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From: Steven Sinofsky
To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>
Subject: Fwd: MSFT risk reduction
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:23:09 +0000
Attachments: 20140908_Collar.pdf; MSF_Delta_Shi 8_9_8_1 4.pdf
What do you think of this approach? 547,515 shares with a cost basis of about 27.50 averaged
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From: Goodspeed, Matthew X
Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:12 PM
Subject: MSFT risk reduction
To: Steven Sinofsky
Cc: "Irwin, Don X"
, "Dunn, Ashley P"
We investigated quite a few strategies for hedging your MSFT position given your input/preferences. These strategies
included (but were not limited to) the following:
Long Put
A 1 year put option (90% of spot price) cost about 5.8% out of pocket and a 1 year option 80% of spot still required
around 3.15%. This seemed expensive to us so we looked for ways to cheapen the cost.
Put Spread Collar
Selling a 110% call option to help finance a 90% put option results in a more amenable 2.45% out of pocket cost. If you
were to sell a put to help fully offset the cost of purchasing the 90% put, the put strike would have to be set at 83%. That
limits the total downside protection to only 7% while fully capping upside after 110%. Again, this tradeoff seemed less
than amenable.
Laddered Strategy
After pricing other "options", we developed the following strategy that we recommend you consider. An illustration of this
recommendation has been attached above:
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Collar 25% of the MSFT position for 1 year by selling a 105% call to finance a 90% put — cost is approximately 1.3% of
notional (or $79,598)
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Collar 25% of the MSFT position for 1 year by selling a 110% call to finance a 90% put — cost is approximately 2.45% of
notional (or $150,012)
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Collar 25% of the MSFT position for 1 year by selling a 115% call to finance an 85% put — cost is approximately 2.25%
of notional (or 137,767)
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Write actively-managed covered calls on 25% of the position leaving upside (and downside) uncapped (and
unhedged) — anticipated net premiums assuming no change in stock price of 1.94% or $118,302. Please see the second
attachment for details.
Using the above laddered strategy as our recommended baseline approach, we would welcome any thoughts/feedback.
We can then incorporate this feedback to further refine our strategy and recommendations. As always, don't hesitate to
call/e-mail with any questions!
Best,
--goodspeed
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