Discount Certificates: Buying the Share Cheaper, Giving Up the Upside
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In this lesson
You measure the discount and the maximum return of a fictional discount certificate, fill its payoff and return table against holding the share directly and chart both lines to see where each one is ahead.
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Lessons in this course
- Building Blocks: the Zero-Coupon Floor and the Option BudgetFree
- Capital-Protected Notes: Participation Rates and the Cap Trade-Off Locked
- Discount Certificates: Buying the Share Cheaper, Giving Up the Upside Locked
- Reverse Convertibles: Fixed Coupon, Cash or Shares at the Strike Locked
- Barriers and Worst-Of: Touched Flags on Given Price Paths Locked
- Autocall Schedules: Triggers, Coupon Barriers and Memory Coupons Locked
- Costs and Issuer Risk: Fair Value, Embedded Cost and Default Locked
- Capstone: Three Products, the Share and Cash on One Scenario Grid Locked