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Introduction | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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The Relative Pricing of Fixed Income Securities with Fixed Cash Flows | |
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Bond Prices, Discount Factors, and Arbitrage | |
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The Time Value of Money | |
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Treasury Bond Quotations | |
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Discount Factors The Law of One Price | |
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Arbitrage and the Law of One Price.Treasury STRIPS | |
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Deriving the Replicating Portfolio | |
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Application: Treasury Triplets and High Coupon Bonds | |
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Bond Prices, Spot Rates, and Forward Rates | |
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Semiannual Compounding | |
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Spot Rates | |
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Forward Rates | |
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Maturity and Bond Price Maturity and Bond return | |
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Treasury STRIPS, Continued | |
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The Relation between Spot and Forward Rates and the Slope of the Term Structure | |
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Yield-to-Maturity | |
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Definition and Interpretation | |
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Yield-to-Maturity and Spot Rates | |
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Yield-to-Maturity and Relative Value: The Coupon Effect | |
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Yield-to-Maturity and Realized return | |
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Generalizations and Curve Fitting | |
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Accrued Interest | |
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Compounding Conventions | |
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Yield and Compounding Conventions | |
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Bad Days | |
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Introduction to Curve Fitting | |
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Piecewise Cubics | |
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Application: Fitting the Term Structure in the U.S. Treasury Market on February 15, 2001 | |
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Trading Case Study: A 7s-8s-9s Butterfly | |
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Continuous Compounding | |
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A Simple Cubic Spline | |
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Measures of Price Sensitivity and Hedging | |
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One-Factor Measures of Price Sensitivity DV01 | |
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A Hedging Example, Part I: Hedging a Call Option | |
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Duration | |
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Convexity | |
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A Hedging Example, Part II: A Short Convexity Position | |
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Estimating Price Changes and Returns with DV01, Duration, and Convexity | |
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Convexity in the Investment and Asset-Liability Management Contexts | |
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Measuring the Price Sensitivity of Portfolios | |
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A Hedging Example, Part III: The Negative Convexity of Callable Bonds | |
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Measures of Price Sensitivity Based on Parallel Yield Shifts | |
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Yield-Based DV01 | |
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Modified and Macaulay Duration | |
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Zero Coupon Bonds and a Reinterpretation of Duration | |
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Par Bonds and Perpetuities | |
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Duration, DV01, Maturity, and Coupon: A Graphical Analysis | |
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Duration, DV01, and Yield | |
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Yield-Based Convexity | |
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Yield-Based Convexity of Zero Coupon Bonds | |
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The Barbell versus the Bullet | |
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Key Rate and Bucket Exposures | |
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Key Rate Shifts | |
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Key Rate 01s and Key Rate Durations | |
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Hedging with Key Rate Exposures | |
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Choosing Key Rates | |
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Bucket Shifts and Exposures | |
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Immunization | |
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Multi-Factor Exposures and Risk Management | |
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Regression-Based Hedging | |
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Volatility-Weighted Hedging | |
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One-Variable Regression-Based Hedging | |
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Two-Variable Regression-Based Hedging | |
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Trading Case Study: The Pricing of the 20-Year U.S. Treasury Sector | |
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A Comment on Level Regressions | |
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Term Structure Models | |
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The Science of Term Structure Models | |
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Rate and Price Trees | |
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Arbitrage Pricing of Derivatives | |
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Risk-Neutral Pricing | |
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Arbitrage Pricing in a Multi-Period Setting | |
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Example: Pricing a CMT Swap | |
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Reducing the Time Step | |
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Fixed Income versus Equity Derivatives | |
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The Short-Rate Process and the Shape of the Term Structure | |
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Expectations | |
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Volatility and Convexity | |
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Risk Premium | |
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A Mathematical Description of Expectations, Convexity, and Risk Premium | |
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Application: Expectations, Convexity, and Risk Premium in the U.S. Treasury Market on February 15, 2001 | |
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Proofs of Equations (10.19) and (10.25) | |
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The Art of Term Structure Models: Drift | |
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Normally Distributed Rates, Zero Drift: Model 1 | |
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Drift and Risk Premium: Model 2 | |
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Time-Dependent Drift: The Ho-Lee Model | |
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Desirability of Fitting to the Term Structure | |
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Mean Reversion: The Vasicek (1977) Model | |
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The Art of Term Structure Models: Volatility and Distribution | |
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Time-Dependent Volatility: Model 3 | |
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Volatility as a Function of the Short Rate: The Cox-Ingersoll-Ross and Lognormal Models | |
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Tree for the Original Salomon Brothers Model | |
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A Lognormal Model with Mean Reversion: The Black-Karasinski Model | |
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Selected List of One-Factor Term Structure Models | |
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Closed-Form Solutions for Spot Rates | |
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Multi-Factor Term Structure Models | |
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Motivation from Principal Components | |
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A Two-Factor Model | |
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Tree Implementation | |
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Properties of the Two-Factor Model | |
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Other Two-Factor and Multi-Factor Modeling Approaches | |
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Closed-Form Solution for Spot Rates in the Two-Factor Model | |
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Trading with Term Structure Models | |
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Example Revisited: Pricing a CMT Swap | |
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Option-Adjusted Spread | |
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Profit and Loss (P&L) Attribution | |
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P&L Attributions for a Position in the CMT Swap | |
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Trading Case Study: Trading 2s-5s-10s in Swaps with a Two-Factor Model | |
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Fitting Model Parameters | |
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Hedging to the Model versus Hedging to the Market | |
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Selected Securities | |
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Repo | |
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Repurchase Agreements and Cash Management | |
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Repurchase Agreements and Financing Long Positions | |
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Reverse Repurchase Agreements and Short Positions Carry | |
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General Collateral and Specials | |
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Special Repo Rates and the Auction Cycle | |
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Liquidity Premiums of Recent Issues | |
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Application: Valuing a Bond Trading Special in Repo | |
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Application: Disruption in the Specials Market after September 11, 2001 | |
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Forward Contracts | |
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Definitions | |
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Forward Price of a Deposit or a Zero Coupon Bond | |
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Using Forwards to Hedge Borrowing Costs or Loan Proceeds | |
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Forward Price of a Coupon Bond | |
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Forward Yield and Forward DV01 | |
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Forward Prices with Intermediate Coupon Payments | |
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Value of a Forward Contract | |
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Forward Prices in a Term Structure Model | |
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Eurodollar and Fed Funds Futures | |
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LIBOR and Eurodollar Futures | |
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Hedging with Eurodollar Futures | |
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Tails: A Closer Look at Hedging with Futures | |
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Futures on Prices in a Term Structure Model | |
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Futures on Rates in a Term Structure Model | |
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The Futures-Forward Difference | |
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TED Spreads | |
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Application: Trading TED Spreads | |
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Fed Funds | |
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Fed Funds Futures | |
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Application: Fed Funds Contracts and Predicted Fed Action | |
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Hedging to Dates Not Matching Fed Funds and Eurodollar Futures Expirations | |
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Interest Rate Swaps | |
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Swap Cash Flows | |
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Valuation of Swaps | |
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Floating Rate Notes | |
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Valuation of Swaps, Continued | |
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Note on the Measurement of Fixed and Floating Interest Rate Risk | |
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Swap Spreads | |
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Major Uses of Interest Rate Swaps | |
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Asset Swap Spreads and Asset Swaps | |
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Trading Case Study: 30-Year FNMA Asset Swap Spreads | |
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On the Credit Risk of Swap Agreements | |
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Trading Case Study: Five-Year On-the-Run/Off-the-Run Spread of Spreads | |
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Fixed Income Options | |
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Definitions and Review | |
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Pricing American and Bermudan Bond Options in a Term Structure Model | |
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Application: FNMA 6.25s of July 19, 2011, and the Pricing of Callable Bonds | |
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Graphical Analysis of Callable Bond Pricing | |
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A Note on Yield-to-Call | |
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Swaptions, Caps, and Floors | |
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Quoting Prices with Volatility Measures in Fixed Income Options Markets | |
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Smile and Skew | |
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Note and Bond Futures | |
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Mechanics | |
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Cost of Delivery and the Determination of the Final Settlement Price | |
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Motivations for a Delivery Basket and Conversion Factors | |
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Imperfection of Conversion Factors and the Delivery Option at Expiration | |
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Gross and Net Basis | |
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Quality Option before Delivery | |
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Some Notes on Pricing the Quality Option in Term Structure Models | |
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Measures of Rate Sensitivity | |
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Timing Option | |
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End-of-Month Option | |
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Trading Case Study: November '08 Basis into TYM0 | |
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Mortgage-Backed Securities | |
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Basic Mortgage Mathematics | |
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Prepayment Option | |
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Overview of Mortgage Pricing Models | |
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Implementing Prepayment Models | |
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Price-Rate Curve of a Mortgage Pass-Through | |
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Application: Mortgage Hedging and the Directionality of Swap Spreads | |
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Mortgage Derivatives, IOs, and Pos | |
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Exercises | |
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References And Suggestions For Further Reading | |
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Index | |