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Time for multi-period capital models
Several financial institutions use single-period models to determine their credit portfolio loss distribution, calculate their loss volatility and assign economic capital.
The expectation game
Cutting Edge: Life Insurance
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Merrill Lynch
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Fibanc
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BCC San Giorgio e Meduno
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Abbey
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An empirical analysis of equity default swaps (I): univariate insights
Arnaud de Servigny and Norbert Jobst assess whether standard quantitative credit techniques can be used to measure the individual risk of hybrid instruments called equity default swaps (EDSs). This endeavour is based on extensive empirical work. The…
Operational VAR: a closed-form approximation
Klaus Böcker and Claudia Klüppelberg investigate a simple loss distribution model for operational risk. They show that, when loss data is heavy-tailed (which in practice it is), a simple closed-form approximation for operational VAR can be obtained. They…
A matter of principal
Developing term structure models can be tricky, as unknown factors and non-observable variables can affect futures prices. But principal components analysis is useful in tackling these problems. Here, Delphine Lautier uses PCA to pin down price movements…
Police Mutual
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First Trust Bank
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UBS
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ABN Amro
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Time for multi-period capital models
Several financial institutions use single-period models to determine their credit portfolio loss distribution, calculate their loss volatility and assign economic capital. Here, Kevin Thompson, Alistair McLeod, Panayiotis Teklos and Shobhit Gupta…
Trading down the slopes
The credit derivatives market is growing at an impressive rate, with the credit default swap (CDS) being the most popular instrument. This article is relevant for the trading of CDSs and bond portfolios. Mascia Bedendo, Lara Cathcart, Lina El-Jahel and…
An economic capital approach for hedge fund structured products
Hedge fund structured products are increasingly favoured by investors. Banks have been swiftly developing their commercial offers to meet this demand. However, the theoretical framework for the risk management of these products remains little explored,…
Unbiased risk-neutral loss distributions
Luigi Vacca introduces entropy maximisation (ME) to derive portfolio loss probabilities that are consistent with standard tranche prices on a credit default swap index. Tranche prices that are calculated using ME are free of arbitrage. A numerical…