Hedging
Targeted hedging
Sponsored Statement
Flight plan
British Airways' Group treasurer, George Stinnes, talks to Alexander Campbell
JP Morgan back on top
Risk corporate end-user rankings 2008
Living with volatility
Variable annuities
The creative hedge
Equity derivatives
ECB president underlines three risks to financial stability
Trichet outlines risks in hedge, LBO and credit risk transfer
Maximum draw-down and directional trading
Maximum draw-down measures the worst drop in a market in a given time period. Jan Vecer shows how to price and replicate this event. Replication can be naturally linked to existing popular trading strategies, such as momentum or contrarian trading
Maximum draw-down and directional trading
Maximum draw-down measures the worst drop in a market in a given time period. Jan Vecer shows how to price and replicate this event. Replication can be naturally linked to existing popular trading strategies, such as momentum or contrarian trading
Hedge fund technologies
Energy markets continue to attract hedge funds - but, as recent high profile losses have shown, operating in them is challenging. Having the right trading and risk management IT is essential. Stewart Eisenhart reports
The real value of stock
Collars involve the payment of a variable amount of stock, depending on an average stock price. In this article, Anthony Pavlovich uses the Black-Scholes framework to value these exotic derivatives and explore issues with hedging, as well as providing an…
The right of refusal
Traders have learned that giving away free financial options can be costly. However, free options can take many forms. Brett Humphreys and Tamara Weinert discuss the value of a risk management option that can easily be given away
Replication of flexi-swaps
Ingmar Evers and Farshid Jamshidian describe a relatively new product known as a flexi-swap and discuss its application in securitisation. A flexi-swap gives a counterparty an option to amortise the interest rate swap at an accelerated pace. They show…
Excess yields in bond hedging
Litterman & Scheinkman (1991) showed that the term structure of interest rates is reliablymodelled by an affine three-factor model using principal component analysis. Such a modelis inconsistent with no arbitrage. Here, Haim Reisman and Gady Zohar derive…
Crude protection
Oil producers are divided over the value of hedging oil prices. Are investorslooking for high returns and high risk, or more stable revenues? And how muchdoes hedging actually boost an oil producer’s value? By Joe Marsh
Using a square peg
Hedging load exposures is a complex issue, and plumping for hedging the expectedvolume is unlikely to be the best solution. Brett Humphreys and RahulGill showthat sometimes, the best hedge of a shaped position is an over-hedge
What’s a basket worth?
Peter Laurence and Tai-Ho Wang take a significant step in the valuation of basket options with positive and fixed weights. These model all index options, price, cap or equal weighted. Departing from the usual Black-Scholes framework, the authors provide…
What’s a basket worth?
Peter Laurence and Tai-Ho Wang take a significant step in the valuation of basket options with positive and fixed weights. These model all index options, price, cap or equal weighted. Departing from the usual Black-Scholes framework, the authors provide…
All your hedges in one basket
Leif Andersen, Jakob Sidenius and Susanta Basu present new techniques for single-tranche CDO sensitivity and hedge ratio calculations. Using factorisation of the copula correlation matrix, discretisation of the conditional loss distribution followed by a…
To store or not to store
Natural Gas