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Investments 4/c/e
Investments, 4th Canadian Edition, 4/e
Zvi Bodie, Boston University School of Management
Alex Kane, University of California, San Diego
Alan Marcus, Boston College
Stylianos Perrakis, Concordia University
Peter Ryan, University of Ottawa
Futures and Forward Markets

Internet Exercises

Prepared by William Lim, University of New Brunswick.

Go to http://www.finpipe.com/derprem.htm . Finpipe.com is an excellent source of basic discussion on the derivatives markets. From this site, access the descriptions on the following types of swaps: Interest Rate Swaps, Commodity Swaps, Equity Swaps and Commodity Swaps.

Describe each of the swaps.

Give an example of how each of the swaps could be used to hedge risk.





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