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Default Correlation: Principles and Pricing in EXCEL™

LEVEL: ADVANCED LEVEL # #


Know the fundamentals of pricing basket products
Know the principles of Single Tranche CDO coverage

Credit risk - Advanced
Discounting risky cash flows - Advanced
Default event correlation - Advanced
Delta hedge and gamma - Intermediate

Concrete and operational approach to correlation
Elaborate a Monte Carlo pricer

Fund managers
Interest rate and credit traders
Interest rate and credit structurers
Salespeople and financial intermediaries
Middle office staff
Internal controls, audit
Risk departments
Institutional investors


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CDOs: Mechanisms and Uses
Cash CDO and synthetic CDO
Arbitrage CDO and balance sheet CDO
Types of collateral: bond, loan, ABS, squared CDO
Single tranche or Bespoke CDOs
Index tranches (iTraxx)
Risk Analysis and Pricing
Default risk
Spread risk
Correlation risk
Pricing CDOs using Gaussian copulas
Practical Workshop
. Value a CDO tranche using the Monte Carlo method in EXCEL™
Introduction to CDO Hedging and Trading
Effects of various parameters
(credit spreads, correlation, instantaneous default, etc.)
Delta hedging
Spread convexity and gamma
Base correlation
Correlation trading
Case Study
. Long Equity/Short Mezzanine strategies


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DATES AND PRICES:
London:
08 Jun 2010(closed)
13 Oct 2010


Prices: 1,175 £


New York:
Date to be confirmed
Prices: 1,600 US$


Hong Kong:
Date to be confirmed
Prices: 1,850 US$


 


DURATION:
1 day

 

REFERENCE: gbcorrelation

 

 


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