Some studies show that the performance of option strategies with stock portfolios could depend on other factors or on market conditions. Benninga and Blume (1985) analyzed the optimality of portfolio insurance in complete and incomplete markets, and found that buying put option may be optimal...

Derivatives, such as futures or options, are financial contracts which derive their value from a spot price, which is called the “underlying”. Derivative products like index futures, stock futures, index options and stock options have become important instruments of price discovery,...

All in Smoke Ltd (AIS Ltd), 100% export oriented unit (EOU) and in the manufacturing business of tobacco and cigarette, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of its listed parent firm. The parent firm, a sizable player in the same industry with a number of well-known brands in its portfolio, has recently...

Many countries in the world can be recognized as brand like: Germany for Automobiles, Japan for Technologies, South Africa for Racialism and US for global political dominance and so on. Now what to associate India with, is it a democratic alternative to China or a Fast growing free market...

Asset Bubbles have always been a debatable issue in the field of Economics and Finance. Till now we have witnessed quite a handful of them but we are yet to develop a concrete strategy to tackle the same. This paper provides an insight into the various mathematical know how's of an asset bubble...

Subprime crisis has ended history of many banks in the USA. As of now 22 banks have been closed because of Subprime crisis. It started with the Lehman Brothers, a 138 year old company filed bankrupt followed by Washington Mutual Funds. Like this 20 other small and medium size banks collapsed....

The recent financial crisis has highlighted the need for an integrated risk management system addressing all the strategic issues. Perhaps the biggest challenge lays in overcoming the human tendency of greed which resists us from abiding by the boundaries drawn by risk management models. With...

<DIV>Poverty is the dominant feature of the working lives portrayed in this book. But the misery of these men, women, and children in India has little to do with the underdevelopment of the past. The poverty here is caused by development and is concentrated mainly in what is referred to as the...</div>

Purpose – SWOT analysis is defective as a tool for guiding strategic planning because of its subjective, unsystematic, and non‐quantitative nature that lacks predictive power. This paper aims to present an alternative tool that overcomes these defects and is grounded in the resource‐based...