Correlation Risk Modelling and Management (2nd Edition)
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ISBN: 978-1-78272-405-6
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Hedging Correlation Risk
Hedging Correlation Risk
Introduction
Correlation Basics: Definitions, Applications and Terminology
Empirical Properties of Correlation: How do Correlations Behave in the Real World?
The Pearson Correlation Model – Work of the Devil?
Cointegration – A Superior Concept to Correlation?
Financial Correlation Modelling – Bottom-up Approaches
Valuing CDOs with the Gaussian Copula – What Went Wrong?
The One-Factor Gaussian Copula Model – Too Simplistic?
Financial Correlation Models – Top-Down Approaches
Stochastic Correlation Models
Quantifying Market Correlation Risk
Quantifying Credit Correlation Risk
Hedging Correlation Risk
Correlation Trading Strategies – Opportunities and Limitations
Credit Value at Risk under Basel III – Too Simplistic?
Basel III and XVAs
Fundamental Review of the Trading Book
The Future of Correlation Modelling
Answers to Questions and Problems in Correlation Risk Modelling and Management
“Only if it was possible to delta-hedge correlation risk … would it make sense to use a full-blown stochastic correlation model”
– Lorenzo Bergomi
In this chapter, we will discuss why hedging financial correlation risk is more challenging than hedging other financial risks such as market risk and credit risk. However, we will show two methods that can be applied to hedge financial correlation risk. At the end of the chapter, we will discuss in which situations it is better to hedge with options and in which it is better to hedge with futures.
WHAT IS HEDGING?
Let us first clarify what hedging is. Hedging is entering into a second trade to reduce the risk of an original trade. If the original trade is a simple transaction such as being long a bond, there are three main ways to hedge the market risk (risk of an unfavourable change in the price) and the credit risk (migration risk and default risk; see Figure 11.1 in the previous chapter). Let us assume an investor had bought a Greek government bond. To hedge the risk, they can perform one of the following.
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Simply sell the bond. This is beneficial since all types of risk, such as market risk, credit risk
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