Cutting Edge
Cutting Edge is the quantitative finance section of Risk.net. It publishes exclusive peer-reviewed papers selected for their originality, relevance and applicability to financial markets. It also publishes podcasts with leading quants on the most topical issues, and comments from practitioners and our editorial team.
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Podcast: Olivier Daviaud on P&L attribution for options
- The study addresses the P&L attribution problem from the perspective of a buy-side market player
- A time horizon of months is key for portfolio managers, as opposed to daily pricing which is mostly used in dealers’ applications
- The solution builds on previous findings on the relationships between performance and difference between realised and implied volatilities
Rethinking P&L attribution for options
A buy-side perspective on how to decompose the P&L of index options is presented
Filling gaps in market data with optimal transport
Julius Baer quant proposes novel way to generate accurate prices for illiquid maturities
Volatility shape-shifters: arbitrage-free shaping of implied volatility surfaces
Manipulating implied volatility surfaces using optimal transport theory has several applications
Georgios Skoufis on RFRs, convexity adjustments and Sabr
Bloomberg quant discusses his new approach for calculating convexity adjustments for RFR swaps
