Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives / Credit CPPI & Credit Hybrids
Venue: Central London
Location: Central London, United Kingdom
Event Date/Time: Dec 04, 2006 | End Date/Time: Dec 06, 2006 |
Description
Register to ANY ONE day TWO days or all THREE days of the workshop
Register to ANY TWO days of the workshop and receive £200 discount
Register to ALL THREE workshop days and receive £300 discount
Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives / Credit CPPI & Credit Hybrids Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 27/28/29th March 2006
Central London
Day 1: Credit Derivatives: From Basic - Hybrids Workshop
Presenter: Philipp Schönbucher, Assistant Professor, Risk Management, (ETH) Zurich
Topics Covered:
• Single-Name Credit Risk Models
• Term structures of hazard rates and credit spreads, implied survival probabilities
• Structural models, Merton, Black-Cox, Credit-Equity hybrids and latest developments in structural models.
• Portfolio Credit Risk Models
• Basic model-free Single-Tranche CDO pricing relationships
• Copula models, Gauss copula, the market standard model, implied correlation.
• Numerical techniques for factor models: Convolution, Fast Fourier Transforms
• Numerical techniques for simulation models: Importance sampling, sensitivities with Likelihood-ratio methods
Day 2: Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives Modelling Techniques
Presenters:
Jon Gregory: Global Credit Derivatives: Barclays Capital
Lutz Schloegl: Fixed Income Quantitative Research, Lehman Brothers
Topics Covered:
• Complete overview of Modelling Correlation Skews
• The Gaussian Copula Model and Beyond
• Correlation Market Dynamics and Skew Models
• A Correlation Skew Model with Sensible Dynamics
• Comparing Base Correlation with Market Dynamics
• Latest developments in CDOs
• Bespoke CDO Pricing- Determining the Correlation Skew from Portfolio Composition
Day 3: Latest Developments: Credit CPPI & Credit Hybrid Products
Presenters:
Rishad Ahluwalia Structured Products Research, JPMorgan Securities
Claudio Albanese: Chair of Mathematical Finance, Imperial College London
Didier Campant: Credit Structurer, Associate Director, BNP Paribas
Philipp Schönbucher, Assistant Professor, Risk Management, (ETH) ZURICH
Topics Covered:
• Market overview of Credit CPPI
• Portfolio Insurance Strategies and CDOs
• An introduction to Credit SPI/CPPI
• The Loss-Market-Model: Pricing Portfolio-Credit - Interest-Rate Hybrids and exotic Portfolio Credit Derivatives
• Applications of the Model: Forward-starting CDOs, Options on Indices, Options on Tranches, Hybrid Products with Credit Correlation Components.
• Dynamic Credit Correlation Models and Hybrids
• Intrinsic Credit-Equity Hybrids: EDSs and Convertible Bonds
• Extrinsic Hybrids: Mezzanine Swaps and Credit Linked Options
Day 1: Credit Derivatives: From Basic - Hybrids Workshop
08:30 – 17:00 Philipp Schönbucher, Assistant Professor, Risk Management, (ETH) ZURICH
Single-Name Credit Risk Models:
• Term structures of hazard rates and credit spreads, implied survival probabilities
• Reduced-form models, the Cox Process approach
• Structural models, Merton, Black-Cox, Credit-Equity hybrids and latest developments in structural models.
Portfolio Credit Risk Models:
• Basic model-free Single-Tranche CDO pricing relationships
• Model-free representation of arbitrage-free loss distributions.
• Copula models, Gauss copula, the market standard model, implied correlation.
• Multivariate intensity models, joint Cox process assumptions, factor-structures in multivariate intensity models
• Numerical techniques for factor models: Convolution, Fast Fourier Transforms
• Numerical techniques for simulation models: Importance sampling, sensitivities with Likelihood-ratio methods
Day 2: Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives Modelling Techniques
08:30 – 11:45 Jon Gregory: Barclays Capital
3 Hours
The Correlation Skew and Correlation Modelling
• The Gaussian Copula Model and Beyond
• The Correlation Skew and Base Correlations
• Why Do We Want a Skew Model?
• Local and Stochastic Correlations
• Hedging and Risk Management Considerations
10:30 – 10:45 Break
11:45 – 15:15 David Shelton: Citigroup
2 hours 30 minutes
Latest developments in CDOs
• Bespoke CDO Pricing- Determining the Correlation Skew from Portfolio Composition
• Tranche Forwards and Options
• Leveraged Supersenior- Market Triggers on Spread and Loss.
• Spread based models- What characteristics should the model have?
• Systemic and Idiosyncratic Risk Factors.
• Implications for Hedging
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
15:15 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:30 Dominic O’Kane: Lehman Brothers
2 hours
Correlation Market Dynamics and Skew Models
• Base correlation: the good, the bad and the ugly
• Comparing base correlation with market dynamics
• Proper skew models
• A correlation skew model with sensible dynamics
Cocktail Party 17:30 – 19:30
Day 3: Latest Developments: Credit CPPI / Hybrid Products
08:30 – 09:45 Didier Campant: BNP Paribas
1 Hour 15 Minutes
Market overview of Credit CPPI
• Product description
• Strategies
• Gap risk challenges: Pricing and Risk Management
• Perspectives
09:45 – 11:00 Rishad Ahluwalia: JP Morgan Securities
1 Hour 15 Minutes
Portfolio Insurance Strategies and CDOs
• An introduction to Credit SPI/CPPI
• Underlying credit risky strategies
• Pay-off profiles for CDO tranches
• Risk management issues
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 14:45 Philipp Schönbucher: (ETH) ZURICH
2 Hours 30 Minutes
The Loss-Market-Model: Pricing Portfolio-Credit - Interest-Rate Hybrids and exotic Portfolio Credit Derivatives
• Requirements of index-option pricing
• A concise representation of the full loss distribution
• Calibration to the correlation smile
• Equipping the loss distribution with arbitrage-free dynamics
• Parametrisation of the dynamics: Stochastic spreads
• Adding interest-rate dynamics
• Discrete-Time Representation with simply compounded transition rates
• Applications of the model: Forward-starting CDOs, options on indices, options on tranches, hybrid products with credit correlation components.
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
14:45 – 17:30 Claudio Albanese: Imperial College London
2 Hours 30 Minutes
Dynamic credit correlation models and hybrids
• Credit barrier models on functional lattices
• Intrinsic credit-equity hybrids: EDSs and convertible bonds
• High dimensional lattice models for CDOs
• Stochastic volatility models, correlation risk and vega risk
• Extrinsic hybrids: mezzanine swaps and credit linked options
15:30 – 15:45 Break