaktinformation som förbundet saknades så kontakt togs med ansvariga regiontränare, klubbar samt sökning efter varje spelare i en databas och internetsökning. En telefonintervju genomfördes med tävlingsansvarig på Svensk basket rörande bakgrunden till MHC.</p><p>För att kunna få svar på frågeställningarna utarbetades en enkät och med hjälp av förbundet gjordes enkäten till en questback som är ett internetbaserat frågeformulär/enkät. Enkäten mailades ut till 320 spelare.<strong></strong></p><p>Resultat</p><p>Endast 18 % besvarade enkäten vilket visar på en väldigt låg validitet i svaren.</p><p>Det har skett stora förändringar i urvalsprocessen genom åren. Till en början var det väldigt ostrukturerat och det var ren subjektiv bedömning där man riskerade att missa flera talanger, men 2009 skapades en regionmanual för att skapa riktlinjer och struktur runt om i hela landet.</p><p>72 % spelar fortfarande basket.  61 % av dessa har spelat ett mästerskap som visar på ett bra urval av spelare. 10 % har eller spelar internationellt men för fyra av dessa gällde det college i USA. 54 % av spelarna har eller spelar i dagsläget i högsta ligan i Sverige.</p><p>38 % av spelarna kommer från Stockholm som har sin egen regions uttagning medans resten av Sverige delas upp i tre stora regioner, Nord, Syd och Mellan.</p><p>Slutsats</p><p>Efter ändringarna inför uttagningen år 2009 ser det ut vara mer strukturerat och det bör utveckla starkare landslag om urvalet är det rätta. Om man tyder resultaten så visar de att urvalet varit ganska goda då 72 % fortfarande spelar och 50 % är ligaspelare.</p>

Background: In an increasingly globalized environment, corporations perform transactions across borders on a day-to-day basis. As multinational corporations expand their businesses the number of currencies in their operations increases. The consequence of operating with several currencies is the risk associated with currency fluctuations. Sandvik AB is a worldwide corporation where activities are conducted through representation in more than 130 countries. Currency exposures are controlled through risk management where financial derivatives are applied to protect the corporation from potential losses caused by fluctuations. Sandvik AB recently implemented a hedging strategy entitled Layered Basket Option hedging. The strategy is a combination of a layered- and a basket option approach to maximize the effect of the hedge. There is a limited amount of previous research regarding Layered Basket Option hedging and Sandvik AB is the first corporation to actively practice this strategy. Purpose: The purpose is to investigate and provide information about how currency risk most effectively is hedged for the multinational corporation Sandvik AB. Furthermore, we want to evaluate if Sandvik’s recently implemented hedging strategy, Layered Basket Option hedging, is the best-suited strategy for them and if there are any improvements to be made. This thesis will further investigate the importance of currency hedging for multinational corporations, which are dependent on reporting to their stakeholders. Hopefully, this thesis will also facilitate the communication of Sandvik’s currency strategies throughout the organization and make it more comprehensible. Method: Exchange rates on daily basis for the period 2002-2012 were collected from Bank of Canada and Reuters database. The collected data was thereafter used as a basis to perform calculations to determine if Layered Basket Option hedging is the optimal solution for Sandvik AB. Conclusion: The results of this study highlight the benefits from applying a Layered Basket Option hedging strategy and the strategy succeeds to reduce the volatility caused by currency fluctuation. The results indicate that the combination of a layered- and a basket option approach successfully creates a suitable strategy for Sandvik AB. Furthermore, this thesis has recognized that there exists room for improvement by actively allocating currencies according to their weights and correlations to fully exploit the effects from the strategy.

Aim The purpose with this study is to evaluate the selectationprocess and what happened with Swedish basketball players born 1986-89, that were selected to participate in Miki Herkel Cup (MHC), which is a camp for the 60 most talented players in Sweden. Metod   Together with the Swedish basketball federation, we decided to survey those who attended MHC as well as the players playing in the senior national team 2009.  The data collection has been made through a survey, with multiple choice questions in order to get as good as possible view of what factors that had influenced their development as basketball players. The survey was sent out to all players born 1986-89 that attended MHC and the senior national team of 2009. We used an electronic survey tool called questback which is an internetsurvey and sent out the survey to 320 players. To collect information we´ve searched within literature and databases. Result   18 % of the players answered the survey, which decreases the research validity. There have been big changes in the selection process. At the beginning it was unstructured and the coaches could only make subjective judgment which increased the risk of missing talented players. 2009 there was a manual created with guidelines and structure that made the tryouts executed the same way all over the country72 % are still playing basketball. 61 % has played a championship for the national team. 10 % play international basket in Europe but four of these played in college in USA. 54 % play or have played in the national league. 38 % of the players are from Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Stockholm has its own regional tryouts meanwhile the rest of Sweden is divided in to three large regions, North, South and Central. Conclusions After the changes 2009 there is more structure and the tryouts are performed the same way all over the country. The results show that coaches responsible for the tryouts have been selecting the right players so far as 72 % became players at senior level and 50 % of them play in the national league. / Syfte och frågeställningar Syftet med denna uppsats är att utvärdera urvalsprocessen samt vad som händer med spelare som varit uttagna till Miki Herkel Cup (MHC) från årskullarna födda 86-89 och aktuella seniorspelare. Metod För att få fram rätt deltagare till enkäterna så har listor erhållits från förbundet men det var flera deltagarlistor och kontaktinformation som förbundet saknades så kontakt togs med ansvariga regiontränare, klubbar samt sökning efter varje spelare i en databas och internetsökning. En telefonintervju genomfördes med tävlingsansvarig på Svensk basket rörande bakgrunden till MHC. För att kunna få svar på frågeställningarna utarbetades en enkät och med hjälp av förbundet gjordes enkäten till en questback som är ett internetbaserat frågeformulär/enkät. Enkäten mailades ut till 320 spelare. Resultat Endast 18 % besvarade enkäten vilket visar på en väldigt låg validitet i svaren. Det har skett stora förändringar i urvalsprocessen genom åren. Till en början var det väldigt ostrukturerat och det var ren subjektiv bedömning där man riskerade att missa flera talanger, men 2009 skapades en regionmanual för att skapa riktlinjer och struktur runt om i hela landet. 72 % spelar fortfarande basket.  61 % av dessa har spelat ett mästerskap som visar på ett bra urval av spelare. 10 % har eller spelar internationellt men för fyra av dessa gällde det college i USA. 54 % av spelarna har eller spelar i dagsläget i högsta ligan i Sverige. 38 % av spelarna kommer från Stockholm som har sin egen regions uttagning medans resten av Sverige delas upp i tre stora regioner, Nord, Syd och Mellan. Slutsats Efter ändringarna inför uttagningen år 2009 ser det ut vara mer strukturerat och det bör utveckla starkare landslag om urvalet är det rätta. Om man tyder resultaten så visar de att urvalet varit ganska goda då 72 % fortfarande spelar och 50 % är ligaspelare.

Cholesky Decomposition is usually used to deal with the correlation problem among a financial product's underlying assets. However, Cholesky Decomposition inherently suffers from the requirement that all eigenvalues must be positive. Therefore, Cholesky Decomposition can't work very well when the number of the underlying assets is high. The report takes a diffrent approach called spectral Decomposition in attempt to solve the problem. But it turns out that although Spectral Decomposition can meet the requirement of all-positive eigenvalue, the decomposision error will be larger as the number of underlying asset getting larger. Thus, although Spectral Decomposition does offer some help, it works better when the number of underlying assets is not very large.

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