The following points highlight the seven main types of risk on investment. The types are: 1. Interest Rate Risk / Market Risk 2. Credit Risk / Counter-Party Risk 3. Call Risk / Prepayment Risk 4. Put Risk 5. Yield Curve Risk 6. Inflation Risk 7. Sovereign Risk. 1. Interest Rate Risk / Market Risk: If we talk of fixed income [...]
The following points highlight the techniques used to manage foreign exchange risk. The techniques are: 1. Doing Nothing 2. Pre-Emptive Price Variation 3. Risk Sharing 4. Maintaining a Foreign Currency Bank Account 5. Transfer Pricing 6. International Forfaiting 7. Discounting of Bills of Exchange 8. Money Market Operations and a few others. Technique # 1. Doing Nothing: This method suggests [...]
The total risk of a company can be broken-down into business risk and financial risk. A company's business risk is determined by how it invest its funds i.e., the type of projects which it undertakes, while financial risk is determined by how it finances these investments. A company's competitive position, the industries in which it operates, the company's market share, [...]