Managing and Disclosing Risks of Investing in Derivatives

This practical handbook on key issues in derivatives investment, covers such topics as risks from using and not using derivatives, the disclosures that dealers should make to customers, whether derivatives are securities, and what disclosures should be made by users to their shareholders.

List of contents

The topic and the panelists; what is a derivative?; the volume of derivative trading; "normal" use of derivatives; exotic derivative products; risks from not using derivatives; disclosures by dealers to customers; what if the customer is not authorized to deal in derivatives?; are derivatives securities?; disclosures by end-users; suits by end-users against dealers; potential liability of directors of the end-user; differences among regulators - is there a race to the bottom?; questions from the floor; morals.

Product details

• Authors: BROWN, Meredith M. Brown, Meredith M Brown
• Assisted by: Meredith Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9789041109309
• ISBN: 978-90-411-0930-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 236 g
• Series: International Bar Association; International Bar Association
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Taxes