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Title Date Europlace, March 28 th, 2008 Panel Session: New Challenges in Correlation Trading and Risk Management Benjamin Jacquard Global Head of Calyon Structured Credit Markets
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2 Agenda 1.Market evolution 2.A Closer Look At Spreads & Base Correlation Moves 3.Correlation Trading and Risk Management Challenges
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3 Market Evolution From slow deterioration to global re-pricing of risk A crisis across the credit activity spectrum 1
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4 …And contagion on High Grade Correlation Investment Grade SS Tranches Spreads Investment Grade Spreads 1. Deterioration2. Acceleration3. Re-Pricing
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5 A Closer Look At Spreads & Base Correlation Moves 2
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6 IG Spreads
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7 CDX 5Y Base Correlation Jun-07Aug-07Sep-07Mar-08
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8 Lack of 22-100 bid The Loss Fraction
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9 Correlation Trading and Risk Management Challenges 3
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10 Some new Trading challenges 1.High spread volatility: price should take into account the cost of rebalancing the hedges 2.As a consequence, for higher gamma tranches: the CDS replication strategy leads to more volatile results (mainly equities and super-senior). 3.Index calibration: fixed recovery assumption does not enable proper calibration with standard recovery levels (otherwise the capital structure is not arbitrage free anymore) 4.Extreme super-senior correlation levels lead to highly spread discriminant models and less appropriate delta
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11 Trading challenges (2) spread The single name convexity for super-senior gets inappropriate for high correlation levels … (30% difference for a spread moving from 250 to 300…)
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12 Models Today’s popular correlation models Gaussian Copula Gaussian Copula with Base Correlation Random Factor Loading (RFL) Parametric Models (RFL’s extension) Strike equivalent methods for bespoke Challenges for future models : Calibration of observed market levels (high super-senior spreads) Better replication strategy with current spread volatility Appropriate extension of the model to less observable bespoke portfolios Static models: No spread volatility input !
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13 Discussion 1.What are the new challenges for market participants (as asset managers of bespokes) ? 2.What are the first «quick wins» to improve correlation trading risk management ? (recovery, macro scenarios …) 3.What are the medium term developments ? (models) 4.How scalable and practical are they ? 5.Others ………
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