• We are pleased to announce that the winner of our Feedback Prize Draw for the Winter 2024-25 session and winning £150 of gift vouchers is Zhao Liang Tay. Congratulations to Zhao Liang. If you fancy winning £150 worth of gift vouchers (from a major UK store) for the Summer 2025 exam sitting for just a few minutes of your time throughout the session, please see our website at https://www.acted.co.uk/further-info.html?pat=feedback#feedback-prize for more information on how you can make sure your name is included in the draw at the end of the session.
  • Please be advised that the SP1, SP5 and SP7 X1 deadline is the 14th July and not the 17th June as first stated. Please accept out apologies for any confusion caused.

April 2008 Q2

S

Scarecrow

Member
So we can use futures to move towards the target structure. As per the examiner's solution, we can sell futures for the assets we don't want any more and buy futures for those we do. However, given all these futures we now have I'm surprised the margin requirements don't pop up in part iii in the examiners' report.

Presumably we could end up out of the money on any or all of these? This could be particularly problematic given the size of the US equity future being sold?

Is this an issue we should be concerned about or am I barking up the wrong tree? I suppose it depends on the term to expiry and the volatility of the asset classes?

Cheers
 
Back
Top