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{{ | The “triple cocktail” is the [[Jolly Contrarian|JC]]’s shorthand for the collection of Additional Disruption Events that can justify a broker terminating, or repricing, an equity derivatives Transaction. There is a fundamental asymmetry at play in a [[delta-one]] equity swap: the ''customer'' can get in or out at any time at will and without excuse as long as it has the resources to meet any margin calls that might come along. It is a synthetic version of buying a share on margin: the customer, and not the [[prime broker|broker]] decides when and if to buy or sell, and accordingly can stay ''in'' as song as it pleases. | ||
The broker is therefore, effectively, committed: as long as it is adequately collateralised — which is what its margin and hedge arrangements do — it should not have any reason to terminate the trade. Of course, the development over time of capital regulations, which take a dim view of indefinite commitments, put something of a gloss on that, and brokers will usually insist on some kind of 90-day break right, but this is to cheer the crowd in their treasury department, not because they would ever insist on using it. | |||
But there are some cases in which they might need to get out, and quicker than on 90 days’ notice. These are the {{eqderivprov|Additional Disruption Events}} of the triple cocktail. These are events that materially impact on the broker’s ability to manage its market risk and funding requirements. Okay, there are ''five'', but the main ones are the first three: | |||
{{eqderivprov|Change in Law}} <br> | |||
{{eqderivprov|Hedging Disruption}} <br> | |||
{{eqderivprov|Increased Cost of Hedging}} <br> | |||
{{eqderivprov|Loss of Stock Borrow}} <br> | |||
{{eqderivprov|Increased Cost of Stock Borrow}}. | |||