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hedge is the best option to alleviate a short-term risk
Example 1: The mutual fund manager’s portfolio amounting to 10 million U.S. U.S. closely resembling S & P 500 index. Portfolio Manager believes the economy is getting worse with the deterioration of corporate profits. Surrounding two or three weeks, reported quarterly earnings of corporations. Until the report exposes companies that have incomes of poor people, he is concerned the results of short-term common market correction. Without far-sightedness of honour, he assured the magnitude of earnings figures will produce. He now has the effect of market risk.Manager thinks about his options. The greatest danger is to do nothing, if the market falls, as expected, he risks dropping out all the latest developments. If he sells his portfolio early, it also risks being wrong and missing even in the rally. Sale also has considerable brokerage fees with additional fees to redeem later.
Then he understood that hedge is the best option to alleviate a short-term risk. It begins by calling its CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor), and after consultation room for selling short, the equivalent of $ 10 million S and P 500 index on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange “CME”. Now in its result, when the market falls, as expected, it will be outside impose any losses in the portfolio to profit from index hedge. In the event of a report to be better than expected, and his portfolio continues upward, he will continue to seek profit.
Two weeks later, fund manager calls his TCU and closes hedge ransom by an equivalent number of contracts at CME. Regardless of the market by the developments, investment fund manager has been protected for a period of short-term fluctuations. There was no risk to the portfolio.