How does traditional option hedging perform in the South African equity market?

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Mare, Eben

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Investment Analysts Society of Southern Africa

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Derivative securities are frequently priced within the Black-Scholes methodology. Theoretically this entails maintaining a hedge consisting of the underlying asset and cash which needs to be rebalanced continuously. In practice, traders would only rebalance such hedges on a discrete basis. We examine the effects of discrete rebalancing of derivative hedges written on the FTSE/JSE TOP40 index.

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Equity markets

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Maré, E 2009, 'How does traditional option hedging perform in the South African equity market', Investment Analysts Journal, no. 70, pp. 27-31.[http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_invest.html]