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Presenter: Pat Hagan: Head, Quantitative Analytics, Chief Investment Office, JP Morgan
09:00 – 10:30: Managing Smile Risk
- Swap market basics and delta trading
- Vanilla interest rate options and managing vega risk
- Theory of Dupire and local vol models
- The SABR model, vanna, volga and managing smile risk
- Levy based models
10.30 - 10.45 Morning Break
10:45 – 12:30: Managing Exotic Interest rate Products
- Key interest rate risks
- Calibration/pricing/hedging cycle
- Models for exotics
HJM models
BGM models
Short rate models
Markovian models
- Summary
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15.15: Practical Pricing of Exotics
- Auto-calibration/global calibration
- LGM model
- Calibration strategy and choice of calibration instruments
- Example: calibration and pricing Bermudan swaption
- Price, risks, hedging and the calibration instruments
- Extension to other callable exotics
Callable Inverse Floaters, Superfloaters, Range Notes and Captions
15.15 - 15.30 Afternoon break
15:30 – 17:15: Pricing Callable Range Notes
- Adjusters and risk migration
The need for risk migration
Adjusters
Adjusted price
- Callable range notes
Deal definition
LGM model (reprise)
Convexity adjustment and payoff replication
Pricing with adjusters
Swaption and caplet risks
Day 1: Interest Rate Modelling: Pricing, Hedging & Calibration Techniques | Day 2: Interest Rate Modelling | Day 3: Interest Rate Exotic & FX Hybrid Products | Details: | download pdf
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09:00 - 11:00 Mathematical Theory of Interest Rate Term Structure Dynamics and Calibration
Presenters: Dorje C. Brody: Reader in Mathematics, Imperial College London & Lane P Hughston: Professor of Financial Mathematics, King's College London
- Overview of the pricing kernel methodologies
- Dynamics of discount bonds, HJM equations
- The volatility structure approach: pros and cons
- Conditional variance representation for the pricing kernel
- Parametrisation and calibration of interest rate dynamics
- The role of Wiener chaos expansion in term-structure calibration
- First and second chaos models
- Interest rate options
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:45: Least Squares Importance Sampling for Libor Market Models
Luca Capriotti: Vice President, Global Modelling and Analytics Group, Credit Suisse Investment Banking Division
- Monte Carlo simulations. Basics
- Importance Sampling and Stratified Sampling
- Least Square Importance Sampling (LSIS) & Effective Stratification
- Simulating Libor Market Models
- Examples & Numerical Results
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 15:15 Markov Functional Models (including Multi-Currency, Multi-Factor and Forward Smile)
Presenter: Simon Johnson: Co-head of Credit and Interest Rate Financial Engineering, Commerzbank
- Introduction to Markov Functional Models
- 1-factor Markov Functional Models: the Hunt-Kennedy-Pelsser calibration method
- Markov Functional models and forward smile
- Cross-currency Markov Functional models and preserving the driftless condition
- Multi-factor Markov Functional models and generalising the driving process
15:15 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 CMS & CMS Spread Options
Presenter: Julien Turc: Quantitative Strategy, Société Générale
- Relative value
- Pricing & modelling of correlation copula models Markovian projection
- Swaptions arbitrage
- Wedges
Day 1: Interest Rate Modelling: Pricing, Hedging & Calibration Techniques | Day 2: Interest Rate Modelling | Day 3: Interest Rate Exotic & FX Hybrid Products | Details: | download pdf
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09:00 - 10:30 Cross Currency Models
Presenter: Messaoud Chibane
Examples of typical products
- Two economy Libor Market Model
- Two economy Hull and White with FX skew
History of FX model for long dated structures
- Cross-Currency Libor Market Models
- Modelling the long-dated FX smile
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Long Dated FX Hybrids
Presenter: Dherminder Kainth: QuARC, Royal Bank of Scotland
- PRDC and FX Tarn payoffs
- The Heston model for stochastic volatility & efficient simulation of the Heston sde.
- FX barriers, stochastic skew and multifactor Heston. Calibrating the stochastic skew.
- Longdated FX models; Extending multifactor Heston model for pricing long dated FX options
- Some results
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Exotic Interest Rate Pricing with Trees
Presenter: Michael Roehl: Head of Fixed Income Quantitative Research, Lloyds TSB
Gaussian Model and Extensions
- Parameters and Interpretation
- Skew Modelling
- Instantaneous vs. Terminal correlation
- Approximate Solutions for Calibration
Pricing Exotics
- Local vs Global Calibration
- Examples: Bermudans, Inverse Floaters and Range Accruals
- Path Dependency in Trees
- How to do it: Binning
- Smoothing and Examples
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:45 Wavelet Option Pricing
Presenter: Antonio Cosma: Université du Luxembourg
General Pricing using the Green functions
- The Green function as pricing operator
- Projection of the Green operator on a wavelet basis
Implementation:
- Black and Scholes case
- Heston case
Application to the pricing of bermudan options
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Location:
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47 Welbeck Street
London W1G 8DN
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