This master‘s final paper analyzes and systemizes theoretical and practical bank risk measurement and management analysis conducted by various Lithuanian and foreign authors; presents risk conception in banking sector. Comprehensively analyzes and evaluates bank’s market risk (interest rate, foreign currency and investment risk). The third part suggests market risk evaluation and management improvement opportunities in stock company Šiaulių bankas.

Agriculture is of inestimable value to South Africa because it is a major source of job creation and plays a key role in earning foreign exchange. The most significant contribution of agriculture, and in particular maize, is its ability to provide food for the nation. For a number of decades government legislation determined prices, and as such the trade of grains on the futures exchange requires market participants to adapt to a volatile environment. The research focuses on the ability of market participants to effectively mitigate price volatility on the futures exchange through the use of derivative instruments, and the possibility of developing risk management strategies that will outperform the return offered by the market. The study shows that market participants are unable to use derivative instruments in such a way that price volatility is minimised. The findings of the study also indicate that the development of derivative risk management strategies could result in better returns than those offered by the market, mainly by exploiting trends on the futures market. / Financial Accounting / M. Comm. (Business Management)

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Corn production is scattered geographically over various continents, but most of it is grown in the United States. As such, the world price of corn futures contracts is largely dominated by North American corn prices as traded on the Chicago Board of Trade. In recent years, this market has been characterised by an increase in price volatility and magnitude of price movement as a result of decreasing stock levels. The development and implementation of an effective and successful derivative price risk management strategy based on the Chicago Board of Trade corn futures contract will therefore be of inestimable value to market stakeholders worldwide. The research focused on the efficient market hypothesis and the possibility of contesting this phenomenon through an application of a derivative price risk management methodology. The methodology is based on a combination of an analysis of market trends and technical oscillators with the objective of generating returns superior to that of a market benchmark. The study found that market participants are currently unable to exploit price movement in a manner which results in returns that contest the notion of efficient markets. The methodology proposed, however, does allow the user to consistently achieve returns superior to that of a predetermined market benchmark. The benchmark price for the purposes of this study was the average price offered by the market over the contract lifetime, and such, the efficient market hypothesis was successfully contested. / Business Management / D. Com. (Business Management)

Text in Afrikkans / Summaries in English and Afrikaans / The capital-adequacy problem is essentially concerned with the amount of capital that a bank should maintain in order to conduct its operations in a prudent manner. Because one of the primary functions of bank capital is to act as a risk cushion for the protection of a bank's depositors, a bank's capital funds are often regarded as comprising an insurance element. The capital-adequacy concept, therefore, may be seen as part of the overall banking risk, or prudential management. An attempt has been made to indicate that bank supervisors should use not only capital ratios when analysing a bank's capital position. Other factors, such as asset quality and other financial risks, should also be taken in consideration. Financial ratio analysis, however, provides bank supervisors with useful information. When combining ratio analysis with non-quantifiable factors, bank supervisors may indeed achieve their goal of determining capital adequacy. / Die kapitaaltoereikendheidsprobleem is hoofsaaklik gebaseer op die hoeveelheid kapitaal waaroor 'n bankinstelling moet beskik, ten einde die bankbesigheid op 'n verstandige wyse te bedryf. Een van die primere funksies van kapitaal is om te dien as verliesabsorberingsbuffer ter beskerming van 'n bankinstelling se deposante, en daarom word toereikende kapitaal dikwels geag om 'n soort versekeringselement te bevat. Die konsep van kapitaaltoereikendheid kan dus beskou word as deel van die totale risikobestuurskonsep. Daar is tydens die studie gepoog om aan te dui dat banktoesighouers nie net kapitaalverhoudings behoort te gebruik om 'n bankinstelling se kapitaalposisie te ontleed nie. Ander faktore, soos batekwaliteit en antler finansiele risiko's, moet ook in ag geneem word. Finansiele verhoudingsgetalontledings voorsien banktoesighouers van waardevolle inligting. Indien verhoudingsgetalle egter met nie-gekwantifiseerde inligting gekombineer sou word, kan banktoesighouers hul doel om kapitaaltoereikendheid te bepaal, bereik. / M.Com. (Business Management)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:30:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiz Guilherme Azevedo Mauad.pdf: 2910298 bytes, checksum: 249a2bed427bd7a8dc926ab2d3586459 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-07-01 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Purchasing high quality and low price products has become a consumer fixation, mainly where the lowest price is demanded and in reverses auctions, whether electronic or not. The importance of establishing retail prices of projects, products and services has been increasing. Therefore, it has become a strategic and challenging task for managers while also being one of their great fears. In a global and highly competitive market, price setting may influence consumers buying choices: a product s value and quality, which meet their expectations, will sell a product or project. On the other hand, a price inaccurately fixed may turn offers down and lead a company into unwished results. Research shows that markup pricing method is still the most common technique used by companies. However, fixing a price based on this method and taking into account a deterministic cost value may lead a company into making the wrong decisions and taking unnecessary risks. Prices undergo the influence of several costs and market related factors, which, somehow, have some kind of uncertainty risk. Nevertheless, when one is dealing with costs this uncertainty becomes more latent. Therefore, they must be taken into consideration in the company s pricing process. The present research study, based on RiskMetrics concepts such as VaR and, mainly, CorporateMetrics, proposes and applies a pricing model named Cost at Risk based Price (PCeR) in a high technology venture. The model approaches costs incurred stochastically instead of deterministically and takes into account the risks inherent to their composing parameters. The model has proven to be a useful and flexible tool, which offers to managers greater understanding when fixing retail prices. That understanding may assist organizations to reach a market, overcome their competitors and grow profitably. / Adquirir produtos com qualidade e preços baixos tornou-se uma obsessão para o consumidor,principalmente, nas concorrências em que o menor preço é exigido e nos leilões reversos,realizados por meio eletrônico ou não. A fixação de preços de venda para projetos, produtos e/ou serviços adquire, a cada dia, maior importância. Torna-se uma atividade estratégica e um dos grandes desafios para os gestores e, porque não dizer, um dos seus grandes temores. Em um mercado global e altamente competitivo, o dimensionamento de preço pode influir na decisão de compra do consumidor: o estabelecimento de valor e qualidade que atendam à sua expectativa favorece a venda do produto, ou projeto, já um preço mal dimensionado pode fazê-lo refugar ofertas e levar a empresa a resultados indesejados. Estudos mostram que a precificação custo acrescido , ainda hoje, é a técnica mais utilizada pelas empresas, para cumprir essa função. Porém, definir o preço, com base neste modelo e considerar apenas um valor de custo determinístico, poderá levar a empresa a decisões errôneas e riscos desnecessários. Sabe-se que o preço sofre influência de uma série de fatores ligados ao custo e ao mercado que, de certa forma, contêm certo grau de incerteza, porém é nos custos que estas incertezas tornam-se mais latentes. Então, não se pode deixar de considerá-las no processo de precificação da empresa. Este trabalho, baseado nos conceitos propostos pelo RiskMetrics, como o VaR e, principalmente, nas CorporateMetrics, propõe e aplica, em uma empresa de alta tecnologia, um modelo de precificação denominado Preço baseado no Custo em Risco (PCeR), que aborda os custos incorridos não mais de maneira determinística, mas de forma estocástica, levando em consideração os riscos inerentes aos parâmetros que o compõem. O modelo mostrou ser uma ferramenta útil e flexível aos gestores, oferecendo uma maior visibilidade na definição do preço de venda, visibilidade essa que pode levar a organização a conquistar mercado, superar a concorrência e crescer com lucratividade.

Le secteur automobile est de plus en plus dépendant aux matières plastiques dont le niveau et la volatilité des prix ont fortement augmenté au cours des dix dernières années, sous l’effet supposé des variations du prix du pétrole qui est le principal input nécessaire à leur fabrication. La thèse vise à fournir des outils économétriques permettant d’analyser et gérer le risque de variations des prix des principales matières plastiques utilisées dans l’industrie automobile. À l’aide des méthodologies de cointégration, nous montrons que les relations d’équilibre de long terme et les dynamiques de court terme mettent en évidence un mécanisme de transmission des variations des coûts de production sur le prix des plastiques situés en aval du processus productif. L’existence de relations de cointégration significatives entre les prix pétrochimiques et pétroliers justifie l’élaboration de stratégies de couverture contre les variations des coûts de production et l’estimation de modèles à correction d’erreur qui permettent d’affiner les prévisions des prix. / The automotive industry is increasingly dependent on plastic materials whose price level and volatility have risen sharply over the past decade due to the assumed effect of fluctuations in crude oil prices, which is the key feedstock in the production of final products such as plastics. This thesis aims to provide econometric tools to analyze, understand, and manage the risk of price volatility of major plastics materials consumed in the automotive industry. Using the cointegration methodology, we show that long-term equilibrium relationship and short-term dynamics reveal the transmission mechanism of input prices changes from the upstream market to the prices of plastics materials on the downstream market. The significant cointegration relationships between petrochemical and crude oil prices justify the development of hedging strategies against inputs prices fluctuation and the estimation of error correction models that should produce better prices forecast.

二十一世紀初的經濟不景氣橫掃了全球的DRAM製造產業，讓全世界的DRAM製造產商大賠了120億美金，國內廠商受傷尤其嚴重，甚至發生公司債之債務不履行事件，國內廠商岌岌可危。本論文主要係以案例探討之方式，研究國內DRAM製造廠商之經營模式、產業特性與風險管理問題，尤其在面對國際間產業劇烈之競爭下，國內之DRAM製造商的經營條件比國際大廠更為艱困，例如：金融環境、政府支援程度、生產規模、技術自主問題等與國外廠商皆有一段差距，因此在經營上所面對之風險與其他國家製造商相較，其實更為險峻。 / 本文以案例公司發生公司債之債務不履行事件為切入點，深入地了解一家在本國企業中屬於中大型企業之DRAM製造公司，為何會有債務不履行之情況發生？其近因似為案例公司在財務上過度倚賴公司債為籌資工具，且公司債之到期或轉換公司債之履約期間過於密集，以致產生流動性問題，然而其遠因乃在於DRAM產品價格快速的滑落，廠商缺乏適當的風險管理工具及機制以應付DRAM之價格風險。DRAM產品為成本競爭導向之標準產品，成本競爭來自於生產良率、製程微縮與新建更大尺寸廠房，當每家廠商都競逐於經濟規模以降低成本時產業會變得不穩定而暴起暴落，在產品價格處於高點時，所有廠商將產能利用率(稼動率)推到最高，此時因產能稼動率高，因此平均每單位晶片之生產成本較低，所以廠商獲利頗豐，並可輕易自資本市場取得資金擴充產能；等到市場供過於求，產品價格下跌處於低點時，廠商只好減產以降低損失，在其他條件不變下，此時因產能稼動率低，因此平均每單位晶片之生產成本反而較產品價格好時還要高，產品價格下跌所帶來的巨額損失，對廠商的虧損有乘數效果，此時廠商在資本市場或銀行等間接金融市場都不容易籌措到資金，本文以案例公司所面對之風險管理問題，提供幾個避險之建議，其中包括金融業、政府等應該能夠扮演更積極的角色，創造共贏共榮的局面，並避免類似之事件再發生，此為本文最大之貢獻。

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Denna uppsats undersöker hur effektivt det vore att hedga svenska bostadspriser under tidsperioden 2005–2017 med hjälp av ett bostadsprisindex. Uppsatsen undersöker ickeperiodiserade och periodiserade hedgar genom tre olika hedgingstrategier i form av statisk, dynamisk och optimal hedge. Hedge ratios skattas via tre olika hedgingmetoder bestående av OLS, ECM och en naiv hedge. Genom att både använda ett nationellt och regionalt hedginginstrument analyseras skillnaden i hedgingeffektivitet i respektive region som hedgas. Hedgingeffektiviteterna bedöms i termer av reducerad varians vilket har fastställts genom justerad förklaringsgrad samt en alternativ beräkningsmetod för att presentera rättvisande resultat. Med avstamp i resultatet av hedgingeffektivitet och med hjälp av tidigare litteratur genomförs även en analys av förutsättningar för en bostadsprisderivatmarknad i Sverige. Genom studiens uppbyggda analysmodell påvisar undersökningen att ett nationellt hedginginstrument överlag är mer effektivt än ett regionalt hedginginstrument för att hedga bostadsprisrisken i Sverige för den undersökta tidsperioden. Våra resultat pekar på att svenska bostäder inhyser en stor grad av idiosynkratisk risk där den ohedgbara risken är beroende utav vilket hedginginstrument som används. Sammanfattningsvis finner vi det svårt att hedga all form av bostadsprisrisk på den svenska bostadsmarknaden. I dagsläget finns det ingen möjlighet för svenska hushåll att riskjustera sin exponering mot bostadsprisrisken. Ur ett transaktionskostnadsperspektiv anser vi att finansiell bildning kan vara en av de stora anledningarna till att en marknad för att riskjustera bostadsprisrisken inte finns. Dels saknas det kunskap för att applicera en hedge men bostadsägarna kan sakna vetskap om sitt egna behov av att skydda sig mot bostadsprisrisken.