Explain the Covered Call and Protective Put strategy with example?Illustrate with example strategies using the three different types of swaps.

Financial derivatives
Assignment Questions
Q1: Explain the Covered Call and Protective Put strategy with example?
Q.2 Illustrate with example strategies using the three different types of swaps.
Q.3 a- The price of a forward contract on a generic asset that expires on September10 whose spot price as of June10 is $45,assuming that the annually compounded risk-free rate is 6.01percent.
b- On a particular day, the S&P 500 futures settlement price was 899.30. You buy one contract at the settlement price at around the close of the market. The next day the contract opens at 899.70, and the settlement price at the close of the day is 899.10. Determine the value of the futures contract at the opening, an instant before the close, and after the close. Remember that the S&P futures contract has a $250 multiplier.
c- Consider a currency swap for $10 million and SF 15 million. One party pays dollars at a fixed rate of 9 percent, and the other pays Swiss francs at a fixed rate of 8 percent. The payments are made semiannually based on the exact day count and 360 days in a year. The current period has 181 days. Calculate the next payment each party makes. (03 Mark)

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