Derivatif adalah suatu instrument keuangan yang cukup umum digunakan oleh perusahaan asuransi untuk melakukan proteksi, baik memproteksi unrealized gain maupun meminimalkan risiko tingkat suku bunga. “A long term option to buy one or more shares of common stock in a given company at a specified price” merupakan salah satu derivative tersebut, yaitu
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Common derivatives used by insurance companies[1]
- Right : An option to buy shares of a new issue of common stock at a specified price, before it is offered to the public.
- Future : A negotiable instrument that enables the holder to sell the underlying security at a specified price within a certain time period.
- Call : A negotiable instrument that enables the holder to buy the underlying security at a specified price within a certain time period.
- Cap : An index option that sets the maximum value the option can attain, at which point the option is automatically excercised.
- Warrant: A long-term option to buy one or more shares of common stock in a given company at a specified price.
Jawaban: e. warrant
[1]Mulligan, E. and Stone, G. (1997). Accounting and financial reporting in life and health insurance companies. Atlanta, Ga.: Life Management Institute, LOMA.