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In finance , a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity. This underlying entity can be an asset , index , or interest rate , and is often simply called the "underlying".

Some of the more common derivatives include forwards , futures , options , swaps , and variations of these such as synthetic collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. Most derivatives are traded over-the-counter off-exchange or on an exchange such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , while most insurance contracts have developed into a separate industry.

In the United States , after the financial crisis of — , there has been increased pressure to move derivatives to trade on exchanges. Derivatives are one of the three main categories of financial instruments, the other two being equity i. The oldest example of a derivative in history, attested to by Aristotle , is thought to be a contract transaction of olives , entered into by ancient Greek philosopher Thales , who made a profit in the exchange.

Derivatives are contracts between two parties that specify conditions especially the dates, resulting values and definitions of the underlying variables, the parties' contractual obligations, and the notional amount under which payments are to be made between the parties. The components of a firm's capital structure , e. From the economic point of view, financial derivatives are cash flows that are conditioned stochastically and discounted to present value.

The market risk inherent in the underlying asset is attached to the financial derivative through contractual agreements and hence can be traded separately. Derivatives therefore allow the breakup of ownership and participation in the market value of an asset. This also provides a considerable amount of freedom regarding the contract design. That contractual freedom allows derivative designers to modify the participation in the performance of the underlying asset almost arbitrarily.

Thus, the participation in the market value of the underlying can be effectively weaker, stronger leverage effect , or implemented as inverse. Hence, specifically the market price risk of the underlying asset can be controlled in almost every situation. There are two groups of derivative contracts: the privately traded over-the-counter OTC derivatives such as swaps that do not go through an exchange or other intermediary, and exchange-traded derivatives ETD that are traded through specialized derivatives exchanges or other exchanges.

Derivatives are more common in the modern era, but their origins trace back several centuries. One of the oldest derivatives is rice futures, which have been traded on the Dojima Rice Exchange since the eighteenth century.

Derivatives may broadly be categorized as "lock" or "option" products. Lock products such as swaps , futures , or forwards obligate the contractual parties to the terms over the life of the contract. Option products such as interest rate swaps provide the buyer the right, but not the obligation to enter the contract under the terms specified. Derivatives can be used either for risk management i. to " hedge " by providing offsetting compensation in case of an undesired event, a kind of "insurance" or for speculation i.

making a financial "bet". This distinction is important because the former is a prudent aspect of operations and financial management for many firms across many industries; the latter offers managers and investors a risky opportunity to increase profit, which may not be properly disclosed to stakeholders. Along with many other financial products and services, derivatives reform is an element of the Dodd—Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of The Act delegated many rule-making details of regulatory oversight to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC and those details are not finalized nor fully implemented as of late However, these are "notional" values, and some economists say that these aggregated values greatly exaggerate the market value and the true credit risk faced by the parties involved.

Still, even these scaled-down figures represent huge amounts of money. At least for one type of derivative, Credit Default Swaps CDS , for which the inherent risk is considered high [ by whom?

It was this type of derivative that investment magnate Warren Buffett referred to in his famous speech in which he warned against "financial weapons of mass destruction". Lock products are theoretically valued at zero at the time of execution and thus do not typically require an up-front exchange between the parties. Based upon movements in the underlying asset over time, however, the value of the contract will fluctuate, and the derivative may be either an asset i.

Importantly, either party is therefore exposed to the credit quality of its counterparty and is interested in protecting itself in an event of default. Option products have immediate value at the outset because they provide specified protection intrinsic value over a given time period time value. One common form of option product familiar to many consumers is insurance for homes and automobiles. The insured would pay more for a policy with greater liability protections intrinsic value and one that extends for a year rather than six months time value.

Because of the immediate option value, the option purchaser typically pays an up front premium. Just like for lock products, movements in the underlying asset will cause the option's intrinsic value to change over time while its time value deteriorates steadily until the contract expires. An important difference between a lock product is that, after the initial exchange, the option purchaser has no further liability to its counterparty; upon maturity, the purchaser will execute the option if it has positive value i.

Derivatives allow risk related to the price of the underlying asset to be transferred from one party to another. For example, a wheat farmer and a miller could sign a futures contract to exchange a specified amount of cash for a specified amount of wheat in the future. Both parties have reduced a future risk: for the wheat farmer, the uncertainty of the price, and for the miller, the availability of wheat. However, there is still the risk that no wheat will be available because of events unspecified by the contract, such as the weather, or that one party will renege on the contract.

Although a third party, called a clearing house , insures a futures contract, not all derivatives are insured against counter-party risk. From another perspective, the farmer and the miller both reduce a risk and acquire a risk when they sign the futures contract: the farmer reduces the risk that the price of wheat will fall below the price specified in the contract and acquires the risk that the price of wheat will rise above the price specified in the contract thereby losing additional income that he could have earned.

The miller, on the other hand, acquires the risk that the price of wheat will fall below the price specified in the contract thereby paying more in the future than he otherwise would have and reduces the risk that the price of wheat will rise above the price specified in the contract.

In this sense, one party is the insurer risk taker for one type of risk, and the counter-party is the insurer risk taker for another type of risk. Hedging also occurs when an individual or institution buys an asset such as a commodity, a bond that has coupon payments , a stock that pays dividends, and so on and sells it using a futures contract. The individual or institution has access to the asset for a specified amount of time, and can then sell it in the future at a specified price according to the futures contract.

Of course, this allows the individual or institution the benefit of holding the asset, while reducing the risk that the future selling price will deviate unexpectedly from the market's current assessment of the future value of the asset. Derivatives trading of this kind may serve the financial interests of certain particular businesses. The corporation is concerned that the rate of interest may be much higher in six months.

The corporation could buy a forward rate agreement FRA , which is a contract to pay a fixed rate of interest six months after purchases on a notional amount of money. If the rate is lower, the corporation will pay the difference to the seller. The purchase of the FRA serves to reduce the uncertainty concerning the rate increase and stabilize earnings. Derivatives can be used to acquire risk, rather than to hedge against risk. Thus, some individuals and institutions will enter into a derivative contract to speculate on the value of the underlying asset.

Speculators look to buy an asset in the future at a low price according to a derivative contract when the future market price is high, or to sell an asset in the future at a high price according to a derivative contract when the future market price is less.

Speculative trading in derivatives gained a great deal of notoriety in when Nick Leeson , a trader at Barings Bank , made poor and unauthorized investments in futures contracts.

Individuals and institutions may also look for arbitrage opportunities, as when the current buying price of an asset falls below the price specified in a futures contract to sell the asset.

The true proportion of derivatives contracts used for hedging purposes is unknown, [26] but it appears to be relatively small. In broad terms, there are two groups of derivative contracts, which are distinguished by the way they are traded in the market:. Over-the-counter OTC derivatives are contracts that are traded and privately negotiated directly between two parties, without going through an exchange or other intermediary.

Products such as swaps , forward rate agreements , exotic options — and other exotic derivatives — are almost always traded in this way. The OTC derivative market is the largest market for derivatives, and is largely unregulated with respect to disclosure of information between the parties, since the OTC market is made up of banks and other highly sophisticated parties, such as hedge funds.

Reporting of OTC amounts is difficult because trades can occur in private, without activity being visible on any exchanges.

According to the Bank for International Settlements , who first surveyed OTC derivatives in , [30] reported that the " gross market value , which represent the cost of replacing all open contracts at the prevailing market prices, Because OTC derivatives are not traded on an exchange, there is no central counter-party. Therefore, they are subject to counterparty risk , like an ordinary contract , since each counter-party relies on the other to perform.

Exchange-traded derivatives ETD are those derivatives instruments that are traded via specialized derivatives exchanges or other exchanges. A derivatives exchange is a market where individuals trade standardized contracts that have been defined by the exchange. Inverse exchange-traded funds IETFs and leveraged exchange-traded funds LETFs [33] are two special types of exchange traded funds ETFs that are available to common traders and investors on major exchanges like the NYSE and Nasdaq.

To maintain these products' net asset value , these funds' administrators must employ more sophisticated financial engineering methods than what's usually required for maintenance of traditional ETFs. These instruments must also be regularly rebalanced and re-indexed each day. A collateralized debt obligation CDO is a type of structured asset-backed security ABS.

An "asset-backed security" is used as an umbrella term for a type of security backed by a pool of assets—including collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed securities MBS Example: "The capital market in which asset-backed securities are issued and traded is composed of three main categories: ABS, MBS and CDOs".

Like other private-label securities backed by assets, a CDO can be thought of as a promise to pay investors in a prescribed sequence, based on the cash flow the CDO collects from the pool of bonds or other assets it owns. The CDO is "sliced" into "tranches" , which "catch" the cash flow of interest and principal payments in sequence based on seniority.

The last to lose payment from default are the safest, most senior tranches. As an example, a CDO might issue the following tranches in order of safeness: Senior AAA sometimes known as "super senior" ; Junior AAA; AA; A; BBB; Residual. Separate special-purpose entities —rather than the parent investment bank —issue the CDOs and pay interest to investors.

As CDOs developed, some sponsors repackaged tranches into yet another iteration called " CDO-Squared " or the "CDOs of CDOs". CDO collateral became dominated not by loans, but by lower level BBB or A tranches recycled from other asset-backed securities, whose assets were usually non-prime mortgages.

A credit default swap CDS is a financial swap agreement that the seller of the CDS will compensate the buyer the creditor of the reference loan in the event of a loan default by the debtor or other credit event. The buyer of the CDS makes a series of payments the CDS "fee" or "spread" to the seller and, in exchange, receives a payoff if the loan defaults. It was invented by Blythe Masters from JP Morgan in In the event of default the buyer of the CDS receives compensation usually the face value of the loan , and the seller of the CDS takes possession of the defaulted loan.

However, anyone with sufficient collateral to trade with a bank or hedge fund can purchase a CDS, even buyers who do not hold the loan instrument and who have no direct insurable interest in the loan these are called "naked" CDSs. If there are more CDS contracts outstanding than bonds in existence, a protocol exists to hold a credit event auction ; the payment received is usually substantially less than the face value of the loan.

CDSs are not traded on an exchange and there is no required reporting of transactions to a government agency. courts may soon be following suit. Most CDSs are documented using standard forms drafted by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association ISDA , although there are many variants.

In addition to corporations and governments, the reference entity can include a special-purpose vehicle issuing asset-backed securities. A CDS can be unsecured without collateral and be at higher risk for a default. In finance, a forward contract or simply a forward is a non-standardized contract between two parties to buy or to sell an asset at a specified future time at an amount agreed upon today, making it a type of derivative instrument.

The party agreeing to buy the underlying asset in the future assumes a long position , and the party agreeing to sell the asset in the future assumes a short position. The price agreed upon is called the delivery price , which is equal to the forward price at the time the contract is entered into.

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