Fully explain what the following sentence in the chapter means: "Meier was able to steer a healthy portion of each issue away from hedge funds, which, in an effort to hedge their warrant exposures, might have shorted the Roche stock in the spot
market and thereby driven down share price." Assuming the warrants were long call options on Roche shares, explain how shorting Roche's
shares would have hedged the hedge funds' positions.
Hedge funds often purchase hybrid debt and then separate the bond from the warrant. If the warrants are long call options, the hedge fund can lock in a minimum profit and retain the potential for larger returns by shorting the share. As the share price rises, the gains from
the call option are offset by the losses on the shorted share. If the share price falls, profits rise continuously as a result of the short share position. To see this relationship, plot the hybrid formed by combining a long call option and a short share position. The hybrid looks like a long put.
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