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by Krishnajg
August 2nd, 2010, 4:13 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Contingent Forward Sale
Replies: 1
Views: 29309

Contingent Forward Sale

<t>Hi,How does an investment bank hedge a Contingent Forward Sale? I understand that these products are popular in US corporate equity derivs space. The products look like series of call overwriting but am interested to know exactly how the banks hedge their exposure.The definition that I am aware o...
by Krishnajg
March 25th, 2004, 3:20 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Need Career Advice
Replies: 0
Views: 189277

Need Career Advice

<r>Hi All,I seek career advice. I know it is asking too much for your time, but if you can give your two cents and help me out, it will be of great use to me.My background and interests: By academics, did my engineering in metallurgy and then worked for 1 year in software development. Had got Indian...
by Krishnajg
February 19th, 2004, 5:12 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Death of Amoeba
Replies: 44
Views: 199001

Death of Amoeba

<t>A jar begins with one amoeba. Every minute, every amoeba turns into 0, 1, 2, or 3 amoebae with probability 25% for each case ( dies, does nothing, splits into 2, or splits into 3). What is the probability that the amoeba population eventually dies out? Honestly, I solved in one way. But that was ...
by Krishnajg
February 19th, 2004, 5:03 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Math/Counting Prob
Replies: 4
Views: 190675

Math/Counting Prob

<t>Subsets having three natural numbers are being made from the set of natural numbers, 1 to 63 (including both). Prove that number of such subsets for which (a+b+c)<95 is less than the number of subsets having (a+b+c)>95. a,b and c are notations used for three natural numbers in the subsets. The su...