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The Banking and Corporate Finance Training Specialist
Advanced Interest Rate
Derivatives
This course can be presented in-house for you on a date of your choosing
Course Overview
This programme has been designed to provide a thorough overview of interest rate derivatives products, pricing, risk management and applications. We will use real life
case study examples to illustrate the techniques and strategies that are used by both “buy side” and “sell side”.
Participants will require laptops with MS Excel for the exercises and case studies.
The broad objectives of the programme are:
To provide a complete understanding of the properties and risk profiles of interest rate derivative products.
To provide participants with a thorough understanding of the applications of interest rate derivatives so that they have the ability to advise their clients on strategies
that may be used to meet specific hedging and trading requirements. To provide participants with a thorough understanding of pricing techniques used in
interest rate derivatives. This will give participants a good understanding of whether
prices quoted are fair. To provide participants with a thorough understanding of the risk management
processes and techniques used in interest rate derivatives. This will allow participants to explain risk reward expectations to investors and traders and better manage risks in their own portfolios.
To provide participants with a thorough understanding of the trading and hedging strategies and techniques used in interest rate derivatives. This will allow
participants to match products to their market expectations and risk profiles. To explain to participants how collateral management works through the process of
VaR, marking positions to market and margin management. This will give prime
brokers a better understanding of the role of collateral in risk reduction.
Day 1
A short recap of the properties and risk/reward profiles of interest rate derivative products? Derivative Products
Futures and Forwards STIR Futures
Bond Futures Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs)
Options
Interest Rate Options on: Swaps – Swaptions
Short Term Interest Rates Caps and Floors Options on STIR and Bond Futures
Swaps Interest Rate Swaps
Currency Swaps Overnight Index Average Swaps
Basis Swaps Inflation Swaps
Course Overview
Course Content
Course Content
Exercise for Module 1 Participants will be asked to explain the properties and risk reward profiles of a
series of interest rate derivative products.
Who might use interest rate derivatives and why? This module examines the uses of the products by both traditional fund managers and hedge funds.
Derivative Products STIR futures and FRAs
Used by hedgers to change short term interest rate risk from fixed to floating or
vice versa Used by macro hedge funds to speculate on the future direction and level of short
term interest rates Bond futures
Used by fund managers to manage duration risk and hedge against future changes
in the shape of the government yield curve Used by macro hedge funds to speculate on future direction and level of long term
interest rates and the shape of the yield curve Interest Rate Options
Used by companies, traditional fund managers, banks and hedge funds for:
Hedging of interest rate risk Directional trading
Portfolio hedging Volatility trading Income enhancement
Interest Rate Swaps Used by companies, traditional fund managers and hedge funds for:
Hedging of interest rate risk Directional trading Portfolio hedging
Curve trades Asset and liability management
Inflation swaps Used by companies to hedge against future inflation risk To trade future expected levels of inflation
Asset swaps Used by investors to access floating rate returns from fixed rate securities
Exercise for Module 2 Participants will be provided with a series of market expectations and trade
criteria and be asked to choose an interest rate derivative product to use, giving their reasons and expected outcomes over a range of interest rates at
maturity.
How are interest rate derivatives priced? This module examines pricing of the products. Futures contracts by a combination of
Supply and demand in the market Theoretical arbitrage pricing by buying the long interest rate
Selling the short interest rate Amortizing the surplus or deficit cash flows over the contract period By deriving forward rates from the interest rate swaps curve
Options using an option pricing model which requires inputs for:
Long and short term yield curves Interest rate price volatility
Time to maturity
Exercise for Module 3
Participants will be provided with a set of interest rates and volatilities and will be asked to price various products. For this exercise participants
will be given a pricing model for options but will be expected to build their own pricing model for the Delta 1 products.
Day 2
How are interest rate derivatives risk managed? Delta 1 products
VaR
Duration, convexity and DV01 Default risk, recovery rates, credit spreads and CS01
Options Delta and gamma silos for underlying interest rate risk Vega ladders for volatility risk
Theta for the impact of time decay
Exercise for Module 4 Participants will be provided with a set of interest rates, credit spreads and volatilities and will be asked to project the expected profit or loss
(risk) for various products as a result of changes in market conditions. For this exercise participants will be given a risk analytics programme
for options. For Delta 1 products they will expand the model that they built in Module 3 to incorporate “what if” scenario analysis.
Trading and hedging strategies. This module discusses how to choose a strategy to fit a market expectation.
Interest rate swaps Interest rate directional trades
Carry trades Steepeners and flatteners Butterflies
Hedging interest rate risk Converting assets and liabilities from fixed rate to floating rate
Options Directional trading Volatility trading
Spread trading Income enhancement
Exercise for Module 5 Participants will be provided with a series of market expectations and
trade or hedge criteria and be asked to choose a strategy to use, giving their reasons and expected outcomes over a range of interest rates at
maturity.
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Life cycle of a trade and collateral management including examples of mark to market. This module provides an in-depth analysis of risk and collateral
management to ensure that participants understand how risk is reduced. Trade execution
Request for quote from the buy-side
Price construction from the sell-side Mark to market for futures and interest rate swaps
Changes in interest rates Passage of time
Options
Change in interest rates Changes in volatility
The passage of time
Exercise for Module 6
Participants will choose one of the strategies from Module 5 and calculate the VaR and initial collateral requirement and haircut and then execute the
strategy. They will then mark the strategy to market and manage the collateral over these two marks. One of the marks will be for a profitable market
movement and the other for a losing market movement. They will then close the trade out and calculate the final profit or loss and manage the close out of the strategy and the return of the collateral.