Sunday, May 24, 2015

equities - PPPN: participation rate, stocks and premium


I'm a student of financial engineering and am very new to all of this stuff. Now, I'm trying to make an "example of a beginners exercise", but alas, I don't have any clue on how to solve or even on how to begin this one. The exercise goes like this:



Suppose you have a PPPN where the invester recieves at maturity date 80% of his investment plus a premium, defined by: pN/S0(STS0)+,

where (STS0)+=max(STS0,0) is the positive stock return over the period [0,T] (t=T is the time to the Maturity date), an investment N and where p is the participation rate. Now, set p such that the product is attractive for investors and you have a certain margin.



In order for this exercise to get more real, I've chosen a stock at random, say Facebook, and assumed a maturity date of 13/12/2016. Here is the information of the stock found today, credits to yahoo finance: enter image description here


I thought it would be wise to choose N=S0=102.12, so that the equation of the premium simplifies to:



p(ST102.12)+.


Unfortunately, that's where my insights end. I don't have any clue on how to make further progress on this problem. Personally, I would just set p=100%, so you get the maximum possible return, but that can't be right. Any ideas/pointers/solutions?




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