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Margining insurance liabilities
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UBS
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Deutsche Bank
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Caixa Laietana
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Nvesta
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CMCDS valuation with market models
There is little, if any, literature available on constant-maturity credit default swap (CDS) valuation. Here, Damiano Brigo builds on his no-arbitrage dynamic CDS market model to derive a formula involving a 'convexity adjustment' feature correction,…
A saddle for complex credit portfolio models
Guido Giese applies the saddle-point approximation to analyse tail losses for very general credit portfolios, including correlated defaults, stochastic recovery rates, and dependency between default probabilities and recovery rates. The numerical…
Intensity gamma
Mark Joshi and Alan Stacey develop a new model for correlation of credit defaults based on a financially intuitive concept of business time similar to that in the variance gamma model for stock price evolution
A model of op risk with imperfect controls
Jorge Sobehart considers a model for the loss severity of operational risk events whose distribution is determined by risk control and risk mitigation. In particular, he shows that ineffective risk controls can lead to heavy-tailed distributions of…
A model of time-varying volatilities in futures contracts
Despite the utility of forward price models in the risk management framework, models of spot prices are used more prevalently. Ted Kury presents a tractable model with time-varying volatility, that allows for temporal changes
Inflation swaps - Mechanics of inflation swaps
Inflation swaps can reduce the complexity of hedging calculations in liability-driven investment. But is this tool really suitable for corporate pension funds?
Caixa Geral
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Morgan Stanley
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Stratégie Euro Prestige
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Banca Aletti
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Smiling hybrids
Vladimir Piterbarg develops a multi-currency model with foreign exchange skew suitable for valuation and risk management of forex-linked hybrids, in particular power-reverse dual-currency swaps. The emphasis of the article is on model calibration to…
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…
Absolute return volatility
The use of absolute return volatility has manymodelling benefits, says John Cotter. An illustration isgiven for the market risk measure, minimum capitalrequirements
CMCDS valuation with market models
There is little, if any, literature available on constant maturity credit default swap valuation. Here, Damiano Brigo builds on his no-arbitrage dynamic credit default swap (CDS) market model to derive a formula involving a 'convexity adjustment' feature…