Rollback forward contracts: A case study application in companies

The study intends to detail the infrastructure of a hedging strategy for f/x management via the actual practise of rollback forward contracts -as being a subderivative of forward contracts- upon two real sector companies, while simultaneously analysing the causality of the f/x gain/loss of actually practiced rollback forward contracts and the actual pretax profit/loss of the companies. The sample companies are foreign capital real sector companies operating in automotive business in Turkey. As a result of the analysis, to be true only for the second sample company, a causality relationship bw. the f/x gain/loss when forward contracts were rolled back and the pretax profit was determined, while lacking of causality relationship for all the rest of the series. Keywords: Financial Risk, Financial Derivatives, Hedging, Rollback Forward Contracts