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Betting on Gold Using a Futures-Based Gold ETF
Matos, PedroCase DARDEN-F-1690-EFinanceIn an environment of high macroeconomic uncertainty in the fall of 2012, Tom Michelson was looking at his next trading opportunity. Michelson wanted to build a position in gold with a trading horizon of around a year and was wondering how he should go about investing in gold. Gold futures-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) seemed like a good alternative, but he needed to understand better how gold futures worked. He was aware that futures-based E...Starting at €8.20
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2012 Fuel Hedging at JetBlue Airways
Matos, PedroCase DARDEN-F-1697-EFinanceIn early 2012, an equity analyst, was examining the jet fuel hedging strategy of JetBlue Airways for the coming year. Because airlines cross-hedged their jet fuel price risk using derivatives contracts on other oil products such as WTI and Brent crude oil, they were exposed to basis risk. In 2011, dislocations in the oil market led to a Brent-WTI premium wherein jet fuel started to move with Brent instead of WTI, as it traditionally did. Faced wi...Starting at €8.20
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Hedge Fund Due Diligence at Leman Alternative Asset Management Company
Matos, PedroCase DARDEN-F-1698-EFinanceIn early January 2008, a senior VP with LAAMCO, a fund of hedge funds known for alternative investments, was conducting due diligence on an equity market-neutral hedge fund. The hedge fund used an option strategy known as a collar (also known as a bull spread or split-strike conversion). The track record of the hedge fund had been stellar. The fund’s performance had not only beaten that of the S&P 500 Index over the same period but had done so wi...Starting at €8.20
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ProShares Hedge Replication ETF
Matos, Pedro; Demir, AnilCase DARDEN-F-1714-EFinanceAt the start of 2014, Joanne Hill was preparing to present at a conference focused on alternative investments for financial advisers. Exhibit 1 provides selected slides from the presentation. Hill wants to showcase how Hedge Replication ETF (HDG) provided an exposure to hedge funds at low fees, with full transparency and providing daily liquidity. But she had to overcome some resistance in the audience because most hedge fund strategies had under...Starting at €8.20
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Hedge Fund Due Diligence at Leman Alternative Asset Management Company - Teaching Note
Matos, PedroTeaching Note DARDEN-F-1698TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1698Starting at €0.00
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The Sanofi-Aventis Acquisition of Genzyme: Contingent Value Rights - Teaching Note
Matos, PedroTeaching Note DARDEN-F-1715TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1715Starting at €0.00
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Principal-Protected Equity-Linked Note - Teaching Note
Matos, PedroTeaching Note DARDEN-F-1752TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1752Starting at €0.00
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Storytelling That Moves People (Spanish version)
McKee, Robert; Fryer, BronwynArticle HBS-R0306BStrategyWhen executives need to persuade an audience, most try to build a case with facts, statistics, and some quotes from authorities. In other words, they resort to "companyspeak," the tools of rhetoric they have been trained to use. In this conversation with HBR, Robert McKee, the world's best-known screenwriting lecturer, argues that executives can engage people in a much deeper--and ultimately more convincing--way if they toss out their PowerPoint ...Starting at €8.20
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El caso HBR: La ola de despidos
Fryer, BronwynArticle HBS-R0903ALeadership and People ManagementAstrigo está en problemas. La cadena de mejoras para el hogar ha perdido su pronóstico de ganancias mal y las ventas están cayendo. Una reducción del 10% en el aspecto personal como la única opción. Despidos, sin embargo, podrían debilitar el compromiso de toda la vida del minorista a los empleados y la capacidad de ofrecer sus servicios al cliente famoso. Pero tocando efectivo reservado para adquisiciones estratégicas va en contra de los valores...Starting at €8.20
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El caso HBR: Llegó la hora de hacer una movida lateral
Fryer, BronwynArticle HBS-R0911BLeadership and People ManagementCuando una compañía de seguros del Reino Unido está plagada de un escándalo de fraude de valores que da como resultado la destitución del director general, el director de recursos humanos aprovecha la oportunidad para sacudir la cultura con un reemplazo negrita. Sin embargo, el presidente de la junta no se siente cómodo con esa estrategia, prefiriendo centrarse en los candidatos de un sello más tradicional. ¿Hasta dónde puede - y debe - el direct...Starting at €8.20