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Corporate Financial Strategy
Chapter 11
Financial instruments: the building blocks
Corporate Financial Strategy4th edition
Dr Ruth Bender
Corporate Financial Strategy
Financial instruments: contents
Learning objectives Risk and return The risk-averse investor The speculative investor The building blocks of financial instruments Characteristics of debt and equity Rules for designing a financial instrument Risk profile determines yield and gain to investor Caps, floors, and collars Net flows from swapping floating rate into fixed
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Learning objectives
1. Explain the fundamental characteristics of debt and equity.
2. Identify and contrast the different risk-reduction mechanisms used by investors and lenders.
3. Analyse a financial instrument to determine the yield, upside, and risk reduction mechanisms it adopts.
4. Understand the basics of interest rate management tools.
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Risk and return
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Perceived risk
Requiredreturn
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The risk-averse investor
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Perceived risk
Requiredreturn
Market line
Risk-averse investor
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The speculative investor
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Perceived risk
Requiredreturn
Market line
Speculative investor
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The building blocks of financial instruments
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Risk v Return
YieldFixed / Floating / Other
Discretionary or by right?
UpsideSale / Redemption /
Exchange?
Depends on markets or on the company?
Guaranteed? Discretionary?
Perks
Downside protection
Repayment
Security
Guarantees
Covenants
Voting rights
Veto rights
Board representation
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Characteristics of debt and equity
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Debt EquityRisk to the investor Low, protected by
security and covenants
High
Yield Interest, normally contractually agreed
Dividends, at the discretion of the directors
Potential upside to the investor
None Very high
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Rules for designing a financial instrument
The expected return on a financial instrument must be consistent with the investor’s perceived risk
The return will come from yield and upside.
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Risk profiles determine yield and gain to investors
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Perceived risk
0%
100%
100% yield
100% gain
Proportion of required
return supplied by
yield
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Caps, floors, and collars
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cap
floor
collar
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Net flows from swapping from floating rate into fixed
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Borrower
Lender
Counterparty
Loan & repayments
Floating rate interest payments
Fixed rate interest payments
Floating rate interest payments
Borrower borrows Floating
Borrower swaps into Fixed