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Day 1: Latest Developments: Collateralized Debt Obligations
- Evolution of CDO correlation models:
- Gaussian copula; base correlations; extensions
- Modeling correlations by dynamic conditioning
- Pricing concentration bespoke tranches
- Temporal aggregation of realized correlation
- Optimal dynamic hedging in a dynamic spread-default environment
- Modelling portfolio credit derivatives - trading applications
- Credit option strategies - trading strategies used by market participants and structured products built around them
- CDOs in a portfolio context - how to integrate CDOs into the overall asset allocation process
Presenters:
Claudio Albanese: Bloomberg LP, New York & Imperial College London
Lorenzo Isla: Head - CDO / Structured Credit Research, Barclays Capital
Vivek Kapoor: Executive Director, UBS Investment Bank
Richard Martin: Director, Head of Quantitative Credit Strategy, Credit Suisse
Day 2: Pricing Issues in Structured Credit
- Structural models and asset correlation
- Pricing of synthetic CDO tranches
- Implementing Copula models, analytical and Monte Carlo pricing
- Pricing bespoke portfolios
- Copula Skew Models
- CPDOs
- Models forGap Risk
- Advanced Models and Exotic CDOs
Presenter:
Jon Gregory: Global Head of Credit Derivatives Research, Barclays Capital
Day 3: Pricing Models for Credit Hybrid Securities
- Hybrid risk factorcomponent
- Dependency between credit risk and hybrid risk
- Intensity-based models
- Copula models: How to incorporate external risk factors into a default-time model
- Credit Equity Hybrids
- Credit interest-rate hybrids
- Credit FX hybrids
- Credit Commodity hybrids
Presenter:
Philipp Schönbucher: Assistant Professor, Risk Management, (ETH) Zurich
Day 4: Credit Correlation: Interpolation, Extrapolation and Dynamics
- Credit Correlation: Interpolation, Extrapolation and Dynamics
- Problems with Base Correlation
- Implied Loss Surfaces
- Mapping Correlation on Bespoke Portfolios
- Dynamical Loss Models for next Generation Products
- Testing the Mapping Methods: iTraxx vs CDX
- Hints at CPDO's and Pool Spread Dynamics
Presenters:
Damiano Brigo: Head of Credit Models, Banca IM
Roberto Torresetti: Quantitative Analyst, Banca IMI
Day 5: Credit CPPI & CPDOs
- The CPPI structure in the equity world
- The CPPI in the credit universe
- Characteristics of a CPPI strategy
- Designing a CPPI correlation trade
- Fully-managed Credit CPPIs
- Credit spread / Jump-to-default / Credit correlation
- Practical Calibration of the Models
- CPDOs
Presenters:
Jerome Brun: Head of Quantitative Credit Research, Société Générale
Julien Turc: Head of Quantitative Credit Strategy, Société Générale
Location:
Jurys Clifton Ford Hotel
47 Welbeck Street
London W1G 8DN
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