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''Risk management - inflation risk - Consumer Price Index (CPI) - derivative instruments - swaps - inflation swap.''
An artificial legal person with a separate identity from its members.


A CPI fixing swap is an agreement to exchange:
Among other important benefits, undertaking business activities through a company enables the separation of day to day management from overall ownership and control, the easier transfer of ownership rights (in the form of shares), and limited liability for the shareholders.
 
:(1) a series of payments referenced to the Consumer Price (or Prices) Index; for
 
:(2) a fixed rate of interest.
 
 
CPI fixing swaps are used to manage CPI inflation risk.
 
Like other capital market swaps, they are settled net.
 
 
Their current market prices also indicate the swap market's current average expectations about future rates of CPI inflation.
 
This is a dimension of ''expectations theory''.


In the US more commonly - though not always - known as a 'corporation'.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Accreting swap]]
* [[Associated company]]
* [[Amortising swap]]
* [[Board of directors]]
* [[Asset-based swap]]
* [[Certificate of incorporation]]
* [[Basis swap]]
* [[Companies Act]]
* [[Capital market swap]]
* [[Companies House]]
* [[Collateral swap]]
* [[Corporate]]
* [[Constant maturity credit default swap]]
* [[Corporation]]
* [[Consumer Price Index]] (CPI - US)
* [[Corporation Tax]]
* [[Consumer Prices Index]] (CPI - UK)
* [[Firm]]
* [[Contract for differences]]
* [[Legal personality]]
* [[Counterparty]]
* [[Limited liability]]
* [[CPI swap]]
* [[Multinational corporation/company]]
* [[Credit default swap]]
* [[Objects clause]]
* [[Currency swap]]
* [[Private company]]
* [[Debt for equity swap]]
* [[Proxy]]
* [[Derivative instrument]]
* [[Quorum]]
* [[Equity swap]]
* [[Small and Medium-sized Enterprises]]
* [[Expectations theory]]
* [[Statutory company]]
* [[Fixing instrument]]
* [[Veil of incorporation]]
* [[Inflation]]
* [[Inflation risk]]
* [[Inflation swap]]
* [[Interest rate swap]]
* [[International Swaps and Derivatives Association]] (ISDA)
* [[Longevity swap]]
* [[Overnight indexed swap]]
* [[Notional principal]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[Swap]]
* [[Swap Break Clauses]]
* [[Swap overlay]]
* [[Swap rate]]
* [[Swaption]]
* [[Total return swap]]
* [[Zero-coupon swap]]


[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Regulation_and_Law]]
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:Investment]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Risk_reporting]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]

Revision as of 16:25, 18 June 2013

An artificial legal person with a separate identity from its members.

Among other important benefits, undertaking business activities through a company enables the separation of day to day management from overall ownership and control, the easier transfer of ownership rights (in the form of shares), and limited liability for the shareholders.

In the US more commonly - though not always - known as a 'corporation'.

See also

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