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Cutting Edge introduction: Wrong-way risk and the limits of correlation...
Traditional models for wrong-way risk focus on the correlation between default and exposure – a blunt tool for a tail risk. Alternatives are thin on the ground, but a scenario-based approach may provide...
Debit valuation adjustments are becoming well understood for derivatives and liabilities – but can affect the asset side of the balance sheet too. Specifically, assets such as so-called goodwill depend...
Withdrawal guarantees ensure the periodic deduction of a constant dollar amount from a fund for a fixed number of periods. If the fund is depleted before the last withdrawal, the guarantor has to finance...
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Wrong-way risk, credit and funding
The risk of exposure and counterparty default probability both increasing – so-called wrong-way risk – is usually understood in terms of the correlation between the two variables. But this approach is focused more on the centre of the distribution,...
Non-linear momentum strategies
Trading strategies that follow trends, or market momentum, result in positively skewed distribution of trading returns. Strategies that are linear in the factors driving the momentum have been studied before, but Richard Martin and Ali Bana extend this...
Cutting Edge introduction: Goodwill for DVA
The debit valuation adjustment is a controversial concept when applied to derivatives liabilities, but it has won accountants round. Further thought shows it could be applied more broadly – even to purely positive assets. Laurie Carver introduces this...
Closing out DVA
The choice of a close-out convention applicable on the default of a derivatives counterparty can have a significant effect on the credit and debit valuation adjustments, as can the order of defaults
Rational shapes of local volatility
The asymptotic behaviour of local volatility surfaces for low and high strikes – the so-called wings – is important in option pricing and risk management. Stefano De Marco, Peter Friz and Stefan Gerhold show certain models allow for the derivation...
DVA for assets
Debit valuation adjustments are becoming well understood for derivatives and liabilities – but can affect the asset side of the balance sheet too. Specifically, assets such as so-called goodwill depend on the creditworthiness of the firm. Chris Kenyon...
Cutting edge: Hedging price and volumetric risks of fixed-price load...
In this article, Ning Zhang and Robert Cumbie propose a utility maximisation method for natural gas marketers to find optimal hedging strategies to deal with price and load uncertainty by using price and weather derivatives. Monte Carlo simulation...
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