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Financial Risk Analytics by Donald R. van Deventer
Kenji Imai
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    • Product code: 4692
    • ISBN: 0786309644, ISBN13: 9780786309641, 396 pages, Disk + Hb
      Published by Irwin, 1st edition, 1997
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    Description of Financial Risk Analytics

    Financial Risk Analysis is the first book written by experience risk managers that is designed to explain, in comprehensive yet understandable terminology, the analytics of interest rate risk, credit rate risk, foreign exchange risk and capital allocation from A to Z. Risk management experts Donald R. van Deventer and Kenji Imai show in a very practical, concrete way how the term structure models used to price interest rate derivatives can be used to hedge all common products in banking, insurance and investment management, allowing the same risk management approach for an entire institution that is normally taken for a derivatives portfolio alone.

    Financial Risk Analytics allows you to develop a comprehensive understanding of this complex subject, including:

    The basics of present value, forward rates and interest rate compounding.
    American fixed income option vs. European options.
    The wide variety of alternative term structure models to the basic Vasicek model.

    Bridging the gap between the idealized assumptions used for valuation and the realities that must be reflected in management actions.

    Financial institution risk management is a complex, highly technical pursuit that is often difficult to grasp. The result can be choosing ineffective risk management techniques over superior counterparts, or completely missing the mark on meaningful risk management altogether. Financial Risk Analytics introduces and expands upon prevalent market theories. It is indispensable in its common-sense approach to risk management in today's environment.

    Contents of Financial Risk Analytics

    1. Fixed-Income Mathematics
    Price, Accrued Interest, and Value
    Present Value
    Compound Interest Conventions and Formulas
    Yields and Yield-to-Maturity Calculations
    Calculating Forward Interest Rates and Bond Prices
    Summary

    2. Yield Curve Smoothing
    Cubic Spline Yield Smoothing
    Cubic Spline Price Smoothing
    Maximum Smoothness Forward Rates
    Smoothing Coupon-Bearing Bond Data or Other Data
    Conclusion
    Appendix: Proof of the Theorem

    3. Duration and Convexity: The Traditional Risk Management Tools
    Macaulay's Duration: The Original Formula
    Using Duration for Hedging
    Duration: The Market Convention
    The Perfect Hedge: The Difference between the Original Macaulay and Conventional Durations
    Convexity and its Uses
    Conclusion

    4. Duration as a Term Structure Model
    What Is a Term Structure Model and Why Do We Need One?
    The Vocabulary of Term Structure Models
    Ito's Lemma
    Ito's Lemma for More than One Random Variable
    Using Ito's Lemma to Build a Term Structure Model
    Duration as a Term Structure Model
    Conclusions about the Use of Duration's Parallel Shift Assumptions

    5. The Vasicek and Extended Vasicek Models
    The Merton Model
    The Extended Merton Model
    The Vasicek Model
    The Extended Vasicek/Hull and White Model
    An Example of the Hedging Implications of Tier Structure Models Compared to the Duration Approach
    Conclusion

    6. Risk-Neutral Interest Rates and European Options on Bonds
    An Introduction to Risk-Neutral Interest Rates and the No-Arbitrage Assumption
    Relationship between the Expected Short Rate, Expected Risk-Neutral Short Rate, and Forward Rates
    A General Valuation Formula for Valuation of Interest-Rate-Related Securities in the Vasicek Model
    Derivation of the Closed-Form Valuation Formula
    The Value of European Options on a Zero Coupon Bond
    European Puts on Zero Coupon Bonds
    Options on Coupon-Bearing Bonds
    An Example

    7. Forward and Futures Contracts
    Forward Contracts on Zero Coupon Bonds
    Forward Rate Agreements
    Eurodollar Futures-type Forward Contracts
    Futures on Zero Coupon Bonds: The Sydney Futures Exchange Bank Bill Contract
    Futures on Coupon-Bearing Bonds: Example Using the SIMEX Japanese Government Bond Future
    Eurodollar, Euroyen, and Euromark Futures Contracts

    8. European Options on Forward and Futures Contracts
    Valuing Options on Forwards and Futures
    European Options on Forward Contacts on Zero Coupon Bonds
    European Options on Forward Rate Agreements
    European Options on a Eurodollar Futures-type Forward Contract
    European Options on Futures on Zero Coupon Bonds
    European Options on Futures on Coupon-Bearing Bonds
    Options on Eurodollar, Euroyen, and Euromark Futures Contracts

    9. Caps and Floors
    Introduction to Caps and Floors
    Caps as European Options on Forward Rate Agreements
    Forming Other Cap-Related Securities

    10. Interest Rate Swaps and Swaptions
    Introduction to Interest Rate Swaps
    Valuing the Floated-Rate Payment on a Swap
    The Observable Fixed Rate in the Swap Market
    An Introduction to Swaptions
    Valuation of European Swaptions
    Valuation of American Swaptions

    11. Exotic Swap and Option Structures
    Introduction to Exotic Swaps and Options
    Arrears Swaps
    Digital Options
    Digital Range Notes
    Range Floaters
    Min-Max Floaters
    Other Derivative Securities

    12. American Fixed-Income Options
    Introduction to American Options
    An Overview of Numerical Techniques for Fixed-Income Option Valuation
    Monte Carlo Simulation
    Finite Difference Methods
    Binomial Lattices
    Bushy Trees
    Trinomial Lattices
    Valuing Securities on the Lattice: European and American Calls

    13. Irrational Exercise of Fixed-Income Options
    Irrationality
    Analysis of Irrationality Criteria for a Powerful Explanation
    The Transactions Cost Approach
    Irrational Exercise of European Options
    Valuing a Zero Coupon Bond with an Irrationality Exercised Embedded Call Option
    The Irrational Exercise of American Options
    Implied Irrationality and Hedging

    14. Mortgage-Backed Securities
    Introduction to the Analysis of Mortgage-Backed Securities
    Prepayment Speeds and the Valuation of Mortgages
    Constant Prepayment Speeds as a Principal Amortization Assumption
    Fitting Actual GNMA Data with a Single Prepayment Speed Model
    Can We Forecast Prepayment Rates?
    Option-Adjusted Spread
    The Transactions Cost Approach to Prepayments
    Implications for OAV Spread, CMOs, and ARMs

    15. Nonmaturity Deposits
    An Introduction to Nonmaturity Deposits
    The 'Value' of the Deposit Franchise
    Total Cash Flow of Nonmaturity Deposits
    Deposit Valuation with Constant Balances or Known Variation in Balances
    Random Deposit Balances with Constant Interest Rates
    The Valuation of Deposits Whose Rates and Balances Vary with Open-Market rates
    Using the Jarrow-van Deventer Formula in Practice
    Appendix: Derivation of Valuation Formulas in Section 15.5 (Random Deposits Balances with Constant Interest Rates)

    16. The Valuation of Risky Debt
    Introduction to the Value of Risky Debt
    The Merton Model of Risky Debt
    Risky Debt with Stochastic Interest Rates
    Implications of the Valuation of Risky Debt
    Other Approaches to the Valuation of Risky Debt

    17. Foreign Exchange Markets: A Term Structure Model Approach
    Introduction to Foreign Exchange Forwards and Options
    Foreign Exchange Forwards
    Foreign Exchange Options
    Implications of a Term Structure Model-Based FX Options Formula
    Improved Accuracy of the Stochastic Interest Rate FX Model
    Extensions of the Stochastic Interest Rate Approach to Foreign Currency-Related Securities Pricing

    18. Alternative Term Structure Models
    Introduction to Alternative Term Structure Models
    Alternative One-Factor Interest Rate Models
    Two-Factor Interest Rate Models
    The Heath, Jarrow, and Morton Approach
    Term Structure Model Selection

    19. Estimating the Parameters of Term Structure Models
    Introduction to the Estimation of Term Structure Model Parameters
    Traditional Academic Approach
    Volatility Curve Approach
    Advanced Volatility Curve Approach
    Implied Parameters from an Observable Yield Curve
    The Best Approach
    Hedging and Risk Measurement
    Introduction to Hedging and Risk Measurement
    Portfolio Selection: What Assets Should We Sell and What Assets Should We Buy?
    What Level of Risk Maximizes Shareholder Value?
    How Should the Aggregate Level of Risk Be Measured? The Best Hedge
    Performance Evaluation: Which Managers Did Well?
    Risk-Adjusted Return on Capital
    Summing Up

    Index


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