Hedge Interest & Currency Rate Exposures
Training
In Tsim Sha Tsui (Hong Kong), Singapore ((Indicate)) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
*Indicative price
Original amount in USD:
$ 4,598
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This workshop gives you a framework for understanding how derivatives products are priced and structured by investors, hedgers and financial intermediaries for the purpose of hedging your financial exposures. Suitable for: Corporate Risk Managers, Corporate Treasury Professionals, Bank Treasury Professionals, Dealers, Capital Markets Professionals, Market Risk Managers, Credit Risk Managers, And support area specialists (i.e. audit, legal, trading and sales) who are required to structure, price and/or execute derivatives transactions on behalf of their clients
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Course review:
DAY 1
Review best practices utilized to identify financial risks and establish effective hedging policies
- Establish framework for identifying, measuring and managing exposure to financial risks
- Review current accounting requirements for calculating realized/unrealized gains and losses and impact in trading and non-trading accounts
- Discuss scope of financial risks and methodologies used for establishing exposure management policies and implementing more commonly used hedging techniques
- Discuss structure of derivatives markets and products, including current regulatory issues
Measuring, reporting and managing exposure to interest rate risks using forward derivative markets and products
- Perform basic yield curve analysis; calculate forward yield curves
- Identify and diagram interest rate risks in corporate debt portfolios
- Price and structure derivatives solutions for managing floating-rate debt using Libor forwards (FRA’s) and IR swaps
- Establish key links between FRA’s and IR swaps
- Discuss financial risks and termination techniques used for IR swap “unwinds”
Managing corporate debt portfolios using options on interest rates
- Price and structure derivative solutions using single and combined option strategies (caps and collars)
- Discuss limitations in pricing options using binomial models
- Discuss widely used options pricing methods and price sensitivities
- Define methods used for estimating volatility
DAY 2
Case Study: You will identify and analyze a corporate debt exposure, structure a series of appropriate derivative solutions and compare hedging results.
Managing corporate investment portfolios using asset swaps and forward starts
- Identify, diagram and label price sensitivities in bond investments to changes in yields
- Diagram and label how market risks on investments portfolios are transformed when hedged using IR swaps
- Review, structure and price asset swaps
- Review, structure and price forward start swaps
Enhancing yields on corporate investments using single and combined option strategies
- Structure, price and graph transformed exposures when combining long bond positions, IR swaps and options
- Graph and label yield enhancement on underlying long bond positions using single and combined option hedging strategies
- Discuss how mark-to-market process effects cost of hedge on non-cash assets and contingent liabilities
Case Study/Options Game: You will identify and analyze corporate debt exposures, structure and price a series of appropriate derivative solutions using an options pricing model and present their team findings.
DAY 3
Establish a framework for understanding how to measure, report and manage currency exposure
- Review structure of foreign exchange markets
- Discuss pricing conventions and quotation systems on FX rates
- Define net exchange position
- Review current revaluation methods and “mark-to-market” process
Hedging foreign currency receivables/payables using forward FX markets and products
- Review interest covered arbitrage hedging and pricing techniques to determine forward FX prices
- Graph and label currency hedges more commonly used by importers/exporters using forward outrights and NDF’s
- Discuss how underlying currency exposures are transformed when combined with OTC solutions
Hedging foreign currency borrowings/investments using cross-currency swaps
- Review structure of cross-currency swaps and discuss common uses for borrowers/investors
- Discuss cross-currency swap pricing techniques
Case Study: You will analyze, structure, price and compare a variety of hedges to address the needs of borrowers/investors in a multitude of different currencies
Hedging foreign currency receivables/payables using options on foreign exchange rates
- Identify, graph and label underlying currency exposures and demonstrate how they are transformed using single and combined options strategies
- Compare advantages/disadvantages between hedging through use of currency forwards vs. options on FX rates
- Team Presentations: In teams, participants will identify, structure and price currency hedges using single and combination option strategies.
Case Study: You will identify and analyze a corporate debt exposure, structure a series of appropriate derivative solutions and compare hedging results.
Hedge Interest & Currency Rate Exposures
*Indicative price
Original amount in USD:
$ 4,598