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Day 1: The LMM-SABR Model: The New Paradigm for Pricing, Calibrating, Hedging Interest-Rate Derivatives Modelling in the Presence of Smiles: Riccardo Rebonato |  |
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Presenter: Presenter: Riccardo Rebonato: Global Head of Market Risk & Global Head of Quantitative Research, Royal Bank of Scotland
The LIBOR Market Model framework (deterministic volatility)
- Deriving the Drifts of the Forward Rates
- Specifying the volatility
- Specifying the correlation
- Calibrating
The SABR Model
- Pricing formulae
- Special Cases
- Qualitative Hedging Behaviour
- Pitfalls
Combining LMM and SABR
- Deriving the Drifts of the Forward Rates
- Deriving the Drifts of the Volatilities
- Analytical Approximation to Swaption Prices
Calibrating
- Calibrating the Volatility Function
- Calibrating the Volatility of Volatility
- Calibrating the Correlation Structure
- When to use to Implied Approach and When to Use the Historical Approach
Empirical Evidence
- Estimating the Volatilities
- Estimating the Volatility of Volatility
- Estimating the Correlation Structure
- Statistical Behaviour of Fitted Parameters, and How to Use This Information for Hedging
Hedging
- Hedging under Normal Market Conditions: How to Quantify the Exposure to Level, Slope and Curvature of the Smile
- Hedging under Conditions of Market Turmoil
Day schedule: 09:00 – 17:00
Break: 10:30 – 10:45
Lunch: 12:30 – 13:30
Break: 15:15 – 15:30
Day 1: The LMM-SABR Model: The New Paradigm for Pricing, Calibrating, Hedging Interest-Rate Derivatives Modelling in the Presence of Smiles: Riccardo Rebonato | Day 2: Interest Rate Modelling & Interest Rate Exotic & Hybrid Products | Day 3: Interest Rate Modelling & Interest Rate Exotic & Hybrid Products | Details: | download pdf
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09.00 - 10.30: Analytical Formulas for Pricing CMS Products in the LMM Model
Presenter: Alexandre Antonov: Senior Quantitative Analyst, NumeriX
- Simultaneous calibration to European swaptions and European CMS products
- Approximation of the European CMS products for the BGM SV model: basic idea
- Case studies:
Approximation of the CMS swaps and CMS caps
Approximation of the CMS spread options
- Numerical experiments
10.30 - 10.45 Break
10.45 - 12.30 Numerical Methods for Markov Functional Models and Their Stability
Presenter: Jochen Theis, Head of Quantitative Risk Management EMEA, Merrill Lynch
- Markov functional models
- General approach to implementation
- Examples of stability issues
- Accuracy estimation and consequences
- Stable numerical schemes
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00: Theory of Interest Rate Term Structure: Dynamics and Calibration with Stochastic Volatility
Presenters: Dorje C. Brody: Reader in Mathematics, Imperial College London & Lane P Hughston: Professor of Financial Mathematics, Imperial 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
- Parameterisation and calibration of interest rate dynamics
- Use of chaos expansions in term-structure calibration
- New interest rate models with stochastic volatility
- Pricing interest rate derivatives
- Applications to foreign exchange and FX derivatives
- Macroeconomic models
15.00 - 15.15 Break
15.15 - 17.15: Adjusters, Internal Adjusters, and Pricing Callable Exotics
Presenter: Pat Hagan: Head, Quantitative Analytics, Chief Investment Office, JP Morgan
- Need for risk migrators
- External adjusters
- Rationale for internal adjustors
- Example: Callable range notes
- Extension to other callable exotic
Day 1: The LMM-SABR Model: The New Paradigm for Pricing, Calibrating, Hedging Interest-Rate Derivatives Modelling in the Presence of Smiles: Riccardo Rebonato | Day 2: Interest Rate Modelling & Interest Rate Exotic & Hybrid Products | Day 3: Interest Rate Modelling & Interest Rate Exotic & Hybrid Products | Details: | download pdf
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09.00 - 11.00: Interest Rate Exotics and GPU Computing
Presenter: Claudio Albanese, Independent Consultant
- Stochastic monetary policy models
- Operator methods and GPU coprocessors
- Implementing backward induction
- Optimization algorithms for calibration
- Calibration against swaptions, exotic baskets and correlation data
- Benchmarking against market models and methods with adjustors
- System design on multi-GPU equipment
- Bermudans and callable CMS spread options
- Monte Carlo methods and variance reduction schemes
- Modeling correlations and multicurrency exotics
11.00 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 12.45: Valuing and Trading Interest Rate Derivatives in a Short Rate Model with Stochastic Volatility
Presenter: Julien Turc: Head of Quantitative Strategy, Société Générale
- A model with Heston volatility
- Solving the model and pricing options
- How the model simulates changes in the curve and in the volatility surface
- Estimating the model
- Historical and relative value analysis
12.45 - 13.45 Lunch
13.45 - 15.15: Stochastic Interest Rates for Local Volatility Hybrids Models
Presenter: Eric Benhamou: CEO, Pricing Partners
- Bias for local volatility model with stochastic Interest rates
- Reduced form for hull and white type models
- Impact on local volatility
- Numerical results and fast calibration
15.15 - 15.30: Break
15.30 - 17.00: Pricing Long-Dated Derivatives with Stochastic Interest Rates and Stochastic Volatility
Presenter: Roger Lord: Quantitative Analyst/Associate Director, Rabobank International
- Examples of long-dated structures
- Incorporating stochastic interest rates in stochastic volatility models
- The Schöbel-Zhu-Hull-White (SZHW) model
- The SZHW Fx model
- Efficient simulation within the Schöbel-Zhu and SZHW models
Day 1: The LMM-SABR Model: The New Paradigm for Pricing, Calibrating, Hedging Interest-Rate Derivatives Modelling in the Presence of Smiles: Riccardo Rebonato | Day 2: Interest Rate Modelling & Interest Rate Exotic & Hybrid Products | Day 3: Interest Rate Modelling & Interest Rate Exotic & Hybrid Products | Details: | download pdf
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Day 1: The LMM-SABR Model: The New Paradigm for Pricing, Calibrating, Hedging Interest-Rate Derivatives Modelling in the Presence of Smiles: Riccardo Rebonato | Day 2: Interest Rate Modelling & Interest Rate Exotic & Hybrid Products | Day 3: Interest Rate Modelling & Interest Rate Exotic & Hybrid Products | Details: | download pdf