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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
At first I would like thank our course teacher Dr. Mahmood Osman Imam for giving
us such an important job like managing the portfolio insurance using dynamic asset
allocation strategy.
During the preparation of the report we did have some problem that has been
erased out with your propound lecture and assistance. Without your cooperation
and guideline this report would have been an incomplete one. Finally thank you for
your supportive thought and kind consideration for formulating an idea.
Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. Management of Equity Risk
3. Asset Allocation Strategies
4. Portfolio Insurance
5. Dynamic Asset Allocation Strategy
6. Industry Analysis
7. Company Analysis
8. Information
9. 100% Equity Investment
10. 50% Equity and 50% Bond Investment
11. Delta Calculation
12. Graphical Presentation:
Static Approach
Delta
Dynamic Approach
13. References
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report PORTFOLIO INSURANCE DYNAMIC ASSET ALLOCATION STRATEGY " is
prepared to fulfill the partial requirement of Financial Derivatives course (F-503) of
MBA Program of UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA.
The objective of this report is to find out how equity risk can be managed (either
eliminated or reduced) through dynamic asset allocation. This report discusses the
ways of handling the risk arising from holdings of portfolio of risky assets and
riskless assets that means how to manage insured portfolio which is a hedging
technique frequently used by institutional investors when the market direction is
uncertain or volatile. Portfolio insurance is a dynamic trading strategy designed to
protect a portfolio from market declines while preserving the opportunity to
participate in market advances.
Several portfolio insurance methods exist and are used in practice. The best known
strategy involves trading in real and / or synthetic options. For some reasons,
most investors prefer not to use the option market for insuring the portfolio. Hence
it calls for the dynamic trading strategy replicating the option strategy to insure the
portfolio. In this strategy, the manager replicates an option through continuously
Sector
Market Capitalization
Turnover (Tk. in
mn)
For the
For this
Month % of
Month Septemb total turno
October
er ver
Financial Institutions
Banks
85,075
62,019
9,584
8,051
4.99
147.8
270.48
2.43
1,920.85
1,515
40.03
47.95
0.66
Foods
11,234
11,359
5.85
133.23
127.23
2.19
Pharmaceuti
cals
29,478
28,602
15.35
579.98
832.78
9.53
Textile
8,553
7,746
4.45
278.51
483.27
4.58
Engineering
8,277
7,162
4.31
340.31
240.66
5.59
823
916
0.43
25.24
38.97
0.41
Insurance
Investment
60.93
Manufacturing
Ceramics
Tannery
3,666
3,498
1.91
123.78
176.79
2.03
Paper &
Printing
184
222
0.1
0.99
3.49
0.02
Jute
143
133
0.07
0.22
0.24
23,337
22,148
12.15
339.11
258.61
5.57
Cement
Fuel &
Power
4,628
4,231
2.41
42.99
18.87
0.71
Service &
Real Estate
1,274
1,224
0.66
49.01
59.9
0.81
IT
1,131
933
0.59
118.63
142.82
1.95
Miscellaneo
us
2,253
2,024
1.17
158.61
137.55
2.61
According to the performance of different sectors I select five companies from five
sectors which are: Bank, pharmaceutical, textile, food and engineering.
The top five sectors according to turnover are:
1. Banks
2. Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals
3. Engineering
4. Cement
5. Textile.
The top five sectors according to market capitalization are:
1. Banks
2. Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals
3. Cement
4. Food
5. Insurance
6. Company Analysis
7. Once market analysis has indicated a favorable time to invest in common
stocks and industry analysis has been performed to find those industries with
the most promising future, it remains for the investor to choose promising
companies within those industries. In doing company analysis an investor
should think in terms of the two components of fundamental value
dividends and required rate of return or alternatively, earnings and the P/E
ratio.
8. Companies are analyzed through the study of wide range of data, including
P/E ratios, EPS, NAV per share, net profit or loss after tax, reserve and
surplus, market categories and so on. According to these criteria of company
analysis I selected the following companies which are shown in the following
table-
Name of the
Company
Marker
Category
Reserve
&
Surplus
Net Profit/(Loss)
after Tax (Tk.
Mm)
EPS
P/E
Ratio
Dhaka Bank
589.49
269.01
50.65
14.62
Singer
Bangladesh
86.01
129.28
77.78
21.83
Padma Textile
1174.91
78.43
9.49
10.47
British
American
1708.79
871.31
14.52
9.99
Tobacco
ACI Limited
186.86
85.41
5.28
16.43
9.
There are four category A, B, G and Z. The turnovers of A category
companies are higher than other categories (B, G, Z).
10.
References
11.Managing Equity Risk: Strategies, Stock Index Future, And Portfolio Insurance
12.Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, John C. Hull
13.Fundamental of Investment, Charles P. Jones, Frank k. Reilly, Keith C. Brown
14.The Evolution of Portfolio Insurance, Hayne E. Leland and Mark Rubinstein
15.(Published in Dynamic Hedging: A Guide to Portfolio Insurance,
16.edited by Don Luskin (John Wiley and Sons, 1988)
17.
Websites:
18.www.dsebd.org (Dhaka Stock Exchange)
19.http://www.secbd.org (Securities and Exchange Commission, Bangladesh)
20.www.investopedia.com
21.www.dynaporte.com
22.www.in-the-money.com