Performance of Dynamic Hedging Strategies: The Tale of Two Trading Desks

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ales Cerny
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice Gaillardetz ◽  
Samia El Khoury

Abstract Equity-Indexed Annuity products (EIAs) are becoming increasingly popular as they are accumulation vehicles that offer participation in the equity market growth while keeping the initial capital protected. This paper focuses in particular on a special type of EIAs; the Compound Ratchet (CR). Sellers of this product retain the right to change one of the pricing parameters on each contract anniversary date while promising not to cross a certain predetermined threshold. Changing these parameters can sometimes have an impact on the value of the EIA, which makes them interesting to study. In order to reproduce the pattern of these changing parameters, a new approach of dynamically hedging the CR EIA and simultaneously protecting the issuer from hedging risk is proposed and tested. Trading can only be done in discrete time, which produces hedging errors. Therefore, the new approach is applied to transfer these errors from the issuer to the buyer by dynamically changing the pricing parameters. The distribution of these parameters is extracted and analyzed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuan-Min Wang ◽  
Thanh-Binh Nguyen Thi ◽  
Yuan-Ming Lee

AbstractThis paper uses the panel data of 15 countries from 2009 to 2020 to construct the time-varying parameter panel vector error correction model for testing the hypothesis of dynamic hedging characteristics of gold on exchange rate. As the existing literature has never considered that the foreign exchange risk hedged by gold is dynamic, this study can fill the research gap in this area. The empirical results show that: First, gold can partly hedge against the depreciation of the currency in the long run; second, gold is unable to hedge against the risk of the exchange rate when considering dynamic hedging effects in the short run; third, when facing unexpected shocks, the impulse response shows that the gold returns have reversible reactions compared to exchange rate fluctuations; therefore, gold can regard as a safe haven for foreign exchange markets; Finally, the government, as well as investors should always be concerned about these dynamic risks and formulate effective hedging strategies to control the currency uncertainty.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Sebastian Becker ◽  
Patrick Cheridito ◽  
Arnulf Jentzen

In this paper we introduce a deep learning method for pricing and hedging American-style options. It first computes a candidate optimal stopping policy. From there it derives a lower bound for the price. Then it calculates an upper bound, a point estimate and confidence intervals. Finally, it constructs an approximate dynamic hedging strategy. We test the approach on different specifications of a Bermudan max-call option. In all cases it produces highly accurate prices and dynamic hedging strategies with small replication errors.


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