• Face Vas ‘forward price’
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Definitions of Terms
11.10 The Diversification Principle 11.11 Insuring a Diversified Portfolio
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11.1 Using Forward and Futures Contracts to Hedge Risks
• Futures contracts for commodities and financial products includes such clauses, by standardization, to protect against unknown credit risks, and we leave the details of this to the course “financial derivatives”
Definitions of Terms
• Forward Price
– Price (agreed to today) of an item to be purchased, and paid for, at a given future date
• Spot Price
– Price (agreed to today) of an item to be purchased (and paid for) immediately