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Credit enhancement through financial engineering: Freeport McMoRan’s gold-denominated depositary shares
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Abstract1993~1994,McMoRan issued two
series of gold-denominated depositary shares.
Enhance the credit quality and reduce the costs.
Two superiorities:
1. Avoid wealth transfer to senior bondholders.
2. Mitigate the asset substitution problem.
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Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.
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IntroductionFreeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.
(FCX) needed to invest heavily to expand
mine capacity.
FCX management did not want to issue new
equity.
New debt issues would put further pressure
on FCX’s debt rating(low B1 by Moody).
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IntroductionThe Gold depositary shares issued by FCX
are similar to a debt instrument that has all
interest and principal payments in gold.
The positive correlation between the value of
the firm and the value of the securities.
An embedded derivative that serves to hedge
the exposure to gold price risk.
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IntroductionEnhance the credit quality and enable FCX to
finance its expansion at a lower cost.
(Scenario D)
Gold depositary shares can not be replicated
by conventional hedging strategies. (Scenario
E)
Prevent wealth transfers to senior
bondholders that arise in the case of a
conventional hedge. (Scenario D & Scenario
E)
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IntroductionShareholders have an ex-post incentive for
asset substitution in the case of a
conventional hedge.(Scenario F)
A bundled hedge significantly reduces asset substitution problem.(Scenario G)
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Scenario setThe gold mining firm has 1.97 million ounces of
gold reserves and plans to expand to 3 million
ounces.
The firm’s value is linear in the price of gold.
Gold prices are distributed uniformly over the
range of $100 to $500 per ounce.
The firm has $500 million in senior debt and need
to raise $251 million for the expansion.
Bankruptcy cost = $50 million
Risk free rate = 0
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Prior to expansion
100.0
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Scenario A
253.4
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Scenario B
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Scenario B
166.67
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Scenario C
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Scenario C
183.3
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Scenario D (gold-linked bond)
Gold-linked bonds of face value 1.0 million oz 250 < 300
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Scenario D (gold-linked bond)
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Scenario E
500.0
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Scenario E (Firm level risk management)
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Gains from ex post unwinding of the hedge
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