Exam 4: Financial Management: Derivative Instruments and Information Sources

Equity futures contracts,warrant contracts and option contracts are all forms of non-standardised forms of derivatives.

Which type of contract is highly standardised?

An intra-industry information transfer occurs:

In which year did option trading begin in Australia?

Why is it difficult to compute the unrealised return on a futures contract?

The second party to a 'swap' is known as a:

How could investors obtain private information?

Which of the following indices is designed to capture price movements in the general economy?

Repurchase agreements are traded:

Which of the following securities are not traded on ASX 24?

Security-specific information does not include:

One of the objectives of the Corporations Act is:

Which information source specialises in emerging market data?

In a 'plain vanilla' swap,the variable reference rate is generally the:

Non-exchange-traded derivatives are said to be traded:

Which information is specified for those highly standardised contracts?

The Trade-weighted Index (TWI)is a weighted average of a basket of currencies measured against the Australian dollar.

With futures the All Ordinaries Index (AOI)can be traded as separate security.

The main derivative contract used for foreign exchange is

Options contracts mainly differ from futures contracts in that they: