Disaster hedging strategies abound as tail-risk fears rise
One simple, but expensive approach would be buying put options that offer a guarantee against any downside risk if stock prices slump below a set level. But the effectiveness of this strategy is damningly weak, the study's author, Ric Thomas, head of …
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Porsche Option Data May Not Have Swayed BNP, Court Told
BNP Paribas SA (BNP)'s 2009 decision to lend money to Porsche SE may not have been decisively influenced by all of the details of an option strategy the carmaker used in its Volkswagen AG takeover bid, a bank official testified. Juergen Schlangenotto …
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